Category: Film
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Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever? Forever, and ever So goes the lyrics for the popular ’80s balled “Forever Young” by the band Alphaville. It sums up the idea of many who wish they could remain youthful forever; to experience the world and all it has…
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Horror films of the 80s were a different breed. That’s not a statement on modern horror, horror before the 80s, or an indictment of 80s horror. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a prime example of this. In 1986 TCM2 took a deeply dark and transgressive film and turned it into a horror comedy, an odd…
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The success of Halloween in 1978 and Jamie Lee Curtis’s performance therein, coming near the end of a decade of new ground broken in the themes, content, and storytelling approaches in horror (and film in general), marked the beginning of a surge in the popularity of scream queens and a concomitant change in the portrayal…
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When you think of horror-tinged superhero movies, what comes to mind? It’s probably films like Blade, Hellboy, and Morbius, but I’d like to suggest another, much less obvious, movie to add to that list: Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Sure, Shazam himself isn’t a monster, and his world isn’t full of creepy creatures like vampires…
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I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know what to expect from Reflect. When I first heard about it, the film was described to me as a “metaphysical sci-fi thriller,” and I honestly think that was the first time I ever heard those words put together in that order. I simply had no idea what…
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I recently had the opportunity to see a screening for The Unbinding in Cincinnati, Ohio. The film officially releases on September 8th and will be available on Amazon Prime, YouTube and other streaming platforms. This review/ analysis will be spoiler free but if you’re just looking for a headline, here it is: See The Unbinding whether or…
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In perfect time for the Halloween season, we are finally looking at Mark Frost’s screenplay for John Schlesinger’s 1987 film, The Believers. IMDb summarizes the plot as: “A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.”[1] Succinct as that summary is, there…