Red Eye
A Canadian, an Irishman and a statesman walk onto a plane in Wes Craven’s 2005 thriller. The story that sees a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) caught up in a terrorist […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
The Invisible Man (2020)
Everyone’s favourite see-through scientist (sorry Invisible Woman) is back in this new thriller starring Elisabeths Moths. https://twitter.com/notwilliamhmacy/status/1158971367020257281 Following Tom Cruise’s instant destruction of the Universal Dark Universe (meaning we’ll never […]
Onibaba
Onibaba is another Asian film about staring into the abyss, literally in the case of two women living in a hut next to a pit. This Japanese classic hops across […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Year One
Do you ever worry your skillset would have been useless in prehistoric times? Not me. I’d have been a pun-ter gatherer. Judd Apatow does Life of Brian in this 2009 […]
Screens of the Stone Age: One Million Years B.C.
A dinosaur-pelting tribe meets a pelt-wearing tribe in One Million Years B.C., AKA The Hills Had Eyes. Set Before Christ but not Before Conditioner, this 1966 fantasy adventure sees early […]
Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
Porco Rosso
A porcine fighter pilot eludes Italian fascist swine in Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Hayao Miyazaki’s ode to old Hollywood follows the Bogartian bounty hunter through a series of hog nights […]
Legend (1985)
A young Tom Cruise stars in this largely forgotten fantasy flop ironically titled Legend. Bringing an abrupt halt to Ridley Scott’s early run of classics (The Duellists, Alien and Blade […]
Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
April Fool’s Day
No holiday could pass the 1980s without being memorialised in the form of a slasher flick, be it Christmas Evil, My Bloody Valentine or Bloody New Year. This became untenable in the […]
Screen Goblin 