Four Frames: The Borderlands (Elliot Golder, 2013)
It’s become somewhat of a British horror tradition to have a plot based around local country bumpkin-satanist types. Elliot Golder’s…
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Four Frames: 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
The zombie film was, to excuse the pun, a sub-genre that had flatlined at the turn of the century. Movies…
Four Frames: The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Innocents – Jack Clayton’s adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw – was once described by the…
Four Frames: 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),…
Screengems: 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…
Four Frames: 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…
Four Frames: There Was a Father (Yasujirô Ozu, 1942)
There Was a Father (1942) is one of two films Yasujirô Ozu made during Japan’s efforts in World War II…
One Sheet: Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Through the years, science fiction posters and subtlety have not been the best of pairings. Forbidden Planet gave us one…
Four Frames: Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
It is perhaps fitting that in the year that saw the world descend into civil unrest, a micro-budget splatter movie…
