In trying to think of what contemporary American director supposedly has the most interest in what it is exactly that gets people off (at least outside the real...
Franchises last, but do its creators? The common answer would be no, with Hollywood favouring chewing up and spitting out any creative mind, yet Don Mancin...
Any slasher movie requires a great scream queen, and in the case of Curse of Chucky, it has three of them; Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti and Chantal Quesne...
In supposing that there’s entertainment to be found watching torture onscreen, a horror/thriller subgenre was created that emphasized it to “pornographic” heigh...
The feat of articulating what it is exactly that actually separates Big Ass Spider! from recent SyFy channel monster mockbusters like Atlantic Rim or the tired ...
If the found-footage concept relies on the belief that hand-held images will instantly signal reality, then it’s refreshing that The Dirties has the intelligenc...
Is it possible for images to swallow each other whole? Meaning a process in which each progressive striking composition not just tops the other, but rather summ...
Horror’s popularity amongst academics has to do with what’s often seen as signifiers of the juvenile -- ghosts, zombies and vampires standing in for our everyda...
The comparisons between Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring have been completely inevitable; as both are the new offerings from Gen X auteurs dealing with “bad girls” and their pursuit of a dream based on materialism and ergo celebrity culture. Though in putting each side-by-side brings up specificities as to why exactly each director chose their subject; that of the successive generation....
What foremost seems to unite M. Night Shyamalan’s films are belief, and furthermore faith. Due to them often dealing with the supernatural, that seems a given, being that it’s a natural part of the narrative to have the protagonist overcome initial skepticism; both as an arc and means of grounding a silly concept in somewhat of a reality. Yet Shyamalan’s films dig deeper than just that; it being an essentiality as it extends to a conflict between emotions and rationality....
