Looking back at the life and work of one of the iconic figures of British horror film criticism.
Tag: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Sight And Sound’s Greatest Films – The Next Batch
The Greatest Films Of All Time saga rumbles on with the release of the full top 250 titles.
Friday 13th: The Franchise’s Sickest Moment
Odd coincidence or a twisted joke? You decide.
Why the Sight and Sound Poll Doesn’t Matter – And Why It Does
Thoughts from 2012 on ‘the greatest films of all time’ and the odd outliers of the Sight and Sound poll that year as we await the 2022 results.
Would You Wish Your Servant To Read This? The Elitism Of Moral Panics
The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.
In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Looking Back At Eraserhead
David Lynch’s exploration of dreams, nightmares and the fears of fatherhood remains as startling an experience now as it ever was.
The British Censor’s Chainsaw Massacres
How the dictatorial British film censor James Ferman became an obsessive buzz kill in the 1980s.
Attack Of The Space Vampires – The Story Of Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper’s infamous trash class remains one of the most compellingly weird films of the 1980s.
