Crashed The Invite
Facebook saw that post I did about David Cronenberg’s Crash on here and it’s invited me to ‘create an event’. The mind boggles…
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What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)
‘Crash’ is quite a different movie in 2024. I hadn’t expected that when I sat down to watch it again. Like the ‘unfilmable’ book it’s based on, David Cronenberg’s movie caused outrage from both the political right and left. I always think art has hit pay dirt whenever that happens, drilled down to something deep. […]
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David Cameron’s favourite eighties movie, according to Amazon Prime’s trivia. However, I didn’t let the former prime minister’s approval put me off. Eyes Of Fire is about some European settlers transgressing taboo land and features a patriarchal character full of belief in his abilities but lacking any sense or spine. Weird how the art we […]
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QUEST (1984). Saul Bass is rightly famous for his title sequence designs for Hitchcock and Kubrick but he also turned his hand at film making, like this short fantasy/sci—fi movie based on a Ray Bradbury tale. Humans live for only eight days on a strange world, but they send a boy on a quest to […]
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Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as […]
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THE UFO INCIDENT (1975): James Earl Jones utterly sells this made for TV film about the first alien abduction claim. It’s more of a human drama than a creature feature. The abductees, Betty and Barney Hill were an interracial married couple in early sixties America (something I never knew when I read about it in […]
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If you’ve read my fantasy novels you’ll have guessed I’m a sucker for folk horror, particularly the historical kind. I’ve even developed a kind of ritual whenever a promising new movie in the folk horror genre appears. This ritual I call ‘Folk Horror and Thai Takeaway Night’ on account I had a Thai takeaway the […]
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