hooptober10 – Page 2 – Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

October 15, 2023

Hooptober 10.0 – Crocodile (2000)

Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2023 Make no mistake: Tobe Hooper may be the director of Crocodile, but this is not Eaten Alive. This is a fast buck direct to video movie that normally would be utterly forgettable except that Hooper can’t help but out a few flourishes that almost – and I mean almost…

October 13, 2023

Hooptober 10.0 – Candyman (1992)

Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2023 Sometimes context is everything. On its own I’ve always liked and admired Candyman, Bernard Rose’s adaptation of Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden” but watching it right after The People Under the Stairs I’m even more impressed. Here is a film that looks at the disparity between the haves…

October 12, 2023

Hooptober 10.0 – The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2023 Nightmare on Elm Street may have the dream logic and evil supernatural beings; The Serpent and the Rainbow may have actual magic in the shape of its depiction of voodoo, and yet it’s the very real (to a point) horror and journey of its lead that makes Wes Craven’s…

October 10, 2023

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…

October 7, 2023

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…