A Nightmare on Elm Street
Since we’re covering the classics it is about time I reviewed one of my all-time favourites, the movie I reference more than any other; the film that did for sleep […]
Tag Archives: Wes Craven
X
Another farm-based horror moovie from A24 (Lamb, The Witch), X follows a film crew (Jenna Ortega, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell and Mia Goth) to Texas to […]
The Hills Have Eyes
An affluent nuclear family’s RV breaks down on a military testing site where they’re terrorised by a nuclear family of a not-so-different kind. Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes is […]
Deliverance
Four businessmen (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) take a canoe trip down a Georgia river before it – and they – are dammed. Before temporarily scuppering his career with Zardoz, […]
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 […]
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo follows an American ballet student (Jessica Harper) who goes to Germany to attend the most prestigious dance school in Europe. Imagine the Grand Budapest Hotel converted into an abattoir. […]
Funny Games (1997)
Funny Games is an Austrian horror film from Michael Haneke of Amour fame, a movie I mention only to include this bizarre video. Part endurance horror and part postmodern finger-wagging […]
Swamp Thing
After an explosion in his lab turns Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) into the Swamp Thing (Dick Durock), he and government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) must evade capture by the evil Dr. Anton […]
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance is not a gender-swapped version of the Vengaboys, but the third installment in Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy. Lee Young-ae is superb as Lee Geum-ja, another brilliantly ambiguous character from […]
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 […]
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