[photopress:MIR_01666.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Poor revision
It’s always the way with horror, isn’t it? How quickly do you reveal your monster? How do you keep the scares coming once the audience knows what it’s dealing with?
It’s a problem, unfortunately, that undermines Mirrors, the remake by young French director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006)) of Geoul sokeuro (2003), [...]
[photopress:23207135.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Many of you will know that I am an unashamed Batman fan, and always have been. I was quite happy – eager, even, that my eldest son (who’s 10) should come to see it with me. For me, it’s the same thing as the Dads who drag their children of two years or so [...]
[photopress:projector_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Today’s news starts with something I found quite surprising. In this Associated Press piece on backstage.com, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight (2008) is compared (favourably) to one Mr J Nicholson’s turn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). They even go so far as [...]
[photopress:descent.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Wholly terrifying
In terms of that cold heart-thump, the scare that’s so sought after by strange people such as myself but so rarely found, David Fincher’s Se7en (1995) is probably as good as it got during the past decade or so, at least in the US, while Fabrice du Welz’s Belgian horror show, Calvaire (2004) [...]
[photopress:calvaire.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Terror vision
This is an astonishingly grim picture – quite simply, it redefines horror. Rarely (all too rarely) is a director courageous enough to transcend the clichés and clunkers associated with the genre, to remain true to his vision and offer audiences an opportunity to discover what a fear film can do, when it’s done right. [...]