Horror
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THE TURIN HORSE (Bela Tarr, 2011, Hungary) – The Wind
Bela Tarr’s last film could just as easily be retitled ‘The Wind’. Labels such as slow cinema insist we look at films in a certain way but here is another theory that seems to have run its course, duly causing a backlash. There is no denying for a film lasting over two hours and thirty Continue reading
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WORLD WAR Z (Dir. Marc Forster, 2013, US) – The Infected
If John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids influenced the post apocalyptic trajectory of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s science fiction-horror 28 Days Later (2002) then it is a novel which reaches back to the past and affects the present day consciousness of Hollywood cinema. For a long time, the undead was fragmented from the Continue reading
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MATINEE (Dir. Joe Dante, 1993, US) – Cold War Creature Comforts
The A Bomb Joe Dante is by far the most mischievous of the filmmakers spawned by exploitation maestro Roger Corman. Unlike his contemporaries Dante has made fewer films. His oeuvre is characterised by a darkly satirical edge and his nightmarish representations of American suburbia have run contrary to the mainstream. Consider the way he smuggles Continue reading
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ANKAHEE / THE UNSPOKEN (Dir. Amol Palekar, 1985, India) – The Gaze of Death
Horror is a genre absent from much of Hindi cinema and whilst not much work has been carried out to study its development as a genre and why it continues to operate in a state of terminal decline and critical derision (not surprising given its Continue reading
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