Long hailed, or perhaps cursed, as the last great Italian horror film, Dellamorte Dellamore reveals itself an altogether even rarer gem - a perfect comedy horror, especially on re-watch. (A first viewing is almost inevitably disappointing, as the film never quite gives you what you expect, but that's its secret charm.) As different as could be from other, equally rare perfect comedy horrors (The Cat and the Canary, The Old Dark House, An American Werewolf in London, Gremlins, Scream), Dellamorte…
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The Shining 1980
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
(Thoughts on re-viewing The Shining - 4K blu-ray re-watch)
A sense of a world that's somehow wrong creeps in from the start of the film - or rather, it swoops on the distorting wide lens and dizzying angles following, then overtaking a tiny car against this empty, somehow in vitro landscape, all to the sound of that demented electronica cover of Dies Irae and titles out of a Z-grade blue movie. Something must be wrong, indeed.
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