Being Film #1 for Hooptober 2025 There's a lot that goes into choosing the first movie in this marathon: do you get the requirements out of the way first? Look at runtimes? Or is it something more ephemeral? I wanted to start with the simple things that made me a fan of the genre as... Continue Reading →
Not gonna lie...time caught up with me. With the world in a seemingly irreversible nosedive, the time for horror seems both completely unnecessary, yet at the time time vital for my sanity. And so like a bloodied angel here comes the 12th annual Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, ready to take me away into darker and... Continue Reading →
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2024 Just incase you thought the sixties were only happening in the United States from a film perspective, change and rebellion was happening everywhere, particularly in Japan. Onibaba shows a very different side from what artists like Kurosawa and Ozu were doing within the confines of a studio system they... Continue Reading →
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2024 Something a little different. I thought I had reviewed this film before, and I did...15 years ago. It's been sitting on a dead blog forever, and so in the interest of preservation I present it to you here, in all its childish glory. I kid...it's pretty good if I... Continue Reading →
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2024 It's still difficult for me to reconcile the beautiful, captivating films made by Powell & Pressburger with the lurid, psychosexual menace of Powell's 1960 solo outing Peeping Tom. On the one hand, I can see the use of color, the imaginative camera movement, the exquisite framing...even the emphasis on... 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 #27 for Hooptober 2024 I've been thinking a lot about expectations, and how they impact our viewing of a film. Dark Water, the other Hideo Nakata horror film (Ringu being the first) was a film I knew a lot about, but always held off for one reason or another, thinking there would be... Continue Reading →
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2024 It's rare, but sometimes the situation just calls for a low budget yet earnest splatterfest involving Lovecraftian cephalopods who get into your body and just...incubate. Then explode your body at the first sign of danger. This was one of those times, and Hell Hole, the latest feature from the... Continue Reading →
Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2024 I can imagine The Hands Of Orlac must have been a potboiler at its time of release in 1920s Germany. Director Robert Wiene adapts Maurice Renard's novel wonderfully, showing a real sense of narrative and the dramatic in his depiction of a by now well-trod story. And for me... Continue Reading →
Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2024 We're getting to the saturation point of reviewing. 24 reviews in 23 days. I'm beat, trying to get this wrapped up so I can take on the other writing stuff I'm putting off. Luckily, the films continue to show bright spots in the genre, perhaps none more so than... Continue Reading →
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