Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2025 Is this the first time we're covering a film that we already covered on the podcast? Yes, but in this case I wasn't there for Episode 32 which focused on the films of Karyn Kusama, so The Invitation was a new experience for me. And now having watched it,... Continue Reading →
Being Film #21 for Hooptober 2025 As we roll into the last third of Hooptober 2025 the reviews are once again going to get slimmer. Horror is exhausting, y'all, and man can't live on blood and gore alone. Thank goodness for Mike Flanagan, who is still batting 1000 after catching up with Before I Wake,... Continue Reading →
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2025 We continue a run of beautifully shot films that pack in a load of subtext under a veneer of horror. Although in the case of The Untamed, that horror comes from the action of its primary characters as they wrestle with their sexual appetites and the violence the repression... Continue Reading →
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2025 The full weight of history lies just under the surface of Demon, the stunning final film from Marcin Wrona, who tragically took his own life during the film's run at the festival circuit. With no jump scares and little in the way of violence or gore, the film manages... Continue Reading →
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2024 What a delight. I wasn't aware of just how much I needed a breath of air, some light after mainlining one dour note of horror after another over the course of the month. So thank you 1920 for being borderline unwatchable with no english subtitles on any services (both... Continue Reading →
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2024 What a beautiful, messy, sloppy charmer of a film. ON the one hand, I can see what both the average movie goer - even the casual Coppola fan - would be put off by Twixt, the maestro's 2011 "return" to horror. I can also see how those fans who... Continue Reading →
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2024 I'm not going to try and change your mind and say that Insidious: The Last Key is a great movie. The fourth entry in a franchise series is rarely its best. But what I will submit to you is this: by consistently changing up the main baddie (this one... Continue Reading →
Being Film #9 for Hooptober 2024 What do you do when there's no more story to tell? Go back to the beginning, of course, and that's where Leigh Whannell heads for his directorial debut in Insidious: Chapter 3. It's clear from the start where Whannell's heart lies wit regards to his characters, and if that... Continue Reading →
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2024 Three years later everyone returns to continue the adventures of the Lambert family and their connection to The Further in Insidious: Chapter 2, picking up right where the original left off. It has a gigantic hurdle in figuring out how to stay fresh when you have to out of... Continue Reading →
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2024 I'm ashamed it took this many years to realize how close the phrase "inside of us" looks like the title of Insidious, the first holy shit crackerjack film in the now-ended franchise from James Wan and Leigh Whannell creators of the Saw phenomenon. I was never a big fan... Continue Reading →
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