Alexandre Aja’s 2006 remake of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes bears the tagline “The Lucky Ones Die First.” The slogan for Mark Allen’s debut film, Delirium–which also revolves around a group of individuals stranded in the desert–is “The Lucky One Dies...
DELICATESSEN is a film that I only really caught pieces of it when it was on cable, but always ended up coming into it, halfway into or toward the end of the film. It’s always been a film everyone always said I should sit down and watch, as it’s a film...
John Landis mixes dark humor and gore in Deer Women, one of the better Masters of Horror episodes in my opinion. It’s not really a scary film, but it does have some pretty gruesome scenes including dead bodies that are pretty much stomped into bloody pieces. Its...
“This young Italian guy is starting to worry me.” –Alfred Hitchcock referring to Dario Argento Dario Argento (Suspiria, Tenebre, Opera, Phenomena, Inferno), the foremost visual auteur of the Italian horror directors (more consistent than his often-cited...
It seems there is a new tread of horror/war flicks, last month we had “The Bunker” (Review) come out last month, and now we have “Deathwatch”, which I liked a lot better. Deathwatch has a really great story and a great cast which includes Andy...
Michael Bassett issues a claustrophobic interpretation of the horrors of the first World War with his screenwriting and directorial debut, Deathwatch. However, the film–in many respects–is too authentic in that the setting dilutes character identification....
