Tag: 1980s
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Hooptober 11.0 – Children Of The Corn (1984)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2024 I remember the marketing for Children Of The Corn when I was a kid. The commercials were absolutely terrifying, and at 11 all I knew about Stephen King was that he was “The Master of Horror”. I don’t think I started reading his work yet, but when I did…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Gothic (1986)
Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2023 Having finally felt like I caught on to Ken Russell’s particular and peculiar wavelength, I called an audible and went back to a film I saw as a teenager and never revisited. Gothic purports to dramatize the night that Lord Byron, Dr. John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley and, of…
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Hooptober 10.0 – The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2023 Man, Ken Russell is naughty, huh? I mean, yeah…I knew this in theory have seen The Devils, but maybe his predilection for the excesses of every appetite was maybe limited to the type of story being told? Uh, no, and that’s a good thing. The Lair of the White…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Dead Ringers (1988)
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2023 I think the biggest mystery of Dead Ringers is how it didn’t win ALL the awards, especially for Jeremy Irons. I’ve always held the film at arm’s length, admiring its execution but getting precisely what I wanted from a Cronenberg movie. Well that was then and now I’m older…
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Hooptober 10.0 – Psycho II (1983)
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2023 “Pick a film from the year you turned 10” they said. Easy enough. I had been meaning to get to Psycho II for more years than I can remember. For years it had been been the subject of reconsiderations; cries of “underrated” and “hidden gem” being floated about with…