Items Matching Tag 'Nosferatu'

Island of Death artwork announced
If you have seen Video Nasties: the Definitive Guide, you may have noticed a trailer for a film called The Devils in Mykonos, known in the UK as Island of Death, one of the least well-known of the DPP's banned list. Anyway, the film has never been...
Posted by David Beckett

The Beyond Blu-ray and DVD specs announced
ONLY DEATH AWAITS IN THE BEYOND! Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece of face chewing Spider action, milky eyed psychics, face melting embalming fluid and rotted, flesh-crazed Zombies returns in all its blood splattered, surreal and grossly disturbing glory...
Posted by David Beckett

A day I'd rather forget
Well, that was a weird old day! This morning, my care team leader (I'm a tetraplegic who requires 24/7 nursing care) who, along with my GP, was concerned that I was not shifting my second bout of Clostridium difficile so told me I should be...
Posted by David Beckett

Top 10 Vampire Movies
The vampire is the monster with the longest literary heritage, with the first story, The Vampyre, written by John Polidori at the same 'writer's retreat' at which Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley penned Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Probably the...
Posted by David Beckett

My Top 10 Zombie Movies
Zombies are dissimilar to other horror icons as they, unlike Dracula or Frankenstein's monster, don't really have any background in Gothic literature. Zombies are strange, shambling and unkempt figures who are really the walking dead. They are the...
Posted by David Beckett

3-D: Wave of the Future or Fad?
As more and more filmmakers decide to try their hand at stereoscopic entertainment, the more and more sick of 3-D I become. What was once a novelty, where only one screen in my local Cineworld would have a 3-D film, where you pay extra money for the...
Posted by David Beckett

Why Horror?
As my parents can’t stand horror films and my brother is largely impassive to them, I’ve often wondered and have been frequently asked why I like horror films so much. The following ramble is a vain attempt to explain this. As I said in Becoming a...
Posted by David Beckett

Becoming a Film Addict: Part 2
The previous 'Becoming a Film Addict' seemed to go down well and, looking back on it, the article seemed a little perfunctory.  I have thought about it some more and this is an expansion on Part 1. This addiction to film and DVDs led me, following...
Posted by David Beckett

Oscar Predictions 2010
As I had finished my Master’s in September I was free this year to spend more time in the cinema and see all of the contenders possible.  There are a couple that haven’t been release or shown around here – The Blindside will only hit UK cinemas after...
Posted by David Beckett

Becoming a Film Addict: Part 1
For many people, a love of film and cinema was developed from a very young age with weekly (or even more frequent) trips to the local picture house with parents or other relatives. Others may have picked up that habit from friends and relatives at...
Posted by David Beckett

My Top 10 Favourite Horror Films
In the spirit of Halloween I’ve decided to go through my collection and try and work out (in the style of High Fidelity) my top ten all time favourite horror films.  I’ve had in mind those that would go into the list and have been slowly reviewing...
Posted by David Beckett

A Solution to the Remake 'Problem'
I recently read that there is a remake of Dario Argento’s classic 1977 horror Suspiria in the works with Natalie Portman highly touted to play the Suzy Bannion role and Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green writing the screenplay.  This is the...
Posted by David Beckett

So, what exactly is a Giallo?
With the first batch of Arrow’s Masters of Giallo DVDs out today and Shameless Screen Entertainment preparing to release Footsteps, a little-known giallo to add to their already impressive collection, most people will be wondering ‘what is a giallo ?’...
Posted by David Beckett

Masters of Giallo DVDs out June 29th
True horror fans can prepare to rejoice. The undead spirit of the "video nasty" and some of the best examples of Italian exploitation cinema are about to be raised from the grave and reborn on DVD courtesy of Arrow Video's forthcoming Masters of...
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The Faux Documentary and 'Found Footage' Horror Film
There are filmmakers whose names are legendary for inventing cinematic techniques that influence motion pictures to this day.  Men like Sergei Eisenstein for his dialectic montage, D.W. Griffith for pioneering the twin narrative structure of...
Posted by David Beckett

What I Watched This Week (w/e October 19th 2008)
Blu-ray No Country For Old Men – I enjoyed it at the cinema, again on DVD and the Blu-ray Disc looks and sounds fantastic. The film was one of the best of last year, is one of the Coens’ finest works and I look forward to seeing Burn After Reading....
Posted by David Beckett

What film did it for you?
Was there a film that turned you into a film addict? Was there a time when you saw something, either at home or at the cinema, that made you think "I...
Posted by David Beckett