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Lacking spark Hollywood’s fascination with Asian horror would be something worth celebrating if US directors and heads-of-studio would only take note of what made the originals work and then, hey! adapted them with style rather than completely rework them for ‘delicate’ Western sensibilities. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 original, Kairo, was meticulously paced, subtle and damn scary in places. [...] Howlingly good So, what is it with all the UK re-releases? Not that anyone’s complaining – cinemagoers in Blighty have been given splendid opportunities to take a trip down cinematic ‘memory lane’ recently, with John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) receiving silver-screen encores. More on Welles’ masterpiece presently (Best Film Ever? We’ll [...] [photopress:iburytheliving.jpg,thumb,alignleft]A grave business… The late Albert Band was, along with William Castle, a master producer (and, later, director) of pulpy horror during the 1950s, 60s and onwards – the father of similarly prolific B-movie director Charles Band, some of his more recent classics included Dracula’s Dog (1978) (‘Man’s best friend is now man’s worst fiend’, ahem), [...] Not to be missed As someone who has read Stephen King since I was around 11 years old, who has grown up loving (and loving being scared by) the man’s work, from Carrie, through The Shining via his Dark Tower cycle (and around 40 more novels and short-story collections, all told) to his most recent, Lisey’s [...] |
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