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Occultober – Day 14 – Paradise Lost 3 - Row Three
Paradise Lost: Purgatory The third West Memphis 3 documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky was made in 2011. This was now 18 years after the three young children were killed and hog-tied in a...
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Toronto After Dark 2014 – A Preview - Row Three
As I’ve mentioned before, the Toronto After Dark film festival is quite close to my heart…I was there at its birth in 2006 and have attended every single one of its birthday parties since – whether...
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Occultober – Day 15 – Suspiria - Row Three
Suspiria When most people think of Dario Argento’s delirious candy-coloured 1977 masterpiece, the first thing that comes to mind isn’t normally the occult. It isn’t the witches hiding within the...
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Occultober – Day 16 – House Of The Devil - Row Three
House Of The Devil As with yesterday’s look at Suspiria, Ti West’s break out film could be viewed as an exercise in style. Pure 70s horror film style. From its opening freeze-frame credits through the...
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Occultober – Day 17 – Prince of Darkness - Row Three
Prince Of Darkness Perhaps John Carpenter’s most underrated film, Prince of Darkness deals with both the catholic church and quantum theory in equal measure. While it doesn’t really sweat the details...
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Occultober – Day 18 – Eyes Wide Shut - Row Three
Eyes Wide Shut The password is “Fidelio.” This might be a stretch, but there is no denying the visual and sonic power of the super-elite secret society meeting that is at the heart of Stanley...
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Occultober – Day 19 – The Sentinel - Row Three
The Sentinel Clearly designed as a studio knock-off with the intent of ‘raising-the-bar’ on the horror of both The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, with Death Wish helmer Micheal Winner bringing a...
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Occultober – Day 20 – Santa Sangre - Row Three
Santa Sangre Circuses, swimming pools of blood, mind control and amputee-ism are but a few of the striking elements on display in Alejandro Jodorowski’s late 1980s picture, Santa Sangre. Of course,...
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Occultober – Day 21 – The Evil Dead - Row Three
The Evil Dead Bound in human flesh and inked in human blood, the iconic Necronomicon – The Book of the Dead – is the source of releasing some sort of demon from hell in the debut film from Sam Raimi...
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Occultober – Day 22 – Witching And Bitching - Row Three
Witching And Bitching Indulge me with Álex de la Iglesia’s gender warfare picture, Witching and Bitching. A coven of witches captures a gang of robbers and proceeds to emasculate them in their lair....
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Occultober – Day 23 – The Serpent And The Rainbow - Row Three
The Serpent And The Rainbow “Don’t let them bury me…I’m not dead!” Who does get a slight chill when they consider the idea of being though dead and put into the earth still conscious? Wes Craven...
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Occultober – Day 24 – Hellraiser - Row Three
Hellraiser Clive Barker’s original 1987 film Hellraiser trades in extreme images of sadomasochism and gore. A man discovers a puzzle-box, and upon solving it, opens a gateway to some kind of hell,...
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Occultober – Day 25 – The Devil’s Mark - Row Three
Mark of The Devil This rather graphic German exploitation film from 1970 stars Herbert Lom and a very young Udo Kier as witchfinders wandering the Austrian countryside looking to root out the work of...
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Occultober – Day 26 –Şeytan - Row Three
Şeytan Turkey has a long history of ripping off and shoddily remaking American Blockbusters from the 1970s and 1980s. Titles range from Star Wars to E.T. to Superman to Predator, and the Turkish...
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Occultober – Day 27 – Lemora: A Child’s Tale Of The Supernatural - Row Three
Lemora: A Child’s Tale Of The Supernatural The full title of the film is the key to its real meaning (and is much more accurate than the straight up horror title Lady Dracula that it is also known...
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Occultober – Day 28 – The Amityville Horror - Row Three
The Amityville Horror There’s something about those 70s horror films – the steady creep, the look and feel of their surroundings and, as exemplified by the original The Amityville Horror, the pace....
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Occultober – Day 29 – Rosemary’s Baby - Row Three
Rosemary’s Baby A film that has stood the test of time better than most, Roman Polanski’s second film focusing on a woman slowly devolving into hysteria (the first being Repulsion), the success of...
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Occultober – Day 30 – The Omen - Row Three
The Omen T he ultimate film in the ‘demon seed’ subgenre, has the son of Satan being adopted by an American ambassador to Britain, played by a greying Gregory Peck. Even as a child, this baby-faced...
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Occultober – Day 31 – The Exorcist - Row Three
The Exorcist What more can be said about the undisputed big-daddy of possession horror? The mega-hit that has endured decades, in fact it is still scary as hell; movie magic at its most fine. I won’t...
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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 1 - 31 Days of Horror
. Once again, October is upon us and a film fan’s fancy’s turn to horror. Though I’ll watch scary/creepy films any time, I like to pack October full of first time horror watches. My first four consist...
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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 2 - 31 Days of Horror
. The Paramount Vault releases make up the majority of this month’s first time watches: Grim Prairie Tales, The Sender, Shanks and Beneath. Grim Prairie Tales (Wayne Coe – 1990) An odd anthology...
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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 3 - 31 Days of Horror
. The Canadian Thanksgiving weekend provided one turkey and several tasty morsels: Leprechaun, The Canal, Tales That Witness Madness and Witchcraft. Leprechaun (Mark Jones – 1993) It didn’t really...
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Toronto After Dark 2015 – A Preview - 31 Days of Horror
The 10th edition of the Toronto After Dark film festival kicks off later today and runs for a solid 9 days (Oct. 15-23). The fest seems to have settled into its niche – it doesn’t look to expand...
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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 4 - 31 Days of Horror
. The bookends were terrific surprises as I didn’t even know they existed a week ago: Next Of Kin, Just Before Dawn, Deathdream and Don’t Deliver Us From Evil. Next Of Kin (1982 – Tony Williams)...
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Yet Another Month of Horror 2015 – Chapter 5 - 31 Days of Horror
. Wrapping up the month with: The Serpent And The Rainbow, The Majorettes, The Flesh Eaters and The Ghoul. The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988 – Wes Craven) Thanks in part to Matt Price and his...
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