Tag: marathon
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Hooptober 11.0 – Dark Water (2002)
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2024 I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations, and how they impact our viewing of a film. Dark Water, the other Hideo Nakata horror film (Ringu being the first) was a film I knew a lot about, but always held off for one reason or another, thinking there would be…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Hell Hole (2024)
Being Film #26 for Hooptober 2024 It’s rare, but sometimes the situation just calls for a low budget yet earnest splatterfest involving Lovecraftian cephalopods who get into your body and just…incubate. Then explode your body at the first sign of danger. This was one of those times, and Hell Hole, the latest feature from the…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Hands Of Orlac (1924)
Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2024 I can imagine The Hands Of Orlac must have been a potboiler at its time of release in 1920s Germany. Director Robert Wiene adapts Maurice Renard’s novel wonderfully, showing a real sense of narrative and the dramatic in his depiction of a by now well-trod story. And for me…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Oddity (2024)
Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2024 We’re getting to the saturation point of reviewing. 24 reviews in 23 days. I’m beat, trying to get this wrapped up so I can take on the other writing stuff I’m putting off. Luckily, the films continue to show bright spots in the genre, perhaps none more so than…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Fog (1980)
Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2024 No one made horror like John Carpenter. It wasn’t just the man himself (though lord knows he plays a HUGE part); it’s the tight-knit group of collaborators. I can’t imagine watching something like The Fog without the singular cinematography of Dean Cundey, or the editing of Tommy Lee Wallace,…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire (1971)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2024 Sometimes a film is so generic, so typical of its genre trappings without standing out there’s very little to write about. I’m actually kind of curious as what the two critics on the audio commentary for Riccardo Freda’s The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire would talk about, because…