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 →
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2023 Peter Cushing is the greatest. That's it, that's the review. You shouldn't more than the fact that Cushing stars in The Revenge of Frankenstein to immediately watch if (if you haven't already). A sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, the film that really put Hammer on the map for... Continue Reading →
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2023 Let's face it: for a streaming service Shudder has some of the best curation you can get. You might not think a film is horrific enough for a horror channel, but you're always getting something interesting. I'll take the latter any day, and Saloum is a great example of... Continue Reading →
Being Film #9 for Hooptober 2023 Every few years I come back to Mad Love, the creepy dream horror that landed Petter Lorre in front of the majority of US moviegoers and served as the final feature outing as a director for cinematic genius Karl Freund. The film holds a special place in my heart:... Continue Reading →
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2023 This wasn't part of the plan. The plan was to stick to the films I needed to get through Hooptober in one piece. But if a high level concept was going to grab me and not let go, it's the one for No One Will Save You: what if... Continue Reading →
In the aftermath of Jaws, it’s hard to count the actual number of knock offs and clones made to capitalize on the success of that film. They ranged from big budget wide release films like 1977’s Orca to low budget affairs like 1976’s backwoods effort Grizzly, a movie that featured an actual grizzly bear. Known... Continue Reading →
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2023 I've always been an advocate for the Ebert adage "It's not what a movie's about, but how it's about it." I still believe it, and on paper what The Last Voyage of the Demeter is about is pretty cool: adapting the chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula about the wreck... Continue Reading →
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