Tag: Horror

• Raw: I just realised, it’s probably about vegetarianism too…

  

  Holy shit. Holy shit y’all. Holy shit. Raw is Julia Ducournau’s first feature. It’s the sort of first feature people dream of making. The sort of debut that means something. It’s a French language film the screened in the UK with the standard Universal Pictures ident at the lead, that don’t just happen here. Not […]

  E Warren

  April 14, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Cannibal, Cinema, Drama, Ella Rumpf, Film, Films, Foreign Language, Garance Marillier, Horror, Julia Ducournau, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Rabah Naït Oufella, Raw, Review, Universal Pictures

• Personal Shopper: Do you fear ghosts, or the void?

  

  I recall this anecdote about the making of The Shining. Kubrick was in conversation with King about ghost stories, trying to get a sense his beliefs to aid in the adaptation process. When King pressed back Kubrick stated he was not afraid of ghosts, even fictional ones, to be afraid of ghosts you have to […]

  E Warren

  March 20, 2017

  Film, Review

  Art Film, Cinema, Drama, Film, French, Horror, Indie, Kristen Stewart, Media, Movie, Movies, Olivier Assayas, Opinion, Personal Shopper, Two Star

• Get Out: Scary funny

  

  Daniel Kaluuya has been in his early twenties for like 10 years now. I guess he’s the sort of actor who you’d look at them online and be surprised to find out they’re actually thirty something. Turns out he’s only twenty seven which makes me feel real small cos that means he was seventeen when […]

  E Warren

  March 18, 2017

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Alison Williams, Blumhouse, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Cinema, Comedy, Daniel Kaluuya, Film, Five Star, Get Out, Horror, Jordan Peele, Media, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Universal

• The Student: An uncomfortable film

  

  Seems like there was some internal disagreement on how to translate the title of The Student. The poster in the cinema’s foyer read student, the film’s subtitles meanwhile chose to interpret it as The Disciple. Reading online the transliterated original would have been (M)Uchenik which also adds a pun in there involving the word Martyr. […]

  E Warren

  March 9, 2017

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Drama, Film, Horror, Kirill Serebrennikov, Movie, Movies, Politics, Pyotr Skvortsov, Review, Russian, Viktoriya Isakova

• The Fits: What’s a haunted house without the ghost

  

  I’m not sure what to make of The Fits. I think that’s okay, it’s the first feature film by Anna Rose Holmer, and it’s clearly trying to cover a lot of ground. It’s exploring belonging and gender presentation and coming of age as a black girl. It’s a delicate balancing act for the most part […]

  E Warren

  March 3, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Anna Rose Holmer, Cinema, Drama, Film, Horror, Movie, Movies, Review, Royalty Hightower, The Fits

• A Cure for Wellness: Crimson Peak for boys

  

  It took me a while to get the measure of A Cure for Wellness, until it struck me, this film has the Crimson Peak problem. It’s been advertised as a horror film, and sure, there’s some scary moments in there, but it’s not striving for horror. In the same way that Crimson Peak was actually […]

  E Warren

  February 27, 2017

  Film, Podcast

  A Cure For Wellness, Analysis, Cinema, Dane DeHaan, Film, Gore Verbinski, Horror, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Movie, Review