Starburst Memories: A Pictorial History of Horror by Denis Gifford
Following the B-Movie’s Film School, I have been on the hunt for further examples of genuine second features (rather than those films that embody the ‘spirit of the Bs’). As […]
Tag Archives: Horror
ANDY: The Innocents (Clayton, UK, 1961)
Ambiguity in film can be one of the hardest things to pull off successfully. Unlike in literature where the novelist has the potential use of internal monologue and an assorted […]
DOM: The Thing (From Another World) (Nyby, US, 1951)
“An intellectual carrot, the mind boggles!”, indeed it does! Based on J W Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There?” in which a mysterious alien disguises itself in every person in […]
CHRIS: Scanners (Cronenberg, Canada, 1981)
SCANNERS was written and directed by Cronenberg and concerns a group of people who have intense telepathic and telekinetic powers who are caught in the middle of an industrial espionage […]
DOM: Dracula (AKA Horror of Dracula) (Fisher, UK, 1958)
The ultimate horror film, full stop. There, I have said it. 82 minutes of pure brilliance! When I was growing up in the 1970’s, I was always fascinated by my […]
CHRIS: The Elephant Man (Lynch, US, 1980)
No other director has brought art and mainstream American cinema clashing together in quite the same way as David Lynch: film-maker, transcendental educationalist, coffee supplier and cartoonist. From his early […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 