The Gory Death of Found Footage: Has Interconnectivity Killed Found Footage?
Ed told Nick and I that we’d been asked to review a horror film. I was excited. They didn’t share my excitement. Instead, the following advice was offered: "Look for the positives." The film we were asked to review wasn’t a studio film and was clearly a ‘passion project’ so I set myself up, notebook in hand, and my positive pen (a blue pen*) ready to scribble down thoughts. My notepad is still empty. I won’t be unnecessarily negative about the film and I won’t go so far as to
Stephen King: Bastardo Terribile
In the introduction to Pet Sematary Stephen King says it’s the most frightening book he’s ever written. When he read it back, he was horrified. He put it in a drawer like an old letter you never want to see again but can’t part with and carried on writing stories. If not for an expiring publishing contract requiring just one more book it might have stayed there, and any one of the people who read it would have led a duller, blissful, and more ignorant life. You see, Pet Semat
Suspiria (2018)
I've started contributing for the London Horror Society (which is a great place to go for news, reviews and features on the world of horror) and my first review for them was of this year's Suspiria*... Suspiria The Hermanos had a rare cinema outing together recently to see Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. First things first: this is not a piece about Argento’s film. I will attempt (and no doubt fail) to respond to this new film in its own right. Both film
Fright Fest 2018 Line-Up Day 1
So we've had a little perusal of the line-up for this year's Fright Fest and here's our take on the films on (sacrificial) offer on the opening day... Day One: Thursday 23rd August 2018 We kick off in the 80s with the UK premiere of The Ranger, Jenn Wexler’s feature directorial debut. A police officer gets fatally wounded during a drug bust on a group of punks, aforementioned punks take refuge in a cabin in the woods where they cross with a park ranger who has a connection to
The Unholy Trinity: The Wicker Man
Part three in the Hermanos of Horror Unholy Trinity is, I admit, a bit of a cop out- but it is a film that is so synonymous with Folk Horror that to omit it from our list would be criminal…or at least deserving of a place inside a giant wicker statue alongside (wonderfully named) Edward Woodward. Yes, the third film in our Unholy Trinity of Folk Horror is The Wicker Man one of the three that made up the original Unholy Trinity. Described by Cinefantastique as the Citizen Kane
The Unholy Trinity: The Witch
The second film in the Hermanos of Horror celebration of Folk Horror is 2015’s The Witch: A New England Folktale- and with a title like that it’s a fairly obvious contender for our Unholy Trinity. For the third time in a row I’m finding a way of describing a film that isn’t afraid to take its time. To say that it is a slow burning film is an understatement. Describing The Witch is tricky, there is more than a touch of The Crucible- New England and witches, accusations flying
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