“No one makes movies like [Cronenberg].” – Martin Scorsese Long live the new flesh! Part aphrodisiac and part body horror hallucination, Videodrome is a sensual, shocking, and scary tour de force from Canadian iconoclast David Cronenberg. Embellishing and protracting his persistent interests in viral transference and the body as a collective and biological theater […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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The 25 Most Artistic Horror Movies of All Time
Due to the often exploitative nature of horror films and the upsetting ideas they often provoke, the artistic merits, technical skill, and aesthetic intentions behind them can often be diluted or overlooked entirely. As with most populist filmmaking there’s always an influx of artless, derivative and profit-motivated work that discredits the real artist and auteurs […]
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The 30 Best Horror Movies of All Time
Halloween is almost upon us, so what better time to round-up a list of the most scariest films of all time? Before diving into these suspense-filled nightmares carefully wed to celluloid let’s take care of a little house cleaning to clarify how such daunting a task of presenting only 30 films under the banner of […]
Pulling Focus: Carrie (1976)
“Carrie effortlessly straddles, and frequently blurs, the line between exploitation trash and serious-minded cinema” – Paul O’Callaghan, BFI They’re all gonna laugh at you! Following after the minor successes of Sisters (1973), Phantom of the Paradise (1974)––which would eventually have a substantial cult following––and Obsession (1976), Carrie would prove, once and for all, that […]
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The 15 Best Movies of 2016 at VIFF
Now that the sun has set on the 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (which ran from September 29th to October 14th, 2016), Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from what was a bustling, exciting, and very impressive festival. The films on this list show a wide-ranging assortment including animation, auteur-driven films, populist fare, […]
Pulling Focus: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
“Death is not the worst. There are things more horrible than death.” – Count Dracula (played by Klaus Kinski) Blood on your cool Pronounced and menacing, Werner Herzog’s redaction of Nosferatu should not be viewed, as he insists, as a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror classic of German silent cinema––what Herzog describes as […]