Pit Stop
Jack Hill’s follow up to Spider Baby transcends its budget, featuring a fine, offbeat cast and an intelligent approach to its subject matter.
Review by David Cairns
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Creepshow
The fact that Stephen King’s first original script remains minor points to Romero’s respect for King, and King’s lack of respect for cinema.
Review by David Cairns
The Conjuring
In his flawed Insidious follow-up, James Wan still manages to build on his evident gift of harnessing strong performances to a thrill ride.
Review by David Cairns
Spider Baby
Jack Hill’s uncategorisable cult nasty is part Old Dark House/Addams Family black comedy, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Eraserhead.
Review by David Cairns
Baron Blood
Mario Bava’s 1972 surprise hit grafts Gothic horror elements onto fashionable, groovy settings.
Review by David Cairns
Lisa and the Devil
In all of Mario Bava’s weird career, there may be nothing as peculiar as Lisa and the Devil.
Review by David Cairns
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is pleasurably Halloweeny, spooky and fun and gorgeously eerie, with just enough sheer nastiness to give it a slight edge.
Review by David Cairns
Santa Sangre
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surprise return in 1989 attempted to marry the director’s visionary, Felliniesque excess to the dying giallo genre.
Review by David Cairns
Rolling Thunder
‘Once you take out the perverse pathology of these characters, rather than becoming films about fascism they become fascist films’.
Review by David Cairns
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
John McNaughton characterised his acclaimed, controversial 1986 thriller, as a horror film using the technique of realism.
Review by David Cairns