Tag: halloween
A Blood-Splattered Mess: The Enticing Failure of 1983’s The Hunger
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,…
Watch, Dissect, Reflect – It: Chapter Two
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…
Feminism and The Fog (1980)
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…
The Tragedy of John Kramer, and the Power of Jigsaw in the Saw Franchise
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…
The Horror Genre Shutout at the Academy Awards
“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…
Full Coverage of Filmotomy’s Horrifically Huge ‘Film Road to Halloween’ Series
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…
Film Road to Halloween: The Horror Masterpiece that is The Exorcist (1973)
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…
Film Road to Halloween: There’s No Film Quite Like Possession (1981)
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…
Film Road to Halloween: Slaying Alive – 15 Horror Movie Characters That Made Our Guts Twist With Worry
Horror films over the last 100 years have churned out the demise of so many characters. Some we couldn’t give a fuck about, perhaps wanted…
Film Road to Halloween: Angst (1983) Will Leave You Creepily Shaken And Stirred
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…
Film Road to Halloween: 10 Films from the last 5 years to Darken your Halloween
During the course of the lead up to Halloween, my Greek wife asks me many a time – is anyone covering this movie or that…
Film Road to Halloween: The Wolf Man (1941)
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…
Film Road to Halloween: The Uninvited (1944)
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…
Film Road to Halloween: Wounds (2019)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 2 days to…
