by Martin | Sep 21, 2019 | movies, reviews
Set in my ways as I am I prefer to buy my Frightfest tickets in person, at whatever passes for a ‘box office’ nowadays. Over the years this has become more and more difficult and now entails leaving it to the very last moment. This time around I thought my...
by Martin | Sep 7, 2019 | movies, reviews
OUR TIME There was quite a high turnout for this three-hour epic of directorial self-laceration from Mexican director Carlos Reygadas, although admittedly this was at the Minema screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury, which seats about 20 people. I had a guy ahead of me...
by Martin | Aug 31, 2019 | movies, reviews
Vernon Sewell’s career in British film started, weirdly enough, with a German film – Morgenrot (1933) a collaboration with Gustav Klimt’s illegitimate son (one of them) that premiered in front of Adolf Hitler. Apparently Hitler liked it. His next...
by Martin | Jul 21, 2019 | movies, reviews
THE NIGHTCOMERS In Nick Pinkerton’s positive Sight and Sound review of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (which I thought was shit by the way) I first encountered the phrase ‘gentrified horror’, a pejorative term for the kind of upmarket horror that...
by Martin | Jun 15, 2019 | movies, reviews
In 1965 Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors kicked off a series of ‘anthology’ horror films, mostly made by Amicus, of which Tales That Witness Madness (not made by Amicus) is often dismissed as a peculiarly ropey example, although its director Freddie...
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