Under The Shadow (2016)

Another spooky movie for Halloween! Directed by Babak Anvari and based upon his childhood memories of the Tehran bombings, Under The Shadow (2016) works as a solid drama that escalates into spookiness. It’s set during the Iraq-Iran conflict of the 1980s, focusing on a family living in Tehran during regular bombings, with details such as […]

Salem’s Lot (1979)

In the lead up to Halloween, watching more spooky movies this October! Salem’s Lot (1979) is based on Stephen King’s second novel and is one of my favourites of his books, setting the template for the ‘unimaginable evil in a small town’ plot he’d continuously return to (IT, Tommyknockers, Needful Things, etc). The CBS miniseries, […]

Black Christmas (1974)

Another horror flick for the spooky season! With another remake on the way (which I am interested in as its written by film critic April Wolfe), Black Christmas (1974) is a classic of the horror genre, a precursor to John Carpenter’s Halloween and the launch of the ‘slasher’ sub-genre. Even with early tropes of the […]

Blackhat (2015)

After rewatching Michael Mann’s big screen version of Miami Vice on Netflix – a film that I was underwhelmed by when I first saw it but now simply love rewatching (particularly Colin Farrell’s look and the Mogwai soundrops) – I realised that I was keen for more 2000s era Michael Mann (even with his use […]

Shock Corridor (1963)

Diving deeper into the world of director Samuel Fuller, I finally watched Shock Corridor (1963), which I remember Martin Scorsese playing clips of in his Personal Journey Through American Cinema docu-series (now on Kanopy, which this film is available to stream too). Shot over ten days in one location, this low budget thriller follows journalist […]