Favourite Directors - David Lynch, Ari Aster, M.Night Shyamalan, David Cronenberg.
Currently watching a lot of Folk Horror.
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Color Out of Space 2019
What do you get when you cross H P Lovecraft and Nicolas Cage? The answer is (obviously) this very interesting film that is very probably quite brilliant.
I have been aware of Lovecraft since my RPG days in the 1980’s playing “Call Of Cthulhu” so was quite ready for the brand of unknowable totally alien cosmic horror and madness that this film would unleash, but this film is more than just dread and disaster, it actually tells a very good…
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The Empty Man 2020
Some films are just too ambitious for their studios, The Empty Man is one of those films - released during Covid to zero fanfare and then disappeared only to be rediscovered on streaming (the only medium it can be viewed on) and developing a sizeable cult following.
I must admit I am VERY late to the party, nearly five years late, it was a film I was aware of and to be honest the first minute or so of the…
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The Wicker Man 1973
There’s not a lot I can say about this film that’s not already been said - it’s the grand-daddy of all “Folk Horror” Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward give career best performances as the avuncular Lord Summerisle & the dry puritanical Sgt Neil Howie, the atmosphere is constantly tense and it feels like Howie is in a waking nightmare swept along by events he can’t quite comprehend, but even though he is the protagonist his character is not likeable, he us…
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Cuckoo 2024
Good heavens that was a blast, edge of seat stuff from the ambiguous beginning to the ambiguous ending, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Cuckoo sees protagonist Gretchen played by Hunter Schafer in a flawless performance move with her Father, step Mother and half sister to Germany where they enter the world of Herr Koenig who had hired Gretchen’s father & step mother to design a new resort. Koenig is played to creepy arch perfection by Dan Steven’s, think 70’s Bond…
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