Tomas Alfredson (Sweden, 2008) A vampire film that doesn’t just deliver blood, but heart as well. What really distinguishes the film from other vampire movies is the touching moments that occur between the two central characters: Oskar, a blond 12-year-old boy who gets bullied a lot at school, and Eli, a girl with dark hair [...]
Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza (Spain, 2007) The movie definitely scared me and I had several jump in my seat moments and a few gasps. There does seem to be a growing trend towards the first person handheld camera point-of-view in horror films as of late: Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead are other recent films [...]
Edgar G. Ulmer (USA, 1934) This is the first time that Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi starred together in a film. After a bus accident, a newlywed couple vacationing in Hungary are taken to the home of a mad architect (Karloff) by their travel companion, a psychiatrist, who they met on a train (Lugosi). Soon [...]
Michael Reeves (UK, 1968) Vincent Price stars, playing a character loosely based on a real life Englishman who lived in the mid 17th century named Matthew Hopkins, who was a witchhunter and prosecutor. The film is regarded by many, and Price himself, as his finest performance on film, and he really delivers. His character is [...]
aka: The Mask of Satan Mario Bava (Italy, 1960) A strikingly atmospheric gothic horror from acclaimed director Mario Bava (his first feature), in which an executed Satanic witch and her henchmen are resurrected two centuries later to terrorize an aristocratic family out of vengeance for her death, as well as to claim the body of [...]
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Poland, 1961) Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961, the film is based on true events that occurred in the 17th century referred to as “The Possession of Loudun” in which Ursuline nuns at a French convent in the town of Loudun were alleged to have been [...]
*Contains major spoilers. Only read if you’ve seen it. What is the imagination? It is a voice in the loneliness of the night, the wind creaking the walls of your room, the things out of the shadows. It is a call to adventure. For what purpose do we use the imagination? We use it to [...]
On a dark rainy night, in a secluded towering laboratory, Dr. Henry Frankenstein sets out to create a man assembled out of the body parts of human cadavers. And when it�lying on a table, hidden under linen sheets�becomes animated through the power of nature�s electricity, lightning from the sky, Henry Frankenstein comes face to face [...]
Tony Takitani grew up as a lonely child. His father, a jazz musician, was never there, and his American namegiven at a time of American-Japanese conflictalienated him from other children. And yet he was satisfied with his life alone, not particularly conscious of his solitude. But one day Tony meets a woman. He is attracted [...]
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