Being Film #19 for Hooptober 2021 We're so busy with the spectacle of shared universes and CG indistinguishable from reality that we forget the lessons of our monsters. Japan hasn't, and Shin Godzilla is a reminder of the power the most famous kaiju in the world has in holding a mirror to the nightmares of... Continue Reading →
Being Film #18 for Hooptober 2021 There's no such thing as an objective review, but I don't know another way to differentiate my thoughts on the new Shudder exclusive The Boy Behind the Door. I can watch this film and see how well executed it is. The performances are uniformly excellent, the direction is super... Continue Reading →
Being Film #17 for Hooptober 2021 For a director with some many bonafide horror classics under his belt, including one of the greatest horror films of all time, Tobe Hooper got a bit of a bad break. By the time the 90s arrived he was relegated to smaller and smaller films with little opportunity to... Continue Reading →
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2021 You'd think after so many years of being in the public consciousness as well as the insane meme-machine that is the 2006 remake with Nicolas Cage that I would know what I was in for with The Wicker Man. Ladies and gentlemen...I was not. What director Robin hardy and... Continue Reading →
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2021 The new Candyman is a lot of things. Reboot, sequel...sure. But it's also a clever, brutal investigation into the nature of narrative. So much of a story is shaped by who tells it, who owns it. Watching Nia Dacosta take the original story and twist it into not only... Continue Reading →
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2021 After a rough week I decided I needed a break for all the modern gore and guts and decided to turn to a campy favorite I hadn't seen in a while. William Castle was maybe known more for his gimmicks to pack theaters than the quality of his films,... Continue Reading →
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2021 We've had several vampire films where the theme of empowerment was front and center, so I'm surprised it took this long to get a film that grounds that in the framework of traditional gender and marriage roles. I'm doubly surprised that Jakob's Wife not only uses this framework well,... Continue Reading →
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2021 Another day, another horror debut from someone who went on to bigger and better things. This time it's writer/director Christopher Smith, whose Triangle was a sweet little mindf--k of a film I need to revisit. Despite a game cast in Franka Potente Sean Harris, Creep (not to be confused... Continue Reading →
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2021 It's a super low-budget reworking of a zombie idea by two film students that is about plague carrying rats that infect the city and turn people into ravenous were-rats that's also a commentary of gentrification. Sound good? What if I told you those two students were Jim Mickle and... Continue Reading →
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2021 Horror proves time and again to be a great testing ground for talent. The debut from writer/director/editor Damien Mc Carthy, Caveat is a tense and frightening low-budget film that may feel a little like a short film concept stretched to feature length, but there is more than enough meat... Continue Reading →
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