Mannequin
The DVD cover of Mannequin boasts that it’s a “CLASSIC 80’S MOVIE” which, aside from the misplaced apostrophe, seems an odd proclamation. Don’t classics tend to speak for themselves? The Godfather packaging […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Hounds of Love
Based on the ‘Moorhouse Murders‘ of 1986, this Australian horror film sees a serial killer couple, Evelyn and John (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry), abduct teenager Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings). Given the […]
Wish Upon
Final Destination meets Bruce Almighty in a new horror film called Wish Upon. I don’t know why. Based on The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, Wish Upon follows Clare (Joey King), a high […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
The Beguiled
Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]
It Comes At Night and Post-Horror Post-Mortem
The Guardian recently ran an article proclaiming the birth of “post-horror“, its chief example being Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes At Night. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus […]
Baby Driver
It’s standard practice: walking around, listening to music and imagining you’re in a movie. We’ve all done it; Edgar Wright’s gone and made it. Baby Driver is not a prequel […]
Video Nasty 59: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a Spanish-Italian zombie film from 1974. It has more than 15 titles internationally, including Don’t Open the Window (the film has literally nothing to do with windows) and The […]
The Red Turtle
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Finding Nemo, turtles have a reputation in Hollywood of being crass or stoned. As ever, it’s up to a foreign film to redress […]
Showgirls
As Twin Peaks returns to the delight and confusion of viewers, let’s look back on Kyle MacLachlan’s career lowlight. And I’m not talking about How I Met Your Mother. This 1995 stripper […]
Screen Goblin 