*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…
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Ian Pringle is an Australian writer/director who began his career with a couple of shorts and the short feature Wronsky (1979). His first feature was The Plains of Heaven (1982) which is set in the highlands of Victoria. His follow-up to that was Wrong World (1985) which is a kind of road movie in the…
Read more Writer/Director Ian Pringle on The Prisoner of St. Petersburg and his Cult Career…
Writer/Director Michael Farkas went to USC to study film. He quickly went on the make his first feature movie Prime Risk (1985) which has become a cult movie. After Prime Risk, he spent several years developing new scripts, then moved from Los Angeles back to Washington D.C. in 1988 where he opened Infocus Communications, a…
Read more Writer/Director Michael Farkas on his Cult Movie Prime Risk
*contains spoilers I took out the apostrophe from the Halperin Brothers White Zombie in the title because I think they are just as important as The United Nations Building and the Mark Wahlberg movie Patriots Day (2016) which also copped flak from journalists who went in a tizz for dropping the apostrophe… Chicago-born director Victor…
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*contains spoilers When we talk about the early films of Canadian director David Cronenberg (1943-), most of us will immediately think of Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977), The Brood (1979) and Scanners (1981). But his first features were a couple of interesting ones made in the late 1960s and early 1970s entitled Stereo (1969) and Crimes…
*contains spoilers The screenplay for the cult end of the world movie The Omega Man (1971) is based on writer Richard Matheson’s (1926-2013) novel from 1954 – I Am Legend – a title which younger people may recognise. There have been three official adaptations of this novel and these are The Last Man on Earth…
*contains spoilers It is reported that screenwriter, and sometime director, Alan Ormsby (1943-) was inspired in the late 1960s after seeing a screening of the original Night of the Living Dead (1968) with some university friends. “Let’s do something like that,” said Ormsby after seeing the movie in downtown Miami one evening. The result would…
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