ISSN 1717-9559
Keyword : Horror
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With the recent release of Inside/A l’interieur France has released yet another impressive horror film, signalling yet another boost in the arm to the genre and French cinema in general.
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A comparative analysis of the German expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Clive Barker's feature debut, Hellraiser.
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An analysis of Freddie Francis' minor masterpiece in psychological and supernatural horror.
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An exclusive look at one of the lesser known Hammer films from its peak period, starring Christopher Lee and directed by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher.
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A thematic and formal analysis of the environmental thread across a group of mainly low budget, independent horror films that showed at Fantasia 2007.
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An examination of trends in the recent horror film, focusing on the intimate relationship that exists between viewer/film in the venerable horror genre.
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The end of the world is hot on US screens of late, culminating in the intriguing technological experiment, Cloverfield.
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An interview with Philippe Spurrell, director of the Canadian supernatural mystery, The Descendant (2007).
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An earnest, DIY account of a sighted creature in the New Orleans, Louisiana area.
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A textual analysis of the variant versions of Sergio Martino's excellent giallo, All the Colors of the Dark.
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An theoretical analysis of what makes the cult film fan tick, from a psychoanalytical standpoint.
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A review essay of one of the most intriguing low budget American horror films ever made, taking into account production history and how director Herk Harvey uses the film's technical limitations to its benefit.
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A tribute to the Hammer great Freddie Francis, cinematographer par excellence and director of countless horror films, including the film given extensive analysis here, The Creeping Flesh.
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In-depth review of the Fantasia International Film Festival's first DVD release, a compilation of outstanding shorts shown at the festival over the past several years.
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A broad survey of the trends and patterns of the American horror film since 1991, the year Silence of the Lambs won several Academy Awards.
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An interview with director, cast and select production people of the refreshingly original indie horror film, Shallow Ground.
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A look at how two recent documentaries on the slasher/stalker film signals a paradigm shift in the horror genre.
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An analysis of how the representation of the modern male plays out in visceral dynamics of Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, while also comparing it to Wes Craven's original.
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An analysis of the representation of the disabled across the broad spectrum of fantastic cinemas.
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A report on Fantasia Film Festival 2006, discussing issues related to form-content, style for style's sake, and short films featuring man eating cats.
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A report on the 10th Year Anniversary of Fantasia, focusing on films featuring particularly nasty male pyschos.
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A review essay of a multi-author reader on one of the greatest of Scottish films, The Wicker Man.
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An interview with David Grieco, Italian director of serial killer film Evilenko.
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A psychoanalytical defense of Dario Argento against claims of misogyny.
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An overview analysis of Spain's enfant terrible, unique auteruist Agustin Villaronga, director of In A Glass Cage, 99.9, and others.
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An in-depth review essay of the notorious horror film In a Glass Cage, released on DVD by Cult Epics.
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An in-depth interview with co-writer and co-director of the Canadian noirish horror film Eternal.
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An in-depth report on the Fantasia International film festival, with a focus on the Thai films, the shorts, and some impressive US films.
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A theoretical analysis of the value of Gus Van Sant's Psycho.
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Dario Argento lives up to his often noted and inappropriate monicker, The Italian Hitchcock.
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An in-depth interview with Brazil's horror master Jose Mojica Marins.
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An review of the Jose Mojica Marins DVD box-set.
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Festival report on the 15th edition of the San Sebastian Horror fest.
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I was fortunate to catch this low budget chiller at a late night screening at Montreal’s Cinema du Parc theatre on April 23, 2004. It had been a long time since I had seen this film, but for reasons soon apparent, it has remained finely etched in my memory.
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Part-two of Fantasia Festival report.
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Fantasia is back after a one year hiatus, stonger than ever.
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With Gus Van Sant currently on the hard road back to relevance - the gnomic, impressive achievement that was Gerry (2002) having been so closely followed by his Cannes triumph with Elephant (2003) - the time may be ripe to revisit one of his most eccentric and reviled (and very nearly forgotten) projects, his 1998 near-shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
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Gus Van Sant's re-appropriation of Hitchcock's classic is given another (close) look.
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Cult classic of the 1970s rediscovered and gets a small theatrical and DVD release.
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Our man in Italy visits Spain's horror and fantasy festival extravaganza.
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Offscreen is pleased to announce the recent publication of a book co-written by author Tommaso La Selva and Offscreen’s man-in-Italy, Roberto Curti: Sex and Violence: journey into the cinema of the extreme. Totaro reviews this important Italian contribution to horror film scholarship.
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A thematic-based analysis of Shyamalan's narrative structure, with an emphasis on temporality.
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Donato Totaro looks at Shyamalan's visual style in his extensive two-part analysis of Shyamalan's (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs).
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Donato Totaro looks at Shyamalan's visual style in his extensive two-part analysis of Shyamalan's 'trilogy' (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs).
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Randolph Jordan stretches his writer's arms in his two-part Fantasia 2003 report, using part one to reflect on cult cinema spectatorship.
