Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter DEADLY DIARY Mario Bava’s 1965 classic, Blood and Black Lace, is one of the earliest and most influential examples of the murderous sub-genre of Italian thrillers and horror fiction adaptations that would become known as “giallo”. Today, Bava’s reputation as a godfather of the violent and overtly erotic pictures rests […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter DEATH OR GLORY Rooted in the inherently violent and aggressively traditional world of warring Yakuza factions, Yasuharu Hasebe’s Massacre Gun is a Japanese gangster flick that not only startled audiences upon its original release in 1967, but thanks to this latest Arrow Video Blu-ray restoration, still has the ability to […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter “YOU’RE DEAD SON, GET YOURSELF BURIED” Synonymous with a series a successful and celebrated Ealing Studios releases, including Whiskey Galore, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick’s first directorial effort upon crossing the Atlantic was a Machiavellian exposé of New York City’s seedy print media underbelly. […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter CATCH ME IF YOU CAN “The body is the first fact of human existence for me… my imagery tends to be body orientated, my narratives tend to be body orientated.” David Cronenberg Cult Canadian auteur, David Cronenberg, forged an illustrious career upon a grotesque yet deeply layered bed of […]
Read MoreThey Came From Underground Worms: wriggly, slimy, gross, all acceptable adjectives when describing those bizarre non-arthropod invertebrate animals that slowly pulsate through the ground upon which we walk… but scary? Scary just doesn’t cut it when it comes to fleshy entities we accidentally step upon on a dark, sodden winter morning. Squirm, the debut feature […]
Read MoreIf the prospect of Monday morning wasn’t scary enough, have a frightful end to your weekend with the FILM IN WORDS Sunday Scare.
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