Tuesday 28 November 2023

Thanksgiving (full review at Screen Realm)

Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving first came to life as one of the fake trailers in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s ill-fated Grindhouse experiment. Now supersized as a feature in its own right, Thanksgiving is a seasonal slasher that pits a masked, axe-wielding maniac against a group of college kids and assorted townsfolk.

Read the full review at Screen Realm:

https://screenrealm.com/thanksgiving-movie-review-2023-horror/

IMDB: Thanksgiving

Monday 27 November 2023

FROM BEYOND (full article at The Guardian Australia)

When HP Lovecraft sat down at his desk to write his short story From Beyond, did he picture, in his mind’s eye, Ken Foree in his underpants battling a giant worm, Barbara Crampton being attacked by a swarm of carnivorous flies, or Jeffrey Combs ravenously munching on a human brain? It’s fair to assume he probably didn’t, but director Stuart Gordon did and that’s precisely why the 1986 film From Beyond is a deranged, no-holds-barred body horror masterpiece.

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/08/from-beyond-is-deranged-obscene-and-encapsulates-everything-thats-great-about-horror-movies

IMDB: From Beyond