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 […]
Tag Archives: Wes Craven
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 […]
Get Out
This new horror film follows a black man (Daniel Kaluuya) visiting his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) parents. “When there’s too many white people I get nervous,” he remarks. And with very good reason. […]
Shocker
Shocker is a 1989 slasher by everyone’s favourite Baptist turned pornographer: the late, great Wes Craven. Mitch Pileggi plays TV repairman and serial killer Horace Pinker, who’s executed by electric chair […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Razor Glove Order
Star Wars fans have introduced the Machete Order, a way of watching the films in sequence that helpfully cuts out The Phantom Menace (but weirdly still includes Attack of the Clones). A similar system can […]
The Woman (Vs Room)
After Room left me feeling depressed, I revisited The Woman by way of a palette cleanser; the cinematic equivalent of a Fisherman’s Friend. Administered by Leatherface. Room and The Woman both feature Sean Bridgers as […]
