Violence Voyager (2019).
Nowhere else have I found sound design that’s made me so intensely uncomfortable as in Violence Voyager, and that’s the least of it. This nightmarish Japanese animated film has a… Continue reading "Violence Voyager (2019)."
Nowhere else have I found sound design that’s made me so intensely uncomfortable as in Violence Voyager, and that’s the least of it. This nightmarish Japanese animated film has a… Continue reading "Violence Voyager (2019)."
Side quests punctuate part two of Andy Muschietti’s effort to adapt Stephen King’s monstrous 1986 novel, detours that are superfluous in a story that’s thinner than it’s pretending to be.… Continue reading "It: Chapter Two (2019)."
Episode 34 of The Film ‘89 Podcast is our biggest episode yet as we dive headlong into an in-depth celebration and analysis of a classic western that’s celebrating its 60th… Continue reading "The Film ‘89 Podcast Episode 34 – Rio Bravo (1959) & Horror Film Special."
Dani Ardor emotes physically, viscerally, and she loses control when circumstances overwhelm her. Upon learning of a terrible tragedy, she weeps loudly, uncontrollably, in the lap of her boyfriend –… Continue reading "Midsommar (2019)."
Along with Edgar Wright’s Shaun Of The Dead (2004), Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (2002) lead the way with the resurgence of the Zombie genre during the early part of the century,… Continue reading "Danny Boyle has plans for a third “28…” zombie film."
It’s been said that Pet Sematary was Stephen King’s ‘unfilmable’ novel. This is not because of its size and scale, like The Stand or the Dark Tower series, but because… Continue reading "Pet Sematary (2019)."
The climactic conflict in Jordan Peele’s second directorial feature is a masterwork of editing, choreography, and sound composition. By the film’s conclusion, it tethers itself tightly to its mysterious, patient… Continue reading "Us (2019)."
“I admire its purity, a survivor…” Director Ridley Scott has had a long and successful career, albeit not without its fair share of ups and downs. He’s been making films… Continue reading "Alien (1979)."
For those of us for whom the 1980s was a defining decade – not because of nostalgia, but because said decade made up the bulk of our formative years –… Continue reading "Maniac Cop (1988)."
Towards the end of the 1980s, Director Wes Craven could look back at a decade which established him as one of the horror maestros of the modern age. He’d achieved… Continue reading "Wes Craven’s Shocker (1989)."