Horror Movie Reviews | Picturenose

The Wicker Man (1973)

Jul

2011

‘It is I who will live again…not your damned apples!’ Another one that I have had a hankering to write about for some time – it’s doubtful whether I will be able to add anything new to the discussion of Robin Hardy‘s seminal, Anthony Schaffer-scripted study of a heathen community that starts out as an ...

Los ojos de Julia (Julia’s Eyes) (2010)

Jul

2011

Eyes of the beholder… Blindness has always been intriguing to artists, and especially filmmakers. Approached in very different ways in films such as The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003), Blindness (2008) or Jian Gui (2002) (as well as its American remake The Eye (2008)), the problem comes back in Guillem Morales’ horror Los ojos de Julia ...

Српски филм/Srpski film (A Serbian Film) (2010) 19

Jun

2011

‘Ah, a perfect Serbian family.’ Things have come to a pretty pass when I find myself agreeing, even to a certain extent, with Mark Kermode, but A Serbian Film (2010), by first-time director Srđan Spasojević (who co-wrote it with Aleksandar Radivojević, a Serbian horror film critic who penned the screenplay for Tears for Sale (2008)), is a film unlike ...

Haute tension (Switchblade Romance) (2003) 3

Jun

2011

A twist too far As promised, then, my third review exploring the recent (and, until recently, overlooked by myself) French horror New Wave – of the films that I have touched on thus far, Haute tension (Switchblade Romance) (2003) by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010)) is far and ...

Martyrs (2008) 13

Jun

2011

Hereafter horrors Seriously, though, it’s kind of annoying to me, describing myself as a film (and particularly a horror film) buff as I do, that I am only now catching on to the fact that there has been a remarkable horror renaissance taking place in France over the past few years, as I indicated in ...

À l’intérieur (Inside) (2007)

May

2011

Bloody terrifying Now then, I am going to have to tread real careful with this one – I saw it just yesterday with my very good friend Nick, a chap with whom I grew up and have always shared a particular taste for the very best in macabre cinema. Please see my 10 Best Horror Films ...

Red Riding Hood (2011)

Apr

2011

Don’t bother going down to the woods today… Agata is less than enchanted with the latest riff on a children’s classic. After we’ve been flooded by a overflow of vampire movies, are modern versions of classic children’s tales the next big thing? I do so hope not, as I do not want to see all ...

La casa muda (The Silent House) (2010)

Apr

2011

Home: Where the horror is Didn’t I say it would happen? Following its absence from cinemas for some time, since The Blair Witch Project first reduced us to shivering wrecks, way back in 1999, the POV/first-person horror flick is now back with a vengeance. Following [Rec] (2007) and [Rec] 2 (2009) by fear masters Jaume ...

Wake Wood (2011)

Apr

2011

Dead again Agata seems none-too impressed with the return of Hammer, house of horror: A year after the tragic death of their eight-year-old daughter, a grieving couple gets the unique opportunity to spend three more days with their lost loved one. Of course, hanging out with dead people is never exactly a great idea…

Dead of Night (1945)

Apr

2011

Refined refrigeration The ‘compendium’ horror film was at its most popular during the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, when Amicus ruled the form. While Freddie Francis’s excellent Tales From the Crypt (1972) had a great deal to do with me discovering the joys of horror, the genre oddity had in fact reached its apogee nearly ...

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Mar

2011

‘Fetch him back! Let him not go!’ It’s funny; following my 10 Best Horror Films post (which has since become Picturenose’s most popular by a country mile, thanks fans), fright classics that should probably and properly have been on my original list keep nagging at me. It was probably for this reason that I said ...