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Starburst Memories: A Pictorial History of Horror by Denis Gifford

27/04/2014by Dirk 3 Comments

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 […]

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ANDY: The Innocents (Clayton, UK, 1961)

05/02/2012by Andy 2 Comments

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 […]

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DOM: The Thing (From Another World) (Nyby, US, 1951)

02/05/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

“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 […]

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CHRIS: Scanners (Cronenberg, Canada, 1981)

16/12/2010by Dirk 1 Comment

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 […]

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DOM: Dracula (AKA Horror of Dracula) (Fisher, UK, 1958)

28/06/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

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 […]

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CHRIS: The Elephant Man (Lynch, US, 1980)

20/06/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

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 […]

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