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Jordan uses part two of his report as an extended mediation on Fantasia (and Jordan) favorite Takashi Miike.
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The long wait is over. After a one year hiatus for economic and logistical reasons, the FanTasia International Film Festival is back (July 17-August 10, 2003).
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Sometimes it is a fine line between homage and imitation. With the plentiful allusions to George Romero’s classic zombie trilogy (Night of the Living Dead, 1968, Dawn of the Dead, 1979, and Day of the Dead, 1985) the line is perilously treaded in Danny Boyle’s latest pseudo zombie, science-fiction action thriller 28 Days Later.
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Director Teruo Ishii was a featured director at the 5th Udine Far East Film Festival. Curti analyzes Ishii's ero-guro (erotic-grotesque) cinema.
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The home video revolution, especially with the success of the DVD format and the massive availability of alternative cinemas in this format, has, for better or for worse, altered the function of the repertory theatre.
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Perhaps not the best giallo ever made, but an interesting entry into the female paranoia film.
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A long overdue look at Zulueta's lost cult classic, Arrebato.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies, actor turned director Bill Paxton turns in an unsettling religious horror film.
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A report on the fourth edition (2002) of one of the fastest growing Asian film festivals around.
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An interview with Montreal-based filmmaker Roshell Bissett on her first feature, the horror film Winter Lily.
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Should feminist scholarship be looking beyond American horror for a more varied representation of female desire and sexuality?
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Randolph Jordan summarizes Fantasia 2001 in light of the tragic event of 9/11, an event which may perhaps change how reality-based violence is treated in films and other forms of entertainment.
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Fantasia, in its 6th year, continues to grow and mature as an important and eclectic film festival.
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Offscreen presents for the first time in its orginal English language, this revised version of an essay that appeared in a French translation in Séquence magazine in 1995. Read on to see how Peter Jackson revolutionized horror (or comedy?) with his startling early feature films.
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Offscreen welcomes Randolph Jordan with his first of a two-part festival report on Fantasia 2001.
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Image Entertainment presents for the first time in North America, the uncut, English dub version of Mario Bava's gothic masterpiece, The Mask of Satan (re-titled Black Sunday by AIP for its US release in 1961).
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The definitive interview on one of Montreal's most notorious independent feature films, Subconscious Cruelty. Enough said.
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An in-depth festival report on the fifth installment of the Fantasia Film Festival (2000).
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Using the theories of Lacan, Freud, and Zizek, Gullatz explores the depth of psychic horror across a selection of classic and contemporary horror films.
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Interview with Republic of Korea director Park Ki-Hyung on his smash debut horror hit Whispering Corridors (1998).
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One of the most influential and important horror magazines, Fangoria horror magazine, selects Spanish director Nacho Cerda as one of the 13 rising Horror stars to keep on eye on.
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An in-depth interview with the director of the smash horror hit series Ring.
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Historically, Halloween has its origins with the ancient Druids, who believed that on the eve of All Saints' Day, the lord of the dead, Saman, would summon a host of evil spirits. In modern days the only evil spirits called on during Halloween (excluding all those little tyrants running around in costumes!) are those emanating from movie screens.
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My curiosity about a film entitled Burn, Witch, Burn has been peaked since the day I purchased an original one-sheet of the film in the mid-1970's. With the film still unavailable on video, I had written off the likelihood of every seeing the film.
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Brain Yuzna was one of many invited guests of the Montreal Fant-Asia 1998 Film Festival (July 10-August 9). Yuzna's two most recent films were featured in the festival's International section, Progeny and The Dentist 2.
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Brain Yuzna was one of many invited guests of the Montreal Fant-Asia 1998 Film Festival (July 10-August 9). Yuzna's two most recent films were featured in the festival's International section, Progeny and The Dentist 2.
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Brain Yuzna was one of many invited guests of the Montreal Fant-Asia 1998 Film Festival (July 10-August 9). Yuzna's two most recent films were featured in the festival's International section, Progeny and The Dentist 2.
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Brain Yuzna was one of many invited guests of the Montreal Fant-Asia 1998 Film Festival (July 10-August 9). Yuzna's two most recent films were featured in the festival's International section, Progeny and The Dentist 2.
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Interview conducted by Donato Totaro, Mitch Davis, and Jason J. Slater in Montreal, Canada during the 1999 Fantasia Film Festival. Photos taken by King-Wai Chou.
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Interview conducted by Donato Totaro, Mitch Davis, and Jason J. Slater in Montreal, Canada during the 1999 Fantasia Film Festival. Photos taken by King-Wai Chou.
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In two years short years, American Independent director Douglas Buck has becomes a Fant-Asia fan favorite for his uncompromising brand of “domestic horror”; Douglas Buck was back at Fant-Asia '98 with his short film Home , a companion piece of sorts to last year's Cutting Moments (the film that had people crying OUCH).
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The extreme levels of violence found in Hong Kong and Japanese films confounds many Western viewers because Western culture, unlike most Eastern cultures, tends to moralize violence. Read on for a cultural contextualisation of violence Asian style.
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