In the eyes of many the horror genre is a lower form of cinema, often regarded simply as cheap and easy thrills that exploit the most unsavoury tastes of filmgoing audiences. This can even be seen evidenced in recent years with the proliferation of films labelled as “elevated horror”, such as the work of Ari […]
Year: 2020
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10 Forgotten Film Masterpieces That Need To Be Rediscovered
There are an obscene amount of movies out there in the wild. A lot of these movies go on to earn the recognition they deserve. Decades later, people are still talking about Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Samurai, Breathless, and The Godfather. If you were to look up a list of movie classics, you’d find […]
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10 Great 1990s Horror Movies You May Have Never Seen
Depending who you ask the 1990s was a rather lacklustre decade for horror. I’m more of the opinion that, following the horror renaissance of the 80s, it may have been a less impactful time for genre enthusiasts for a little while, but it would also see a resurgence in the slasher subgenre (thanks to Wes […]
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10 Great Weird Films No One Talks About
What is it that makes a film “weird”? Really, the term “weird film” is one that’s thrown around almost every day, and could mean many different things to many different. It could refer to anything from a film that simply evokes some trippy imagery or plays around with the conventions of its genre, to a […]
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10 Great 1980s Horror Movies You May Have Never Seen
Like a lot of kids, growing up in the 1980s with my kid brother, we spent a great deal of time watching wonderfully inappropriate horror films, mostly on pay TV, late night cable or with parental permission, renting them from the local video store. Peeking through fingers, knowing we shouldn’t be seeing what we were […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Neo-Noir Films of The 2000s
We can’t stop loving film noirs, because we can’t get enough of psychological crime thriller dramas with a distinctive tone and style. Neo-noir is a revival of the genre of film noir; the term itself was popularized in 1955 by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton. Neo-noir is basically an updated version of those […]