What do you need for the perfect Christmas Day? Quick checklist: “Wait, what?” I hear you cry, having reached the last two of those. Since when have simmering hate-fuck sexual tension and…
Category: REVIEWS
REVIEW: Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson (Hachette) – Neil Fulwood
Cassandra Peterson has had quite the life. Bullying mother. Rough diamond father. Traumatic childhood accident (pan; boiling water). Socially awkward. Suddenly voluptuous. Go-go dancer in her mid-teens. Showgirl while still a good…
ELEGY IN A ZOMBIE-INFESTED CHURCHYARD: THE WEIRD AESTHETIC OF REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE – Lucy Bellingham
What’s the weirdest zombie film you’ve ever seen? Zombeavers? Fido? Anna and the Apocalypse? I’ll see you and I’ll raise you: David Gladwell’s Requiem for a Village. Gladwell is mainly remembered as the editor of Lindsay…
LANDSCAPE AND MINDSCAPE: The fragmented spaces of Donald Cammell’s ‘White of the Eye’
Following their collaboration on Performance – arguably the most influential counter-culture film to come out of the UK in the ‘70s – Nic Roeg went on to make 16 feature films, various shorts, and…
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL? – HAUSU AND THE COMPLETE DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSES
About twenty minutes into Hausu – which translates, fairly obviously, as House, but which I’m going to refer to Hausu throughout this review purely to piss off autocorrect – seven friends hop off a train at a…