No One Will Save You is an intriguing premise. A young woman isolated from society witnesses an alien invasion. She then has to fight off the invasion when the aliens possess everyone in town. Only writer/director Brian Duffield tells this story almost entirely with its visuals and little to no dialogue. It’s a bold stylistic... Continue Reading →
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2023 And so we come to end of the 10th annual Hooptober Marathon. And it had to end with a giallo, the mixed up genre I've been feverishly catching up on this year. The second I saw the title Strip Nude For Your Killer I knew I needed to see... Continue Reading →
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2023 Oh, Brian De Palma. You are a master craftsman, and you wear your quirks on your sleeves. Raising Cain features aggressive sex, men dressing as women (although this time not nearly as problematic as Dressed to Kill, although who am I to judge?), heightened scores and your signature split... Continue Reading →
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2023 I had to do it. After being enthralled with Joko Anwar's remake/prequel for Satan's Slaves, I knew I wasn't going to be able to go the month without checking out his sequel. Good things come to those who wait, but sometimes good things also come to those that don't... Continue Reading →
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2023 Oh V/H/S franchise...after so many entries have you finally gotten to the point where there's nothing left to say? The rapidly diminishing returns of the shorts, the frayed ends of commitment to the format...all of that caused me to drop out after the initial run of film that ended... Continue Reading →
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2023 NOTE: Using this opportunity to revisit a review I wrote for this film fifteen years ago, slightly cleaned up and reflecting my recent re-watch of this classic. Although now armed with with experience of many of the Master's films, prior to my first viewing of Bay of Blood, aka... Continue Reading →
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2023 Make no mistake: Tobe Hooper may be the director of Crocodile, but this is not Eaten Alive. This is a fast buck direct to video movie that normally would be utterly forgettable except that Hooper can't help but out a few flourishes that almost - and I mean almost... Continue Reading →
Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2023 Sometimes context is everything. On its own I've always liked and admired Candyman, Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" but watching it right after The People Under the Stairs I'm even more impressed. Here is a film that looks at the disparity between the haves... Continue Reading →
Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2023 Nightmare on Elm Street may have the dream logic and evil supernatural beings; The Serpent and the Rainbow may have actual magic in the shape of its depiction of voodoo, and yet it's the very real (to a point) horror and journey of its lead that makes Wes Craven's... Continue Reading →
Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2023 Having finally felt like I caught on to Ken Russell's particular and peculiar wavelength, I called an audible and went back to a film I saw as a teenager and never revisited. Gothic purports to dramatize the night that Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley and, of... Continue Reading →
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