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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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Drifting Classroom (1987 Nobuhiko Obayashi)
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…
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Long Weekend (1978, Australia)
So good to have the planet back! And providential to have it on biserika.ro (the church), a truly ecumenical place to be. I feel indebted to many movie diggers that have gone faster, further and deeper than me – and who continue to nourish me with the most exquisite pieces of their rarest fruits.…
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PHASE IV (Saul Bass 1974)
PHASE IV starts like a demo tape of biological control & invasive species, but ends up unveiling the next evolutionary step of eusocial life on earth. PHASE IV is an incredible kult science fiction docu- /apocalyptic mocku- mentary / burnout movie with a tinge of western spaghetti dealing with hive mind dynamics, ant/human relations, game/number…