The word “horror” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “painful and intense fear, dread…” Not a surprising summation of what the Horror Film genre tries to instill. In the past decade, theatrical horror films have been dominated by the company Blumhouse Productions. Their spotty releases have included “Paranormal Activity”, “Sinister”, as well as the “Insidious” and […]
Day: May 8, 2016
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12 Great Cult Nun Movies That Are Worth Your Time
There are numerous examples of popular movies that feature a nun as one of the main characters; this includes The Sound of Music, Sister Act, The Singing Nun, and Doubt. This list is not about those films. It deals mostly with the exploitative subgenre that is known as nunsploitation, one that was prevalent in Europe […]
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The 10 Best Jonathan Demme Movies You Need To Watch
Jonathan Demme is right now on what’s probably the last years of his career. The legendary filmmaker was born in New York in February 22, 1944, and has been directing since he was thirty, when he debuted with Roger Corman-produced comedy Caged Heat, a movie that set him on an early run of wacky action/comedy […]
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The 30 Best Japanese Live Action Movies Based on Manga
Over the last several years, major Japanese studios have started to follow the tactics of their Hollywood equivalents by finally adapting their own comics, called manga, in the way they deserve. This tendency is not exactly new, since films based on manga/anime have been shot since the 70s. However, it is the first time that […]
Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion (Book Review)
Before the internet and YouTube, the ways that you became informed about cult cinema was from reading books, fanzines, and watching some beat up VHS copies of the movies. There were many great books that came out during this time, including a trilogy from author Danny Peary and a guidebook from Videohound dealing with cult […]
Pulling Focus: Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
“You don’t know much about women, do you Stephen Meek?” – Emily Tetherow (played by Michelle Williams) Go West, young ma’am “Oregon Territory, 1845” reads a rough-hewn hand-drawn title card that opens Meek’s Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52-year-old, Miami-born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later […]