Tag: 2000s
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Hooptober 9.0 – The House of the Devil (2009)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2022 After my positive experience with X, I decided to travel back to the beginning and take another look at The House of the Devil, West’s first feature from 2009. I probably hadn’t see the film since about that time, and although the years have certainly been kinder, my initial…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2021 Back when I was a teenager there were these things called video stores. But I didn’t live in the most urban of areas so instead we would rent our VHS tapes from pharmacies and gas stations. Sometimes these places didn’t have the most popular movies, especially in the horror…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Suicide Club (2001)
Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2021 There really is nothing like a Sion Sono film. It’s too easy to slip the “gonzo” tag onto any artist whose work straddles the line of garrish cartoons and meta commentary, over the top gore covering everything like…well, gore. The fact that Suicide Club still hasn’t been upgraded to…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Mortuary (2005)
Being Film #17 for Hooptober 2021 For a director with some many bonafide horror classics under his belt, including one of the greatest horror films of all time, Tobe Hooper got a bit of a bad break. By the time the 90s arrived he was relegated to smaller and smaller films with little opportunity to…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Creep (2004)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2021 Another day, another horror debut from someone who went on to bigger and better things. This time it’s writer/director Christopher Smith, whose Triangle was a sweet little mindf–k of a film I need to revisit. Despite a game cast in Franka Potente Sean Harris, Creep (not to be confused…
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Hooptober 8.0 – Mulberry Street (2006)
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2021 It’s a super low-budget reworking of a zombie idea by two film students that is about plague carrying rats that infect the city and turn people into ravenous were-rats that’s also a commentary of gentrification. Sound good? What if I told you those two students were Jim Mickle and…