One of my earliest memories involves the film Friday the 13th (those who know me are rolling their eyes and thinking 'This doesn't surprise me!') I'm 5 years old and I'm running towards my local cinema, The Odeon in York. I regularly go there when my family ventures into town as there are posters and …
Continue reading ‘It’s Got A Death Curse!’- Taking A Deep Dive Into Friday The 13th (1980)
It's that time again even though we're already living within some kind of freaky biohazard/contagion real life horror movie anyway! Here's my list for 31 Days of Halloween 2020. Each day I'll be watching and then reviewing the following pieces of celluloid depravity- 1. Blood Link 2. The Honeymoon Killers 3. Day of the Dead …
Mommie Dearest has the wrong kind of reputation. It was conceived as a movie version of Joan Crawford's adopted daughter Christina's tell-all book regarding her upbringing and the years of abuse she endured at the hands of her mother. Instead, it's now synonymous with being 'campy', 'so bad it's good' and as being one of …
Once upon a time (the early 80's to be precise) when my family rented our first video recorder from Granada Home Video, you could rent tapes of trailers from the same shop. One tape had all of the trailers for Warner Bros video releases on it and included such gems as The Exorcist, The Shining …
It was great timng when I started to get completely obsessed with the work of Martin Scorsese in the late 80's because it wasn't long before a pretty much indispensable text was published that lifted the lid on his oeuvre to a frighteningly thorough degree. There was already the excellent Scorsese on Scorsese that was …
Continue reading Book of the Week- Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly
This week's Soundtrack of the Week is for the 1979 haunted house (hoax!) The Amityville Horror. This soundtrack is amazing as theres so much going on and so much detail and nuance that might not be noticed on first listening/viewing. If there was music that would be perfect for such fare it would be sinister …
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This week's Poster of the Week is one that is framed and adorns one of the walls in my flat! It's artist Brian Bysouth's extraordinary poster for the 1976 'body switch' comedy Freaky Friday. The attention to detail is amazing with several scenes and characters from the film being depicted and drawn so well! I'm …
Meathook Cinema 