With the blending of digital reality and intimacy through the modern camcorder and mobile phone and the frenzied pace and jump scares of horror, the ‘found footage’ subgenre dominates the field. On the 4th of January 2021, you can experience the film which started it all. [REC]They released it in 2007,…
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WORLD ON A WIRE ***** West Germany 1973 Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder 204 mins You may not have heard of WORLD ON A WIRE but its themes and its influence on films like THE MATRIX, BLADE RUNNER and tv series like WESTWORLD can be seen. Beautiful looking sets that would make Stanley Kubrick weep with jealousy…
THEY LIVE ***** USA 1988 Dir: John Carpenter. 95 mins Carpenter’s most enduring sci-fi movie is this frighteningly prescient Reagan-era political satire, following drifter Roddy Piper, who believes in America and is happy to follow the rules. He joins a working homeless community incorporating Carpenter regulars George “Buck” Flower and…
PRINCE OF DARKNESS **** USA 1987 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Considered the middle part of an “apocalypse” trilogy bracketed by THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, this was Carpenter’s return to low budget filmmaking after several years of working for Hollywood studios. A mature and unfashionable 80’s…
A BLACK VEIL FOR LISA **** Italy / West Germany 1968 Dir: Massimo Dallamano. 95 mins A pre-Argento giallo influenced by Hitchcock, the German “krimi” cycle and American film noir, this largely lacks the more overtly horrific elements that would rapidly redefine the genre in the wake of THE BIRD…