Can you believe we’re onto S already? Madness. Anyway, I had a whole bunch of films I wanted to talk about for S, and I spent a lot of time going back and forth between Session 9 and Suspiria. Eventually I settled on Session 9, although I’m not overly sure why. I love both films, […]
Cinema
A to Z – Rear Window
No A to Z of movies would be complete without at least one entry by Sir Alfred Hitchcock, and this one actually features two. While I could have used his films for an array for entries, so far I’ve restricted myself to The Lodger for L, and now Rear Window for R. I must admit, […]
A to Z – Quatermass and the Pit
On Thursday, I visited The Plague of the Zombies for ‘P’, and today I’m back with Hammer for Quatermass & The Pit. Hammer are probably most associated with horror, despite their forays into other genres, and their 1950s boom of popularity actually came through science fiction, with the triple whammy of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), […]
A to Z – The Plague of the Zombies
I used to be a fan of zombies until they went mainstream, but I have to admit, I will always have a fondness for the old school ‘voodoo’ zombies. After all, it’s where the sub genre started – long before viruses and radiation from space got blamed, cinema was using voodoo to explain its fascination […]
A to Z – The Others
I appear to be continuing the horror theme from yesterday’s Nosferatu, moving on to a much later horror film from 2001, The Others. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Nicole Kidman, The Others is an old-fashioned ghost story set in an isolated house in Jersey in the years after the Second World War. Kidman plays […]
A to Z – Nosferatu
There were plenty of films I could have chosen for N, and indeed one of the problems I’ve faced for this A to Z challenge is choosing particular films. Why should I choose one film over another? Well I know a few vampire fans read this blog so I thought that for N, I’d choose […]
