Viewed 16th March 2025
There's legendary pieces of any media everyone wishes to see, be they great or canonical pieces of art to the likes of Nothing But Trouble, a legendary box office bomb I wanted to see just to see what on Earth happened with Dan Aykroyd's directorial debut.
What he created was a strange comedic work which can fully count as horror too, all the anxieties of a Canadian actor based on his brother Peter's story about the…
Rewatched 16th March 2025
The Scala documentary, when I first watched it, was a little disappointing as it felt like a surface depiction of its subject. This is probably not helped by the fact that part of the interest for this legendary cinema is its printed advertisements and brochures, something which you cannot recreate for a documentary.
Some of it though, which has lessened as I've warmed to Jane Giles and Ali Catterall's this time around, is that a lot…
Watching this, I realise the 1) Italian genre cinema deserves as much praiseas being great cinema in craft and that 2) Enzo G. Castellari needs to be placed in the higher tier alongside the Fulcis and Bavas. He feels like a working director, not an author of his work, and he has some inconsistent films in what I've seen, but he needs more than a cult status behind him. This is good already, don't get me wrong, as it lead…
Ah, has it really been four years since the last documentary? The last box set for the first documentary has sat proudly in my DVD case, then suddenly a new chapter appears with the addition of two extra discs on Section 3 films, which I even made a list for - letterboxd.com/coheed/list/video-nasties-section-3/ - and I can add the new set side-by-side with the original.
In terms of the documentary, its your standard structured work in the genre, although I'm significantly…
