And on the telly tonight at 9pm, in the UK, The Ritual makes it debut on Film4. If you haven’t seen the film on Netflix, this is an opportunity to let your mind travel to a northern wilderness, to appreciate…
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Saluting the Russells with both horns on scoring Best Creature FX from the awards where the carpet is not only red but also wet. On the shoot, they invited me inside their trailer on the mountain in Transylvania and it…
Again, my recs have built up since the blog has been down. So I am listing some highlights here for those of you not on my mailing list or who don’t follow me in S.M. Chernobyl: I never expected to…
“She is your god, and you will kneel before the god. If not, it will hang you from the trees”. Delighted to see our God exalted here. And Moder/the Jotunn takes its place in the pantheon here.
I’ve been delighted to see this kind of peer recognition and approval for David Bruckner and Imaginarium, the makers of the film. Good precis of it here at IndieWire. It was a first full feature for each of them and…
FILMS RECS: the Quietus asked me for a piece on my favourite horror films, so I’ve assembled a Baker’s Dozen of personal highlights that I’ve seen in the last few years (even though one was made in 2006). Rather than…