Category: Supernatural
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The City Of The Dead (1960)
It’s a simple but effective trick. Works for rock shows, and it certainly works for old, black-and-white horror movies. If you don’t have the budget for set design, just pump in the smoke machine! The City Of The Dead (1960; aka Horror Hotel) gets a lot of atmospheric effect through its one major street set… Read.
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Sweet Home (1989)
As a Japanese horror movie, Sweet Home (1989) has a cult following because it was released with a tie-in horror computer game from Capcom, which became the inspiration for the original Resident Evil video game. As an entry in director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s filmography, it’s different to the disturbing, eerie horror movies that would make his… Read.
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Night Train To Terror (1985)
“Is there anything else I can get for you, Mr. Satan?” Night Train To Terror (1985) was on Mubi for a long time and I always passed it by, until it left Mubi. When I finally wanted to watch it for the spooky movie season, it was only available on Tubi (using the US settings).… Read.
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Séance (2000)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa knows how to make a ghost an eerie presence within a frame. Simple and effective in design. A blur where a face should be. An identifying colour in their clothing. Something that registers the eye eventually as they emerge from a shadow or appear in the visual dimension. They don’t seem aggressive in… Read.
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Something In The Dirt (2022)
I really dug Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless. And while I liked Synchronic fine enough, their screen presence as actors – not just as the co-directors, writer and cinematographer of their projects – is an underrated element. Something In The Dirt (2022) was something Moorhead and Benson made during the pandemic, basically filming… Read.
