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Frightfest 2022

by Martin | December 18, 2022 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

'Keep On Rollin', says a T-shirt on a little girl outside the Prince Charles Cinema, which I at first imagined was a reference to Jean Rollin, French director of sex vampire films and subject of the documentary Orchestrator of Storms, showing at Frightfest. The image...

Frightfest 2018 Part Two: Awks

by Martin | October 15, 2018 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

KILLING GOD In this Spanish offering from directors Caye Casas and Albert Pintó, various members of a family gather in an old dark house for New Year's Eve, only to be joined by a dwarf who emerges from the toilet (the room, not the bowl – at least as far as we can...

Frightfest 2017: Evil Twins

by Martin | October 1, 2017 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

FASHIONISTA As regular readers would know (if they existed), Frightfest usually marks the one time in the calendar year where I don't go to the cinema alone: Dave comes along. Or at least he does for part of the time before he has to duck out due to work commitments...

LFF 2018: Holiday / This Teacher / Cam

by Martin | January 20, 2019 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

HOLIDAY I took over a week's holiday for the London Film Festival in 2018. This leaves me with no anecdotes about my experiences when I get back to work but it means that I can 'visit' many different countries without the hassle of actually having to go anywhere...

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

by Martin | June 27, 2015 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

It's fair to say that showings of films in the Cult strand at the BFI have been somewhat underpopulated. In spite of a mention in Time Out, this is no exception – which is as it should be. What point is there in a cult film if everyone wants to see it? This is one of...

Post-Horror: Men / Bergman Island

by Martin | July 30, 2022 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

MEN I see that the Barbican are putting on a summer season of 'post-horror' films. Is that a film you see after a horror film, for light relief perhaps? Well no, apparently – it's just another iteration of our old friend 'elevated horror'. So the films in question...

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay De Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

by Martin | April 14, 2020 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

CAUTION: Pre-lockdown content. May include allusions to leaving the house. Are there awards for audiences? Sometimes I feel that I deserve recognition for the efforts I make to catch one-off showings of alienating arthouse films – or at least, that they should pay me...

Burke And Hare (1971)

by Martin | January 26, 2020 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

This is director Vernon Sewell’s last film and there’s something fitting about that: after two ventures into the more fantastical side of horror (The Blood Beast Terror and The Curse Of The Crimson Altar from 1966 and 1968 respectively) neither of which went out of...

LOCKDOWN! The Giant Claw (1957)

by Martin | April 24, 2020 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

How often have I fantasized about the government forbidding me to leave the house so that I am finally compelled to watch all the DVDs I have accumulated over the years? Well never, since that would have been absurd, even for a fantasy. Nevertheless here we are. Or at...

Office Killer (1997)

by Martin | August 14, 2016 | movies, reviews | 0 Comments

The first thing I knew about photographer Cindy Sherman making a sort of horror film was when I saw that feminist film club the Final Girls were screening it at the Prince Charles; either that, or I did actually see it at the cinema in the 90's and subsequently forgot...