*contains spoilers Do you know The Three Sisters? No, they are not a wholesome singing group or a Motown invention… Otherwise known as The Three Mothers, they are evil witches from the Dario Argento (1940-) movie Suspiria (1977) and its remake (2018) of the same name… They can invade your mind and give you nightmares,…
Read more The Insidious Witchcraft and Toxic Femininity in Suspiria and its remake
*contains spoilers The best Charlie Chan movie of all has a creepy association with the “unsolved” murders of The Zodiac Killer which began in San Francisco back in the late 1960s and would baffle police well into the 1970s and onwards. As they say: Everyone loves a mystery – and the Chan movies offered that…
Read more The Cult of The Zodiac Killer and Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Italian director Ivan Zuccon (1972-) is an experienced filmmaker who started his career with the short film Berenice (1997). He made several other short films before his interest in the American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft turned his mind to create horror movies related to that writer’s stories. His early features which were shot on video…
Read more Director Ivan Zuccon on H.P. Lovecraft and his Cult Film Career…
*contains spoilers The H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, if you want to call them that, of Italian director Ivan Zuccon (1972-) are interesting horror. There is a trio of films which I have seen and they comprise of The Shunned House (2003 shot on video), Colour from the Dark (2008) and Herbert West: Re-Animator (2017). The best…
Read more Director Ivan Zuccon’s H.P. Lovecraft Italian Style
*contains spoilers Deranged, at the time of its production, was the most accurate portrayal of the life of the Butcher of Plainfield – Ed Gein (1906-84 liver cancer), who dug up corpses and kept parts of them around his home as trophies and paraphernalia. He apparently even made furniture out of skin and bone. The…
Read more The Slightly Deranged Screenplays of Alan Ormsby (Part Two)
Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor (21 December 1976-) has been writing forever. He wrote his first screenplays while still a young teenager. He had his first screenplay Angst (2000) produced while still in his early 20s. He would also polish dialogue on the Kylie Minogue movie Sample People (2000). In fact he would earn a living as…
Read more Screenwriter Anthony O’Connor on Angst, Inhuman Resources and the Art of Creation…
*contains spoilers The James Franciscus Facial Tan Club came about in second year high school. My friends Scott and Paul were the members of clubs inscribed in my pencil case… along with The George Negus ‘I’m top shit’ Club and the Denise Marcos Orgy Club who were media figures of the day. We were fans…
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*contains spoilers Director Michael Mann (1943-) is well known for his film Heat (1995) starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro. The film is seen as so iconic, every minute of its well over two and a half hour running time has been picked to pieces – incredibly even minute by minute – in podcasts.…
*contains spoilers Coda (1987) aka Symphony of Evil aka Deadly Possession and Strangers (1991) are two films directed by South Australian director Craig Lahiff (1947-2014). The titles of his movies were often one word and the pair of movies are often described by critics as sub-Hitchcock. I think they deserve more praise than that, considering…
Read more Craig Lahiff’s Aussie Hitchcockian Double Bill (Part One)
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