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Tag Archives: Wes Craven

The Hills Have Eyes

December 17, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Deliverance

November 20, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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, […]

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Red Eye

March 2, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Suspiria

July 24, 2018by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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. […]

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Funny Games (1997)

February 18, 2018by Dan Meier 1 Comment

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 […]

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Swamp Thing

December 25, 2017by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Lady Vengeance

November 22, 2017by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Hounds of Love

July 30, 2017by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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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Get Out

March 22, 2017by Dan Meier 1 Comment

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. […]

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Shocker

July 6, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

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 […]

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