Category: Horror
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Shocker (1989)
Childhood memories of Movie magazine, which would cover upcoming cinema releases and seeing a still of Shocker (1989), Peter Berg in a room splattered with blood, anguished and crying. I was pretty scared of horror movies back then, so that image and the poster of Horace Pinker on the electric chair creeped me out. Years… Read.
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WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
“The Demons of Demolition Derby – we’ll sell you the whole seat, but you’re only gonna need the edge.” Directed by Chris LaMartina and other collaborators, WNUF Halloween Special (2013) takes the form of a recorded piece of public access television, evidently a videotape being played as signified by the occasional bursts of fast-forwarding that… Read.
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Arachnophobia (1990)
Recorded on VHS tape from Channel 7, I repeatedly watched Arachnophobia (1990) as a child. Along with Tremors, these were horror comedies that worked best as ‘gateway horrors’ for me, at a time when I was petrified by the horror aisle in a video store due to the suggestive box covers. Both Arachnophobia and Tremors… Read.
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Eyes Without A Face (1960)
I thought about transition scenes in movies and the greater power that some can have over others. In Eyes Without A Face (1960), a French horror movie about a plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) who kidnaps women to provide a new face for his disfigured daughter (Edith Scob). There is a transitional scene where we see… Read.
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Despiser (2002)
We look back on practical effects that might have been cheap, but they become appreciated for their aesthetic value and effort, in contrast to CGI now. So it will be with dated CGI, particularly as the decades pass and what was once the new thing becomes ossified into a time-stamped style. Directed by Phillip J.… Read.
