One of the things I look for in movies, be they horror or otherwise, is a ‘cinematic’ look, which I often have difficulty describing though what I mean is a movie that looks like a movie. Which sounds fairly obvious, but bear with me. I mean there’s some actual cinematography going on, as in the […]
A week or so ago I caught The Haunting Of Hill House on Netflix, and I stand by what I said then, namely Mike Flanagan is the best horror director working today. More recently I rewatched The Shining and realized both movies are remarkably similar. An overhead shot of the hedge maze on the grounds […]
“”Room 237” is (possibly) a weird, oddly effecting journey into the mind of a filmmaker considered by many to be a genius.” Rodney Ascher’s “Room 237” is fascinating because it manages to take a subject that’s remarkably niche – the messages and potential motivations interwoven into the making of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” – and manages […]
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