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Faces of Fear - Jennifer
"Suck it, bitch!" How the turns tables! Our seemingly sweet, sophisticated women’s magazine writer Jennifer has had enough. Having been...
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Feb 19, 20231 min read


Movies: Vengeance
As social commentary goes, Vengeance opens with a vacuous conversation between main character Ben, a journalist, and singer John Mayer,...
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Feb 18, 20233 min read


Faces of Fear - Sue
"We're not trying to hurt her ... We're trying to help her!" Sue is our survivor. She has tried and tried as best she can to involve...
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Feb 13, 20231 min read


Faces of Fear - Alan
"Think of the film, Alan, think of the film!" The leader of a group of documentarians, Alan Yates, is shown in found footage finally...
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Feb 6, 20231 min read


Movies: Tar
My first impression of Todd Field's film was that the world of classical music and composition was beyond anything I could ever really...
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Feb 4, 20233 min read


Faces of Fear - Nancy
"I brought something out from my dream ." The ultimate final girl is trying to understand the bizarre happenings between her dreams and...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read


Movies: The Forgiven
Based on Lawrence Osborne’s novel, John Michael McDonagh’s film incorporates themes of debauchery, excess, narcissism, abuse, law...
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Jan 26, 20232 min read


Faces of Fear - Sadie
"You better get out of here … Get away from me! " The climatic ending to 'Last House on the Left' has begun. The father of a murdered...
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Jan 23, 20231 min read


Nasty Video - Part 2
I Spit On Your Grave was made towards the end of the 1970s, but was more widely released in the early 80s at a time when home video was...
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Jan 16, 202310 min read


Nasty Video - Part 1
In the world of film there is the horror genre, but among that are also a number of subgenres. I’m not just talking cross over horror...
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Jan 3, 20236 min read


In The Frame
In the film The Shop Around The Corner there is a lovely, though sorrowful little scene where Margaret Sullivan is shown placing her hand...
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Nov 27, 20223 min read


A Pornographic Argument
Recently I broached a subject to my husband that we frankly did not seem to agree on: I argued that pornography, primarily, is the only...
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Oct 21, 20224 min read


Meshes: The Art of Maya Deren
This post is about the surrealist and avant garde film made by artist/film maker Maya Deren. I viewed her film Meshes of the Afternoon in...
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Apr 2, 20221 min read


Movies: 'Brief Encounter'
Brief Encounter was first brought to my attention in a Cinema and Sound lecture at university. Music and sound is particularly important...
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Apr 22, 20217 min read


Movies: 'M'
I came across the film ‘M’ after reading about the notorious child killer and cannibal Albert Fish (yikes!). The connections were based...
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Dec 7, 20202 min read


Movie: 'Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'
One Christmas Eve, late at night, during my childhood years I witnessed my first dose of Russ Meyer's work. At this point, my tiny...
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Oct 13, 20203 min read


Film Music
It is not that music and sound is necessary to include in all films, but part of what can make a film a work of art, and part of what...
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Aug 31, 20204 min read


Movies: Island of Death
Forget your Italian giallo horror, here come the Greeks! Island of Death became one of the most notorious films on the video nasty list...
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Aug 19, 20202 min read


Movies: 'Faces Of Death'
Faces of Death was released in the 1970s, as part of the decade’s Mondo film emergence (courtesy of Italy). Mondo, meaning ‘World’ in...
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Jul 28, 20205 min read


Films: Micheal Haneke
Michael Haneke is an Austrian filmmaker, whose work predominantly focusses on the subject of voyeurism and teen violence, and...
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May 16, 20206 min read
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