There is an inherent joy in being a cinephile with wide-ranging interests in different types of films because one can easily go from watching something wholesome and endearing to something completely off-the-wall bizarre and often even morally ambiguous. One of the most fascinating films I’ve seen recently is The Skin I Live In (Spanish: La…
Category: Horror
It (2017)
You can say a fair amount about Stephen King. The prolific horror author has written a tremendous amount of books, many of them sadly being forgettable and oftentimes just dull. However, my own personal opinion tends towards believing that King has written two bona fide masterpieces that stand as great pieces of literature – The…
Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
There are very few directors who captivate audiences on a variety of sensory levels, but Mario Bava stands above everyone else in this regard. His films are incredibly beautiful and deeply meaningful. He is one of the most fascinating filmmakers of the era he helped define, and he made some truly influential films. The one…
The Premonition (1976)
Only a few days ago, I spoke very highly of the oft-neglected 1976 horror masterpiece The Witch Who Came from the Sea. It turns out that there was a film that has achieved the same kind of popular obscurity, and as part of the American Horror Project restoration, we were able to see both of…
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
In 1976, the cinematic world was shaken when Brian de Palma made perhaps his greatest film, Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King. The tale of the loss of innocence of a young woman, and how she extracts vengeance on those around her, was not necessarily a new concept to horror films, but it…
Witchfinder General (1968)
I am arguably on a bit of a Vincent Price bender at the moment. The man was amongst the greatest actors to ever live and possessed charm and brilliance in copious amounts. I knew I wanted to watch a Price film, but I wasn’t quite sure of which one. Deciding to avoid the obvious choice…
House (1977)
I was discussing House with a friend, and we came to an agreement – we aren’t entirely sure if this is a good film or a bad film but it is a film. In fact, to call it a film itself is troubling because it is more of a “thing” above all else. No one…
Train to Busan (2016)
Yesterday, the world received the heartbreaking news that George A. Romero had died. He was a cinematic icon, and he reinvented the zombie movie genre with his seminal classic Night of the Living Dead over half a century ago. In some ironic twist of fate, I found out about his death around the same time…
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Yesterday, I woke up with the most bizarre desire – I wanted to watch a film starring Vincent Price. I have been a fan of the esteemed horror icon for as long as I can remember and yet hadn’t explored his entire filmography – and the recent purchase of a box-set of his best films…
Eraserhead (1977)
One cannot think of “strange” cinema without thinking of David Lynch. While I wouldn’t say that Lynch created the surrealist genre, rather inheriting it from the likes of Luis Buñuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky, he certainly did popularize it and put his own unique spin on it that gave us the defining look that we now…
