10 Years of It Follows: The Film That Made Me a Horror Fan
I grew up in a period of bad horror movies. I used to think I didn’t like the genre because...
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The Daniel Craig Era of James Bond Never Got The Gunbarrel Right
If there’s an overused word in common parlance I hate it’s ‘iconic’. Apparently everything is iconic these days. But the...
For Better and Worse, The X-Files Movie is Exactly Like the Show
Early on in The X-Files movie, Mulder is seen urinating on an Independence Day poster. It’s Chris Carter delivering a...
Evil Dead and Evil Dead Rise Have Prologue Problems
Evil Dead might be the best horror franchise. No other is as consistently strong. All its contemporaries have huge dips...
Is Dario Argento’s 1993 American Giallo ‘Trauma’ Better Than Its Reputation?
There’s some debate to when Dario Argento’s prime period ends. The beginning is simple: his 1970 directorial debut, The Bird...
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the Weirdest James Bond Film
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a very strange film. As it’s own horror movie it’s weird, but as...
What Does the Lost Footage Add to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet?
David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is one of my favourite films. It’s a remarkable piece of work, one I vividly remember...
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 30: A Melodrama with a Monster Problem
Frankenstein is one of the most adapted pieces of literature, with seemingly endless film versions. We’re getting two more high-profile...
An Ode to my Favourite Ambient Sound Effect, Found in Alien, Blade Runner, & Star Wars
Alien. The 1979 horror masterpiece by Ridley Scott, one of the most acclaimed horror films of all time; a truly...
The Superior European Cut of The Shining Needs to be Protected
Region-locking has been the bane of many a film fan and physical media collector for decades, but with 4K Ultra-HD...
