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Episode 59 of The Electric Shadows Podcast is part two in our Night of the Living Dead trilogy.
In episode 53, Robs Daniel and Wallis along with special guest Ian Bird took a 50th anniversary look at George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic.…
Tag: horror
REVIEW: Halloween (2018)
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the suburbs…
In 1978, the world was affected by a trauma so great that it still continues to resonate today. I’m talking, of course, about John Carpenter’s original Halloween – a sui generis slasher movie that has inspired eight sequels and a reboot (plus sequel), and now a reboot-sequel that ignores the sequels and the reboot (plus sequel).…
What Nightmares May Come – Thoughts on the Future of Horror
By Max Eshraghi
It has taken some time but the horror genre has achieved legitimacy. It is finally, in a word, prestigious.
What was once one of the most commonly derided and dismissed of genres has evolved. The ugly, putrid, caterpillar of horrors past has emerged from a chrysalis after 90-or-so years of metamorphosis and transformed into a multi-faceted butterfly: namely, a genre that can do it all.…
REVIEW: Winchester
Gun-house, not fun-house.
The House of Haunted Hill. The Shining. Poltergeist. The Amityville Horror. The Conjuring. The haunted house is perhaps the staple trope of the whole horror genre. The things that go bump in the night are, as a rule, scarier when they’re living – or not living – in your home, and in Winchester, the Spierig Brothers have given themselves some prime real estate to play with.…
REVIEW: The Ritual
Trauma has been at the root of some of the best horror in recent years: Gerald’s Game, It Follows, The Babadook. New British horror The Ritual brings this subtext up above ground while paying homage to a whole coven of folk horror classics.
…NETFLIX HORROR DOUBLE BILL: Gerald’s Game & Cult of Chucky
Gerald’s Game
2017 may be remembered as the year we remembered how to adapt Stephen King.
We’ve even figured out how to do a quality ’90s-style Stephen King miniseries; specifically by getting rid of the sprawl.
Jessie (Carla Gugino) and Gerald Burlingame (Bruce Greenwood) take a romantic weekend away in a last-ditch attempt to recover the spark in their marriage.…
REVIEW DOUBLE BILL: American Made & The Limehouse Golem
American Made
Scarface, 1932 and ‘83. Goodfellas. The Wolf of Wall Street. War Dogs. American Made is just the latest film to take aim at the dark, opportunistic side of the American dream.
“Based on a true story”, as such films generally are, American Made is the story of Barry Seal, a pilot extraordinaire turned TWA lifer, recruited by the CIA in 1978.…
REVIEW: It Comes At Night goes nowhere in particular
Why lay the table for a feast if you’re not going to serve a meal that can complete with the place setting?
It’s this shortcoming that ultimately prevents It Comes At Night from becoming more than just another addition to the, in recent years, surprisingly well-worn genre of post-apocalyptic drama-horror.…
CINEMATIC GRAB-BAG: Beauty And The Beast (2017) & Get Out
Beauty And The Beast (2017)
Obligatory “tale as old as time” reference.
Disney’s original Beauty And The Beast holds a special place in my heart: it was, according to my parents, the first film I ever saw in the cinema; aged just eighteen months.
CINEMATIC GRAB-BAG: A Cure For Wellness & Patriots Day
A Cure For Wellness
A Cure For Wellness is a film I wish was better.
A psychological horror with grandiose ambitions, it stars Dane DeHaan as Lockhart, a callow young stockbroker with ice-chip eyes dispatched to retrieve his company’s CEO from a remote “wellness center” in the Swiss Alps.…