Being Film #21 for Hooptober 2023 A couple quick ones while I'm away for an extended weekend. I'm not sure anyone was expecting the feature debut from Danny and Michael Philippou, also known as YouTube's RackRacka, to be bad - the team over the years have been great at executing high concept shorts with miniscule... Continue Reading →
Being Film #20 for Hooptober 2023 I guess he had one more return to the Scream bucket after this, but I feel like this was the real end for Wes Craven, a last stab at an original story and his assured direction. Alas, My Soul to Take has a really nifty concept, but the screenplay... Continue Reading →
Being Film #19 for Hooptober 2023 How about a very short review for something that isn't necessarily horror, but utilizes horror imagery in a way that would be imitated for decades? Häxan is a silent essay film on the history of witchcraft and devil worship written and directed by Benjamin Christensen, who uses a variety... Continue Reading →
Being Film #18 for Hooptober 2023 The marathon called for a movie that had "X" in the title, and it was the perfect time to bring out a DVD I had for yers but never watched: my beloved Humphrey Bogart taking on horror in The Return of Doctor X. My heart knew this wasn't going... Continue Reading →
Being Film #17 for Hooptober 2023 It's seemingly impossible to get a solid, close adaptation of Richard Matheson's seminal novel I am Legend, but despite some of his problems with it he and I both seem to agree that The Last Man on Earth comes the closest, not least of all because he had a... Continue Reading →
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2023 I think the biggest mystery of Dead Ringers is how it didn't win ALL the awards, especially for Jeremy Irons. I've always held the film at arm's length, admiring its execution but getting precisely what I wanted from a Cronenberg movie. Well that was then and now I'm older... Continue Reading →
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2023 "Pick a film from the year you turned 10" they said. Easy enough. I had been meaning to get to Psycho II for more years than I can remember. For years it had been been the subject of reconsiderations; cries of "underrated" and "hidden gem" being floated about with... Continue Reading →
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2023 And so I come to end of my giallo journey with Sergio Martino, whose films I started digging into back in May when I went on a spree with the Italian killer flicks. The Suspicious Death of a Minor was the last of Martino's films to really have anything... Continue Reading →
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2023 The first 10 minutes of Bones and All were excruciating, the anticipation based on the trailers and summary folding in with director Luca Guadagnino's camera to create a sense of dead that had me pause the film at least three time before the inciting "incident" that kicks the film... Continue Reading →
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2023 You probably know what to expect with a title like The Moleman of Belmont Avenue. This is a low budget horror comedy that strives to be silly but does so at the expense of characters we actually care about. I wish I liked it more: the leads (who also... Continue Reading →
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