Horror Movie Reviews | Picturenose

The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967) 6

May

2012

It doesn’t suck… …but I have a feeling that my very good friend and long-time fellow film lover Chris is not going to be too happy with my review of Roman Polanski‘s Dance of the Vampires (1967) (which was its original, European title). The great director, apocryphally, still considers this as his favourite work which, ...

Quatermass (1979)

May

2012

Harvest time Thought it was about time to tackle Nigel Kneale‘s singular scientist, the good Professor Bernard Quatermass who, in four novels, four TV series and four films, has exerted an enormous influence on directors as diverse as Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness (1995)), Steven Spielberg and Lars von Trier and ...

Preview: Prometheus (2012) 2

Apr

2012

Prometheus unbound? Build-ups don’t come much bigger than this. Some ten years ago, Ridley Scott, who directed the world-changing Alien (1979), the first film (and zenith) of the franchise that sank to its nadir with Aliens vs Predator – Requiem (2007), indicated that he was very keen on directing a sequel or prequel to his ...

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Apr

2012

A blinder, pure and simple Couldn’t resist it – in choosing Alan Arkin as Harry Roat Jr. from Scarsdale as one of my all-time ‘favourite’ villains in our (though I say it myself, remarkably successful) Top 10 Movie Villains post, I realised that I simply had to share my further thoughts on Terence Young‘s sublime ...

The Other (1972) 4

Apr

2012

Twins of evil? No two ways about it, this is a strange film. Acclaimed actor-turned-novelist Tom Tryon (I Married A Monster from Outer Space (1958) (film) Harvest Home (novel, itself filmed as well-received TV mini-series The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) starring Bette Davis) wrote The Other in 1971, and it came to the ...

The Stone Tape (1972) 2

Jan

2012

Ghost in the machine “A remarkably creepy and subtle evocation of dread, from a typically nuanced Nigel Kneale script. What if ghosts are simply ‘data’ that need to be better categorized? That’s just what a team of computer specialists, on the trail of a new recording medium, attempt to do when they discover that the ...

Theatre of Blood (1973)

Jan

2012

Poetic justice I was feeling nostalgic again, nostalgic for the kind of horror films with which I grew up, which were hugely influential in the growth of my celluloid obsession and on which I have previously opined – with that in mind, I thought I would share my thoughts on a film that I consider ...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

Dec

2011

Pain in the neck In part four of the Twilight saga we learn something about vampire procreation, Edward’s lack of paternal instinct and wolf talk, and we pay a high price for the little information that we get.

600 Not Out: The Thing (2011)

Nov

2011

A good or bad thing? Ladies and gentlemen, I approach this post with much gratitude and more than a little trepidation. Firstly, on the occasion of this, our 600th contribution to date, a huge ‘thank-you’ from myself and partner-in-crime Colin to all the faithful visitors who have been with us since Picturenose started, back in ...

John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980) 2

Nov

2011

Closing in Yours truly was in a very good mood last night; for one, it was Halloween, and anyone who knows me at all will tell you that, given my predeliction for the macabre in all art forms, it is one of my favourite ‘holidays’ in the long year. But that wasn’t all – the ...

A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2

Oct

2011

‘Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.’ ‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’ – this was the very phrase that sprang to mind when I was wondering which film to write about next and, as those who have seen Stanley Kubrick‘s seminal A Clockwork Orange (1971) or read Anthony Burgess‘s equally brilliant novel (of which ...