It’s Monday night which can mean only one thing. From the annals of terror and the crypt of classic horror comes tonight’s feature: ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ This is a movie which is almost a century old, yet remains one of the most essential visual pieces of its era. For me, it is up [...]
Even if you haven’t seen ‘The Bad Seed’ yet, its influence has definitely touched you. It was the prototype for a subsequent 50 years of ‘evil child’ movies and belied the apparent innocence and puritanical nature of the era. This piety and sense of over emphasised propriety is something that is tackled in the movie, [...]
I am not someone who has ever enjoyed the antics or the existence of clowns. I have never found them entertaining in the slightest. Nor did I ever prescribe to the strange cultural occurrence which suddenly proclaimed clowns as ‘scary’ and an almost fashionable thing to publicly display an aversion to. They never had any [...]
On my never ending quest to source out alternative release posters to satisfy a curious and indefinable desire to, well source out alternative release posters, I stumbled upon these beauties for Dario Argento’s classic Giallo feature ‘Four Flies on Grey Velvet’. This is one of Argento’s most powerful and Hitchcockian thrillers with an absolutely fantastic [...]
Polish film posters are notoriously bonkers; their ‘Alien’ poster in particular is one of the most well known examples of the nonsensical interpretations that exist out there. I can appreciate that a lot of the time the artists were working on the basis of a very vague description, having not actually seen the films in [...]
Sid Haig is one of the most underused and marvellous actors in cinema history. He is a towering and inimitable force onscreen and has appeared in some of the best (and worst) exploitation and horror features of the last 50 years. If all you know of Haig is his performance as Captain Spalding in House [...]
Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ (AKA: M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is not a horror film in the sense of ghouls, murderous, hideous malformations from beyond the grave or cannibalistic, highly infectious, leprous creatures of the night. M is a different form of terror altogether. Fritz Lang’s first spoken feature was to become one of [...]
There’s a real treat in store for you tonight. One of my personal favourite films starring one of my favourite actors of all time. The inimitable Vincent Price features in ‘The Last Man on Earth’, the adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel ‘I Am legend’ which was later remade in 1971 as ‘The Omega Man’, [...]
After last week’s teaser trailer, here’s the full trailer for the (possibly) upcoming Human Centipede 2. Well, we might not be able to see it in the cinema in the UK or buy it on DVD but I’m sure we’ll all find some way of seeing it.
Considering it is the birthday of one of my all time favourite directors (of any genre), I wanted to take the opportunity to run through a few of my favourite creations from the genius that is Dario Argento. Argento movies first came to my attention in my mid teens when I was still a fledgling [...]