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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016 directed by André Øvredal)
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…
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Yokai Daisenso (The Great Yokai War 2005 Takashi Miike)
Another Miike, this time for your soul – a Japanese movie that finally gets me the same sentiment as The Neverending Story based on the book by Michael Ende. There is a lot of background on the Great Yokai War – finally a movie that brings the work of the grea mangaka Mizuki Shigeru to…
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Southbound
Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares – and darkest secrets – over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway. Southbound is a 2015 American anthology horror/sci-fi/thriller film directed by Radio Silence, Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner and Patrick Horvath. The…
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THE RELIC [Peter Hyams 1997]
The Relic is about what actually happens when ‘Indiana Jones’ returns back from the temples, the tombs, the jungles to civilization under the spell of “curious or menacing objects”. Peter Hyams is top on my list of directors just because he’s behind both The Relic and A Sound of Thunder (2005). In a sense both…
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CANDYMAN (Clive Barker/Bernard Rose 1992)
“I am Rumour.(…)I am the writing on the Wall.”-Candyman “I will use ‘doxa‘ throughout in the sense of ‘opinion’, ‘conjecture’ or ‘belief’. Doxa can still feature as the horrifying other of critical thought.”-Roger Luckhurst “This series, this virtual network, … gives rumours their strange authority.”-Hans-Joachim Neubauer Why is Candyman so compelling and powerful after all…
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BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (Panos Cosmatos 2010)
Serenity Trough Technology [/\RB()RI/\ Institute motto 1966] No turnaround this time, one of the best examples of cinematographic altered state eeriness and paranormal retro-avantgarde. Definite cult psychotronic favorite, and probably no wonder it’s Canadian. It’s a fantastic directorial debut by director Panos Cosmatos. With this movie I had the impression that I completely missed a…
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Lifeforce ( Tobe Hooper 1985)
I’ve been aiming to add something to this movie review since forever. The original entry/synoposis is unchanged in just in the end becose it describes the whole movie in a few sentences (for those interested in quick summary). Lifeforce was made by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, The Mangler) when he as working at…