Keyword results: Horror
Not Quite Hollywood
It's ironic that some of the most recognisable faces in Not Quite Hollywood are American. Why does Quentin Tarantino know more about Australian genre cinema than we do? A nationwide awkwardness about our own film history has distracted us from this stash of glittery fool's gold for far too long.
MIFF Trash Horror
Film festivals occasionally throw a few obscure horror gems into their programs to up their cool quotient, but MIFF takes it a step further this year by gleefully embracing the long, trashy and often bizarre history that spawned the contemporary genre.
1968's Spider Baby is one of the most hilarious and fundamentally doomed cult film productions of all time, thus a hands-down festival highlight.
The Orphanage
Is there anything better than nervous laughter spreading slowly through a cinema? Old-fashioned Spanish ghost story The Orphanage possesses the entire spectrum of scares: sudden shocks, creeping dread, and the frantic urge to shout "No! Don't! Gah!" at the screen.
Lately, horror sometimes seems like the kind of pornography that's all sex-scenes and no awkward pizza-boy set-up.
30 Days Of Night
As far as high concepts go, this is up there with that bus that couldn't slow below 50 mph without exploding. Vampires on one hand; an Alaskan town that won't see the sun for an entire month on the other; the inevitable, vicious bloodshed when they meet in the middle.
30 Days Of Night is generic in the true sense of the word.
Black Sheep
New Zealand. Killer sheep. The genius of this kind of high-concept is that it lets the poster alone tell you everything you need to know about Black Sheep. (Of course, it all falls apart if there’s only emptiness sitting behind the high concept. Last year, all we wanted were snakes. Snakes on a plane.
Dario Argento films
Ok, so we all know that horror movies are cool, have always been cool and will remain cool till the end of time... Why? We don't know, but it's true... end of story.
What makes Dario's movies stand out? Maybe it's the crazy and innovative ways he thinks of killing and torturing people, maybe it'sthat in most of his movies you could take a photograph of any scene at any time and it would possibly be the best photograph ever taken, or maybe it's the fact that he’s Alice Cooper’s favourite director, and how good is Alice Cooper (Answer: TOO GOOD.
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