Weird and Wonderful Christmas Cinema from Around the World
A much-needed addendum to a previous essay, with an overview of weird holiday-themed films emerging from around the world
CHRISTMAS CRUELTY!
As of 2020 this no-budgeter is very likely the nastiest Christmas-themed horror movie ever made
SOLDIER BLUE
Perhaps the most infamous of the many revisionist westerns churned out by Hollywood in the early seventies
THE CELL at 20
On THE CELL (2000) and the effects, pro and con, of controversy
THE SURVIVOR
A novel that directly foreshadows both the FINAL DESTINATION franchise and THE SIXTH SENSE
Zombie Media in the 1990s
By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film
POSSESSOR
The second feature by Brandon Cronenberg, who as in his first (2012’s ANTIVIRAL), created a film that’s heavily informed by the work of his father David
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
The Films of Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point