Director: Nacho Cerda
Year: 1994
Country: Spain
Does torture porn as a genre exist? I’d like to think so. This much maligned pseudo sub-genre, coined by film critic David Edelstein, has often been a hot topic for debate, though in recent years its popularity as anything worthy of discussion has faded with the realization that it simply doesn’t [...]
The horror industry has painted upon the latter half of this decade a unique and identifiable oeuvre. Its medium of choice is the blood of the innocent and our withering sensibilities, its canvas the silver screen of a foreign nation. I am, of course, speaking of the “New Wave of French Horror.” Seemingly a subset [...]
New horror films will be made and studied and enjoyed without “film critics” jamming their buzz words and useless conglomerate machine’s terms down into the non-elitist throats of the populist. These terms are all encompassing and sad. They lump movies into specific categories which shows complete and utter narrow-mindedness rather than one ounce of something [...]
Mr. Disgusting over at Bloody-Disgusting reported a week and a half ago that Lars von Trier secured financing for his horror film AntiChrist. Filming is set to commence in Cologne, Germany, and is centered on “a couple mourning the loss of their child who retreat to a cabin in the woods, where they soon encounter [...]
King’s article in Entertainment Weekly can be found here.
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It’s incredibly rare for a horror movie to frighten, especially when you consider the big-budget, special effects laden abortions that Hollywood has been churning out as of late, so it’s always nice to see someone like Stephen King, an icon for the genre and purveyor of three-page [...]
Rarely does a horror film come along that truly and genuinely frightens me. So far, the tally is around five or so, though a few should be exempt, such as Sleepaway Camp, as I was, like, seven when I saw both, and seeing Angela standing there stark naked holding a decapitated head is not exactly [...]
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