New French Extremity darling Pascal Laugier’s 2018 film Incident in a Ghostland presents thematic continuance of some elements introduced in his 2008 film Martyrs. Both films feature violent attacks on a family and focus heavily on the killing, torture and abuse of young females, including children and teenagers, and the long lasting effects trauma.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Schocktoberfest 2019 Update
The Night Sitter |
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Shocktoberfest 2019 Begins! Rabid (1977) [Cronenberg]
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Twenty First Century Horror Standouts (Another list of... Post)
Reddit user ScarletBegonias79 posted a list of the top horror films of the 2010s and asked users for theirs. I decided to expand mine into a blog post.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Climax (2018) [Psychedelic, Experimental]
Director: Gaspar Noé
Writer: Gaspar Noé
Biographical note: I was ill in 2010. Much of that year I was paralyzed. I started this blog because I stopped sleeping and would stay up all night long, watching horror movies. One of those movies was Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void (original, 2010 post here). Noé provided a handy spoiler in his own movie when a character summarizes existence after death according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead as foreshadowing of what was to come next. Ten years later, in his 2018 film Climax, Noé provides no such road map, leaving the viewer to wander through his psychedelic maze with no directions other than their own. It was an intense trip.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
The Whip and the Body (1963) [Horror Romance]
Writing Credits Ernesto Gastaldi, Ugo Guerra, and Luciano Martino
There is no doubt after watching The Whip and the Body why Mario Bava was considered a master in the use of light, color and shadow! This 55 year old film is beautiful to watch. Replete with exterior shots of sunrises and sunsets through a gray sky and over a turbulent ocean and desolate beach and moody internal shots where the subjects move through a spectrum of color with each step, this film is a treat for the eye.Sunday, August 4, 2019
Viy (1967) [Folk Horror]
Directed by Konstantin Ershov & Georgiy Kropachyov
Writing Credits Konstantin Ershov & Nikolay Gogol (story) (as Nikolai Gogol), Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko
Based on a novel by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, Viy explorers the power of faith and belief in mythology through the efforts of a young seminary student struggling to fight a vengeful witch whose path he has inadvertently crossed.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
The Theta Girl (2017) [Sci Fi, Action, Horror]
Director: Christopher Bickel
Writer: David Axe
Last Friday evening, a friend sent this text, “Going to see this tonight at a Burlesque Club called Le Chat Noir. Right up your alley.” with the link to the trailer I knew she was right before it was halfway through and I needed to watch this movie! Luckily, it is streaming on Amazon Prime and The Statesboro Psychotronic Film Society gave it a watch the next day.
Writer: David Axe
Last Friday evening, a friend sent this text, “Going to see this tonight at a Burlesque Club called Le Chat Noir. Right up your alley.” with the link to the trailer I knew she was right before it was halfway through and I needed to watch this movie! Luckily, it is streaming on Amazon Prime and The Statesboro Psychotronic Film Society gave it a watch the next day.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Head Count (2018) [teenagers are horrible]
Director: Elle Callahan
Writers: Elle Callahan (story), Michael Nader
Better than average teen, supernatural slasher that sacrifices jump-scares and violent kills for a slowly building sense of unease that catapults into an alright finale. The story is interesting and even though there is no heavy lifting to be done, the young performers are up to the task.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
The Mist (2007) [Biblical Horror]
Writing Credits (WGA) Frank Darabont (screenplay), Stephen King (novel)
Frank Darabont’s 2007 adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Mist is a great example of the rare movie that asks, “What if the God of the Old Testament were to re-emerge today?” Shortly after it begins, a terrible calamity befalls a small New England town and a group of local citizens and “summer people” find themselves struggling for survival inside the supermarket that is trapped inside an other worldly mist.
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