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Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni 1968)
In 1968 Michelangelo Antonioni was hot property. He’d captured the Carnaby Street cool of late 60s London in Blow Up and turned…
JFK (Oliver Stone, 1990)
Jean-Luc Godard once remarked that ‘cinema is truth 24 times a second… and every cut is a lie.’ The silent,…
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2009)
Gaspar Noe’s psychedelic foray into the drug-soaked, neon-lit underbelly of central Tokyo is an acutely realised claustrophobic nightmare; a cacophony…
Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommes, Jules Dassin, 1955)
Jules Dassin had already made a number of important political thrillers and film noirs, notably The Naked City (1948) and Thieves’ Highway (1949),…
Found Footage Horrors
We know the drill by now: shaky camera, grainy footage, header – ‘based on true events’ – yes, that’s right,…
The Bloody Petri Dishes in The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
“Ya see, when a man bleeds, it’s just tissue, but blood from one of you Things won’t obey when it’s…
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, 2006)
In Laurie Collyer’s intriguing 2006 character study Sherrybaby, sex is a site of trauma, a release, and a coping mechanism for…
Danny’s Tricycle in The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
A Big Wheel tricycle. The epitome of American 1970s childhood; a bastion of good, clean fun and innocence, and staple…
The Staircase from The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, 1938)
During the late 1930′s, no period Hollywood adventure was complete without Errol Flynn or Basil Rathbone. These two men epitomised…
From Splatstick to Gore Porn – The A-Z of Splatter Cinema
Why do we subject our eyes and soul to the smorgasbord of visual atrocities out there? Are we all a…