Dutch Horror Essentials
Continuing with my “Essentials” horror surveys (see here, here, here and here for the others) we arrive at the Netherlands, which isn’t exactly a hotbed for horror fare
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
What’s in My Halloween Bag…
What follows is a more-or-less random selection of Halloween-themed ephemera
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
NASTY
Director Paul Chart, of the psycho-thriller classic AMERICAN PERFEKT, can always be counted on for the unexpected, and unexpected is indeed the word for NASTY
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
The spirit of Dario Argento, spiced with more than a hint of the anything-goes vibe of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s HAUSU, is evident in this British made, Italian language oddity from 2018
On CUTTING MOMENTS
1996’s “Cutting Moments” is, quite simply, one of the most powerful short films of any sort to emerge in the last 30 years
The Undying Horror of the Refrigerator!
In the lexicon of household appliances the refrigerator is King Kong and Godzilla put together