Based on the 2002 Hong Kong horror movie, “The Eye” stars Jessica Alba as the recipient of a cornea transplant that restores her sight, but with the added superpower of being able to see the dead spirits that walk the streets with us. The original movie was relatively popular in Hong Kong, though it only […]
The Thing” is john Carpenter’s 1982 of the original 1951 film “The Thing From Another World”. It recreates the premise of a group of scientists, stuck in the Antarctic, that find a hostile shapeshifting alien that has laid dormant for thousands of years in the Antarctic ice. As a shapeshifter, once it gets going, it
Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” is one of his most renowned and best loved films, with his mastery of audio and visual language on full effect for this barely coherent horror movie centered on a coven of witches. Years after its 1977 release, the film has lost much of its weight; the gore and special effects are
This 1947 film noir is staged around the traveling carnival, using the temptations of wealth and trickery to bring the heavy hands of fate on the main character, Stan, played by Tyrone Power. Stan starts off as a young apprentice to a mind reader named Zeena, who is rumoured, used to be in the ‘big-time’,
Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-Sheng was the centerpoint of the films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang; working with the celebrated director must have taught Lee something about filmmaking, as he’s reinvented himself as a director of his own accord. “Help Me Eros” is his second feature, and it screened at the Sydney Film Festival, on a
This week, I was surprisingly entertained by Ben Stiller’s latest comedy, “Tropic Thunder”, a movie about the making of a movie that goes native in the jungles of Vietnam. Quite obviously, the movie parodies “Apocalypse Now”, with its tale of madness in the Heart of Darkness. While “Tropic Thunder” makes a few jabs at Francis
It is of no small importance that Umbrella Entertainment decided to release the 1974 sci-fi film, “Silent Running”, on this year. At the very least, interest in the movie was piqued by Danny Boyle’s latest movie, “Sunshine”, which draws heavily from “Silent Running”. The 1974 film depicts a bleak future, when the Earth has become
Richard Green was in Long Bay Prison in New South Wales when director Kriv Stenders approached him for a part in a short film, and would use Green to star in “Boxing Day”, a ferocious Australian film with teeth made of razor blades. Green is an Indigenous spoken word poet, with a powerful voice and
For today’s Friday Filth, we have the raunchy 80s comedy, “Hamburger… The Motion Picture”, a title that was chosen because, apparently, just “Hamburger” would confuse moviegoers into ordering burgers at the cinema. The 80s were a wonderful time for useless, ridiculous comedy, and the sex comedy was the king of the hill. Many fond memories
In 1979, Werner Herzog remade the 1922 silent German film “Nosferatu”, bringing the movie into full colour and sound, but keeping much of the atmosphere and look of F.W. Murnau’s classic. Herzog considered the original “Nosferatu” to be the most important German film, and, on the receiving end of a large budget, wanted to make
