Horror films have always tiptoed around or bludgeoned straight on through modes of stimulation and fright. Wish-fulfillment sex and violence make for fascinating bedfellows and always have, and this list will please both genre fans and those looking for a chilling provocation. Many of the films listed here are polarizing, which should come as a […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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The 25 Best Movies About Forbidden Love
Forbidden love is a tantalizing topic for cineastes, offering compelling melodrama, and escapist diversion with aplomb. Who doesn’t like to get swept up in passion’s throes, often while defying convention and shattering taboos? The following list looks at the best examples of proscribed affection and clandestine love, where the stakes are high and a box […]
Pulling Focus: Suspiria (1977)
“The ultimate cocaine movie.” – Nicolas Winding Refn Season of the witch A nightmare fairytale fantasia from start to finish, the spine-chilling 1977 masterpiece from Italian auteur Dario Argento, Suspiria remains an unassailable experience in sensory cinema. With its crazily choreographed camera movements, striking operatic visuals and knowing nods to Hollywood classics, Suspiria is […]
Pulling Focus: Double Indemnity (1944) & Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
“Since Double Indemnity, the two most important words in motion pictures are ‘Billy’ and ‘Wilder.’” – Alfred Hitchcock Double, double, toil, and trouble Depending on who you ask, Double Indemnity –– one of the earliest A-budget studio noirs –– and the hard-boiled desperate dame and greedy man at its black and broken center, may […]
Pulling Focus: Blue Ruin (2013)
Tangled up in blue The terra incognita ferociousness on shrewd display in Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin is a revelation. This small-scale genre picture, partially funded via Kickstarter, is a bloodstained revenge runs awry report, and it adds further evidence that American indie cinema is alive and well, even if the same cannot be said for […]
Pulling Focus: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) & Trouble Every Day (2001)
Spooky action at a distance “Well, that certainly was visual,” deadpans an ashen yet elegant Eve after watching an amiable confrere disintegrate in a cistern of acid. Eve, a vampire, played by the exquisite Tilda Swinton, is one half of an immortal dyad, whose husband, Adam, is portrayed by an incurably cool Tom Hiddleston in […]