One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
Tag: gore
The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
Mind Games: Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor
The second feature film from Cronenberg Minor is an ambitious, challenging and flawed study of the battle to hold on to who we are.
Enter The Kingdom Of Lars Von Trier
The Kingdom, Lars Von Trier’s oddball and unsettling 1990s Tv soap opera.
The Strange World Of Coffin Joe – José Mojica Marins 1936 – 2020
Looking back at the creator of Brazil’s iconic horror movie villain.
Paging Dr Freudstein – Lucio Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery Re-Examined
The Italian gore maestro’s gothic spectacular is both grandiosely ambitious and irritatingly flawed.
The Beyond – Lucio Fulci’s Trip Into Atmospheric Ultraviolence
Lucio Fulci’s collision of Lovecraftian gothic and hardgore splatter is visually and stylistically impressive, but somewhat overrated.
Blu-Ray And DVD Round Up: October 2019
Black Gunn • The Take • The Dark Half • Skinner • Kaleidoscope • Rabid
Red Shoes, Beef Hearts And Hard Gore In Okinawa Electric Girl Saya’s New Video
Japanese extreme noise and extreme visuals collide in Okinawa Electric Girl Saya’s new short film.
Beauty And Brutality: Staring Into Eyes Without A Face
Looking back on Georges Franju’s pioneering and poetic body horror film.
Jungle Holocausts – The Murky History Of Cannibal Cinema
The story of anthropophagy on screen, from Dr X to The Green Inferno.
