Tag: Cinema
Review: Call Me By Your Name
A review by Bianca Garner “Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.” These words are profound and they sum up the power of…
GENRE BLAST: Things That Go Bump, III – Fantasy
They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Family Dysfunction
The Greek and I close out our series of 50 films for Halloween with a heavy dose of family values. Light relief? Not if you…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Head Fuck
Yes, these are the horror hybrids that have you scratching your head if only you could locate it. From the sublime, the bonkers, to the…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Women Scorned
I’m not here, as a man, to endorse the poor treatment of women, only to scan over how it does form a strong source of…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Funny That
What do you mean there is nothing funny about a pregnant slasher? Or zombies in a classical literary setting? Or a kind of vampire The…
Frankenstein and The Cinematic Legacy of Man as Creator
It was a “wet ungenial summer” in Geneva when the 18-year-old daughter of a political philosopher and a feminist author suggested to her lover and…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Cursed Be
There’s nothing like a possession to disrupt a wedding, or indeed a congregation. Could be supernatural, could be a curse, likely unable to explain all…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – High Tension
This will not include the movie High Tension that was featured in last year’s Halloween 50, but delivers another 5 films in the same vein…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – There Will Be Blood
To be spilled, to be spattered, to be in excess, to be shimmering even in black and white, to leave an impossible stain on your…
50 Films For Halloween '17 – Oh The Horror
Okay let’s shovel some of the shit out of the way, with a selection of five horror movies we love to hate. Awful writing, terrible…
The State Of LGBTQ+ Horror
As a gay male who loves watching horror movies, there is one thing that keeps occurring to me. I’ve noticed that there aren’t many horror…
The Silence Of The Lambs: A Truly Intelligent Blockbuster Horror Film
By Bianca Garner “Believe me, you don’t want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.” These words uttered by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) in The Silence of…
Genre Blast: Things That Go Bump, Part 2 – The Paranormal
Everybody loves the tingle when we know that a protagonist is about to turn the corner and come face to face with his or her demise, when we realize that the sicko’s phone call is “coming from inside the house,” or that maybe some unsettling event is not a dream or an aberration, but reality.
