Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I'm sure you know that Amazon.com likes to take notice of what you're looking at on their site. "We noticed you were looking at such-such, we commend this..." To back track, I was curious to see how much a CD...
Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Dario Argento isn't exactly a practitioner of cinematic restraint. But few films by any director can touch the lurid, phantasmagoric spectacle of Argento's 1977 masterpiece, Suspiria . The Denver Film Society is showing a rare, archival, 35mm print of the horror film, including fiv...
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There are a multitude of ways in which we can study film: Aesthetically, technologically, culturally, economically and so forth. The value of any given film for the discipline of film studies could be seen as lying in the extent to which it will support different interpretive perspectives. A film which can be looked at both for its aesthetics and for its wider significance is arguably thereby more...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
You know, I’ve seen PLENTY of horror movies focusing on elevators. Black Out, The Shaft, there was even a lot of elevator action figuring into the old Dario Argento title Demons 2. The thought of being stuck in an elevator or falling down an elevator shaft fills more than a few people with cold dread. [...]
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last Friday night, this piece of "blood"-soaked "meat" (which is, I think, actually some kind of dyed latex product) was smeared roundly about my face and neck by a large man, who may or may not be named "Thor," dressed as a butcher, at the 2009 annual Scare for a Cure haunted house , held each year at the palatial Austin estate of video-game entrepreneur Richard Garriott,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last Friday night, this piece of "blood"-soaked "meat" (which is, I think, actually some kind of dyed latex product) was smeared bodily about my face and neck by a large man, who may or may not be named "Thor," dressed as a butcher, at the 2009 annual Scare for a Cure haunted house , held each year at the palatial Austin estate of video-game entrepreneur Richard Garriott,...
The Nigh Seen Creeder (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Exactly one year ago today, I told ya'll 'bout my favorite scary movies. Given that I just finished watched The Haunting, 'cause o' John J. Miller's recent name-check, and, well, let's just say that it's moved up a few spots in my list.Anywho, here're my favorite scary movies (watch 'em if you dare!): 1. Psycho. What can I say about Psycho that's not already been said? From its
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I'm not a Dario Argento fan, and have never been into his acclaimed 'Three Mothers' trilogy or giallos. He's always created some ghastly death scenes, but these have never been enough for me to sit through 90+ minutes of boredom. However, his Jennifer was a creepy tale, easily one of the best to air during the first season of Masters of Horror . So I was looking forward to his next entry... ***SKINLESS...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
School got hijacked by Hollywood. British filmgoers are now nostalgic for a school system unlike anything they actually experienced Blame it on too much early exposure to comics like Bunty, but I'm excited about seeing An Education, because parts of it are set in a girls' school that sounds an awful lot like the one I went to, except we played hockey instead of lacrosse. And yes, I realise the "education"...
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Halloween... Ravensdeath Archives Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 1, 2, 3 Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 4, 5, 6 Prof. Ravensdeath's Spooky Tales of Chilling Terror 7, 8, 9, 10 Spooky Tunes @ The Ghost Town Halloween Foodie @ Vanessa Oxygenvalve Grimm's Ghost Stories #31-40 @ Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng: The Dungeon Trick or Treat Witch Kit @ Neato...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975) Director/Co-Screenwriter: Dario Argento By Roderick Heath This entry is part of the Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon hosted by Kevin J. Olson of Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies. If there’s a problem with Suspiria, often...
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Inspired by last year's Mario Bava trailer twofer, it's time we take a look at some of the delights that Italy has to offer the discerning horror aficionado. Lucio Fulci is here, director of Zombi 2 aka Zombie aka "that movie where a zombie fights a shark." He also directed City of the [...]
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Italian 70s slashers, arid arthouse, a very funny movie about zombies, and a revenge action drama. With upcoming films trailer commentaries and a special "rudest movie patron of the month" report. ############## Pieces _Pieces_, Colony Theatre, part of the Cinema Overdrive grindhouse-like series. 1970s Italian slasher flick. 1970s America in a time capsule filtered through an Italian lens,...
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
In order to highlight the Italian Horror Blog-a-thon continuing until the end of the month over at Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies, this post will focus on several Italian chillers. They don't really indicate the peak of the genre or even all of its typical features, but a random sampling can still give a decent overview of what to expect. Though these are just titles that I either had hanging around
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Open today's movie listings, and you'll find as many as eight horror-fantasy flicks on screens about town. It's a glut. And talking about horror trends can be an exercise in microtrending. Within the serial-killer spree, you'll find the torture exploitation "Saw" franchise. "Saw VI" opened Friday.
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