Haven't seen this one for ages and it's still just as friggin' nuts and bizarre as i remember it.
Take a typical giallo killer murdering young girls, add a sleepwalking Jennifer Connelly who can communicate with insects, bung in some discussion of how the forensic study of bodily decomposition can help in criminal investigations.
Stir well.
Then add a Scottish Donald Pleasence, a razor wielding chimp, a deformed kid, marinade overnight in a pit of putrid body parts then top…
Mafu Cage
Two sisters live alone in a old house, one played by Lee Grant (Omen 2) is the serious but stable sibling, whereas the other played by Carol Kane (When a stranger calls) is totally insane.
Their father was an anthropologist studying African culture but after he died the
sisters are left in the family home that is filled with all his African artifacts, centred around a room overgrown with plants and containing a giant cage where Kane keeps…
Watched Midsommar the directors cut and i can see why it's a divisive film, it's long and for a lot of the time not a lot happens in terms of bloodletting or overt horror.
But for me it worked, it focuses on loss and relationship breakdown and the way cults use this to bring vulnerable people into their groups.
I find pagan rituals, the worship of nature and the use of natural psychedelic substances in ancient religion fascinating, so the…
Suspiria 2018
Obviously there wasn't going to be an attempt to recreate the atmosphere, but given the arty direction it seemed to be going for i was interested to see what the director would do with the basic premise.
For the most part it's a very well made slow burn arthouse film, cinematography is really well done and there is a thread of unease running throughout that is quite palpable.
Beginning with a guttural death rattle in the first scene…
