Tag: halloween

Perhaps no two words better sum up the genre of folk horror than “old” and “weird”. When Sight & Sound dedicated their August issue to…

Just when you think Dracula has been done to death (pun intended) the naughty old Count comes creeping out of his coffin yet again. Gory,…

Any film that opens with an extended nightclub scene set to “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is ripe for examination. 1983’s The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott,…

Bending Film Genres Director Andy Muschietti chooses not to play safe by mixing elements of gore and chaos with priceless bits of comedy, successfully breaking…

I think that girls who insult people are very attractive. Howard Hawks There was a type of female role in Hollywood of the 1940’s that…

There was a time, between 2004 and 2010, when Halloween belonged to one man. A frail ageing cancer patient, hellbent on giving those who do…

“DON’T you swear at me, you little shit! Don’t you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand?” This is the…

Welcome to November. That, of course, means we at Filmotomy will not be throttling you with Halloween-related film posts. That said, the range and amount…

Often I wonder with a kind of disappointed enthusiasm, what it was like to actually be around to see some of cinema’s greatest motion pictures…

Possession opens in West Berlin, the crosses implanted into the ground to commemorate the dead, and the dividing wall very much a part of the…

As noted back when we did our Year in Film series last year, there’s a general feel about 1983. That the commercial film world took…

During the course of the lead up to Halloween, my Greek wife asks me many a time – is anyone covering this movie or that…

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…