body horror

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016 directed by André Øvredal)

January 13, 2017

There is definitely something happening after the Scream 90s highlights or the extreme French cinema wave of the 2000s, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe might have a place near Raw, The Babadook, It Follows, Antibirth, The Witch, Get Out at least on my list. Sporting possibly the corniest settings ever: a father(Brian Cox)-son (Emile…
Anomalisa

March 26, 2016

Anomalisa is a 2015 American stop-motion comedy-drama film directed and produced by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, and written by Kaufman based on his 2005 play of the same name. It was released on December 30, 2015 by Paramount Pictures. The film follows a lonely self-help author (voiced by David Thewlis) who perceives everyone (Tom Noonan)…
Motivational Growth

October 26, 2015 Respond

After a failed TV set leads to a failed suicide attempt, depressed and reclusive Ian Folivor (Adrian DiGiovanni) begins taking life advice from The Mold (Jeffrey Combs) a fungal growth in his filthy bathroom.
THREE WALLS (Zaheed Mawani 2011)

October 11, 2015 Respond

‘We drive to work in a box, we work in a box, we go home and watch a box and, before we know it, they bury us in a box.’ Corporate Motivational Speaker Here is a short documentary made by Canadian filmmaker Zaheed Mawani about the history of the cubicle, interviewing office workers, corporate…
The Midnight Meat Train [Ryuhei Kitamura/Clive Barker 2008]

April 15, 2015 Respond

File under: the slickest kind of mind-numbing butchery, hollow earth mythology, elder races, horrific subway urban legends with a pinch of Antonioni’s Blow-up. This is a movie made by Ryuhei Kitamura. Kitamura achieved a cult following with this chanbara sword play and zombie Versus and many manga movie adaptations. Midnight Meat Train appears to be…
The Mangler [Tobe Hooper 1995]

February 23, 2015 Respond

“Have you ever considered the possibility that the machine may be haunted?…Maybe ‘haunted’ is not a good word, let’s say possessed.”Mark I consider The Mangler an incredible classic of occult human-machinic fatal affair, of industrial sacrificial rites and demonic laundry labour. I would like to follow in a few movies the abrasive, deleterious and mutilating…
Drifting Classroom (1987 Nobuhiko Obayashi)

January 22, 2015 Respond

After the late rediscovery of his surreal horror classic Hausu (1977), Nobuhiko Obayashi was being considered as one of the Japan’s best kept secrets. Drifting Classroom is an unintentional monster of a movie (not just a monster movie!). Obayashi practically massacred Kazuo Umezu manga original, and along the way transformed it into a weird cult classic. The…
Man-Thing (2005)

January 11, 2015 Respond

Amongst humanoid embodiments of primeval foetid putrid forces and plant-like elementals roaming imaginary marshlands, the Swamp Thing (DC) and Man-Thing (Marvel) are certainly the most famous comics characters. As anti-city, as inverted city ecosystem – the swamp and marshland is probably the ur-form of the Netherworld, the first green Hades. Swamps are viscous cities harboring…