Tag: cult movies

• A Deliciously Macabre Cult Movie

    The best horror movie I’ve seen in a while is called The Stranger From Afar, or it’s original name, Marebito. Here are excerpts from a review on Midnight Eye:  “Can I face the terror to which the only escape is to kill myself?” Shinya Tsukamoto, director of the cult films Tetsuo and A Snake…

  Bill Ectric

  July 7, 2018

  cult movies, dero, detrimental robot, Film, Hollow Earth, horror, Japanese Film, macabre, Marebito, Midnight Eye, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Shinya Tsukamoto, Takashi Shimizu, The Stranger From Afar, underground

• The Magician Is Not Lost

  In an earlier blog post I said the 1926 movie, The Magician, was a lost film. I was wrong. I’m not the only one who thought so.  On the Movie Magg blog, Mark Gabrish Conlan says, “Our ‘feature’ last night was a movie I was startled to see on TCM’s schedule last Sunday because I’d thought (based…

  Bill Ectric

  December 24, 2011

  Alice Terry, cult movies, Mark Gabrish Conlan, Movie Magg, movie reviews, Oliver Haddo, Paul Wegener, Rex Ingram, Somerset Maugham, The Magician

• SUSPIRIA

  Suspiria (1977, directed by Dario Argento) is one of the most visually pleasing horror films I have ever seen. Almost every frame is an artistic composition. In kinoeye, Linda Schulte-Sasse analyses the movie, discussing the use of gothic spaces, references to fascism, and the film’s eligibility for being “Disney’s hidden reverse.” Read entire article

  Bill Ectric

  April 21, 2011

  cult movies, Dario Argento, Film Studies, horror movies, kinoeye, Linda Schulte-Sasse, Suspiria