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Friday, November 30, 2012

An Appointment In Tehran

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So, two different versions of Tehran in two films in two months. The Tehran of Argo was a place of terror, of menace, of geo-politik paran...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Eighth Wonder of the World

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I was going through some of my old notebooks earlier this week looking for the review I wrote of King Kong when I was 14. I won't infl...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Bond and Back

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With apologies to Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg and Daniella Bianchi and Ursula Andress and all the other bombshells who have worn the mant...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Head in the Clouds

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Almost all movies fracture time. It's fundamental to the art of film. We're used to it now. We don't always know that they'...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Any Colour You Like

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I wouldn't be upset at all if the filmmaking model pursued by The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society were to spread. Their relative suc...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Baying at the Moon

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The Howling Reborn (2011, directed by Joe Nimziki) is what you get when exploitation filmmakers try to ride the zeitgeist. It's about a...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Night Life

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One of the things I've been noticing about some of my horror movie selections this October is a tendency among low budget horrors to de...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

A Public Service Message

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See that sticker? That's right. I voted. I vote in EVERY election, even the wee local ones. If that terrifies you (and it probably shou...

The Eyes Have It

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I have a phobia about my eyes. You know all those injury to the eye scenes in Lucio Fulci movies? Yeah? I can't watch those. It squicks...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Darkness, Take My Hand

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The HP Lovecraft Historical Society returns to filmmaking with their version of The Whisperer in Darkness (2011, directed by Sean Branney)...
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Sunday, November 04, 2012

Shameless Self-promotion: Dreams in the Bitch House edition

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I don't talk about it much here, but I'm part of the brain trust at Dreams in the Bitch House . I'm normally responsible for rec...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Writer's Block

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David Koepp's Secret Window (2004) is another avatar of the vogue for identity horror that was so popular around the turn of the millen...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Festival of Samhain

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At one point in the first act of Livid (which I wrote about a couple of days ago), there's a scene where the main characters are accost...
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Matter Over Mind

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The Boxer's Omen (1983, directed by Chih-hung Kuei) is a late-period Shaw Brothers production that sees the studio trying to adapt to ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Rats in the Walls

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The zombie apocalypse finds a different wrinkle in Mulberry Street (2006, directed by Jim Mickle). Instead of the walking dead, this film ...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Break a Leg

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Michele Soavi's Deliria (aka Stagefright, 1987) is of its time and place. It's a slasher, of course, but it's a slasher film th...

Death Becomes Her

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While I was in the moment, I had a grand old time watching The Dead Inside (2011, directed by Travis Betz). It starts as a sly comedy send...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Dream Logic

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While a certain amount of the sensibility that made Inside such a relentless horror experience is present in Livid (2011), Alexandre Bustil...

Hungry Like the Wolf

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Lobos de Arga (2011, directed by Juan Martinez Moreno) has been burdened with a couple of international titles. I prefer "Game of Wer...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Fish Out of Water

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For the last several years, I've traveled to Ypsilanti, Michigan to attend a big horror movie party. My friend who throws this party is...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Hollywood Option

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Ben Affleck's Argo (2012) takes on the Iranian hostage crisis from a clever and engaging point of view. In January of 1980, the CIA co...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Scream and Scream Again

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Entire cycles of self-referential horror movies have risen and crumbled in the years since Scream briefly revived the slasher film as crit...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Welcome to the Dollhouse

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Has there ever been a more drastic and perverse evolution of a horror movie franchise than the Child's Play movies? When most movie ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Watch and Wait

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There's a fine line between an exploitation movie and an art movie. Walking that line is a tightrope act. Sometimes, it seems to me tha...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Walk Like An Egyptian

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Mummy movies, if you'll pardon the expression, seem like they're cursed. Is there a horror sub-genre with a worse ratio of good mov...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A Wolf in the Fold

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I was discussing the new DTV movie, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012, directed by Louis Morneau) with a friend of mine while I was watch...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Shrine On You Crazy Diamond

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It's not without a certain amount of affection that I suggest that The Shrine (2010, directed by Jon Knautz) reminds me of something t...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Couple's Therapy

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Tales from the zombie apocalypse are coming from every corner of the globe these days. In truth, I'm a little bit worn out by zombies, ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Monsters and Mazes

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When Pan's Labyrinth (2006, directed by Guillermo del Toro) was first in theaters, I remember thinking that I really needed to wait a ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Shadows Out of Time

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"Novel. n. A short story, padded." -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary I have to admit that when I first saw the trail...