Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #12
Well, if you are looking to snuggle on the couch with the missus for a light Romantic Comedy then you have come to the wrong place. A film centred around relationships it may be, but on the contrary, this is the exact antithesis of a Romantic Comedy. I would venture to call it Horror Amour, or what happens when the prince is suffocating the princess, the princess is terminally restless and they both…
Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #11
Parked outside a World War II museum is a tourist bus and a tank. Nazi Zombies are slaughtering the tourists that have disembarked from the bus in a merciless frenzy. Blunt force trauma is being inflicted with brutal savagery. Viscera is being torn asunder and flung through the air. Bucket loads of gore is being splattered across every available surface.
At one point, a couple of Nazi Zombies grab each end of some…
Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #10
Larry Cohen's adherence to low budget Guerilla filmmaking limited the critical reception of his films. That is a real shame because such staunch independence gave him the freedom to have complete control over every element of his films. As a result, Larry Cohrn's mad genius is given full reign, and we are fortunate to have such a crazy film like God Told Me To, which otherwise would most likely have been butchered by…
Everything I love about cinema started right there in the 1890s. The Lumière Brothers started a long tradition of realism, capturing life on camera and providing a snapshot of different times, people and places. In extension of this, Alice Guy-Blache utilised this new mass media to reach out and engage broad audiences in social commentary and make…
