Am I the only person who thinks that most top three / five / ten ‘best horror films ever’ lists are complete and utter rubbish? Seriously, it’s the same every time I open up a newspaper / magazine: as if they were written by a staff writer with nothing better to do…The same tired films, the same inadequate comments. It’s this kind of coverage that makes people who have no idea about the genre think that there are only about (more…)
Before Sam Raimi fell off the wagon—that is to say went from making films for $100 to many millions, most recently the impressed but also terrible Spiderman franchise—he was just a boy with a dream, sneaking about with his friend Bruce Campbell. The pair of them would spend summer together larking about. With no budget to speak of, film-making equipment was either stolen, borrowed or made for cheap using house-hold equipment acquired by the pair and their friends.
When Evil (more…)
Clint Eastwood scares people. It’s a fact. Understandable, considering he still has frown marks on his face from Dirty Harry and rarely disproves the myth by showing his smiling face in public. And with Clint the frown of grimness wasn’t a one-off. No, if Hugh Grant can be considered the King of cheese—which is indisputable I think you’ll agree—then Clint Eastwood is the master of somber faced gestures, bottled anger and a veneer of impenetrable discontent. He’s made a living (more…)