Film can represent the external and internal life of humanity in ways no other art form outside of maybe comic books. Films can attempt to mimic every day life and they can attempt to mimic the imagery of dreams. The two can exist both separate or together on the silver screen. The modern giallo horror film Knife+Heart uses both worlds. The film documents a gay … Continue reading Hooptober X #4: Knife+Heart
For found footage films to really work, you have to be really out there as a filmmaker and make a bold swing. Think of a movie like Cannibal Holocaust, a film so horrific to watch and presented as actual footage that audiences thought they were watching a snuff film. Filmmaker Ruggero Deodato had to prove in court that how they did the special effects and … Continue reading Hooptober X #5: The Tunnel
The 2020 Russian film Sputnik starts off in a manner familiar to anyone who has watched a movie in a post-Alien world. Two cosmonauts in 1984 sit in a capsule ready to return home to the Soviet Union. They talk about what they’re going to do once they land. As they begin their descent, the systems fail on their capsule. One of the cosmonauts looks … Continue reading Hooptober X #3: Sputnik
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2023 It’s not fair to classify Amicus as the poor man’s Hammer, but watching The House That Dripped Blood – a misleading title as there is nary a drop of blood to be found in this anthology film – but despite some game performances from Hammer regulars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (as well as Denholm Elliot and Ingrid Pitt) … Continue reading Hooptober 10.0 – The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2023 Consider this a public service. I am going to waste as few words as possible on the dreck that is Dracula 3000, a quickie straight to cable cash grab that is exactly what you think it is: Dracula in space. The actual Dracula, he with the goth cape and frilly shirt. In space. In the year 3000. Fighting Casper … Continue reading Hooptober 10.0 – Dracula 3000 (2004)
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2023 Sometimes you sit down to watch a film and you just can’t get into it. Maybe you’ve had a bad day, maybe the tone of the piece rubs raw against whatever it is you’re looking for and you turn away. Sometimes you forget that film altogether. Sometimes, though, a sliver gets under your skin and you can’t help but … Continue reading Hooptober 10.0 – Satan’s Slaves (2017)
Cinema Dual (TEST SITE) 