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Four Films: Autumnal Horror – Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Every Friday we are going to profile one of four different films a month that stick to a loose theme. The theme for October, and our first outing, is autumnal horror films. For the theme I looked for...
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Four Films: Autumnal Horror – Lady in White (1988)
Our second Autumnal Horror film is a ghost story told through a young boys point of view. The year is 1962 and two bullies lock Frankie in the school cloakroom on Halloween. He’s scared but content to...
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Four Films: Autumnal Horror – The Ring (2002)
An English language remake of the Japanese horror film Ringu (1998) and adaptation of the novel by Koji Suzuki, The Ring is probably the only remake of an Asian horror film that gets everything right...
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Four Films: Autumnal Horror – Halloween (1978)
If you could stop dropping knives, Laurie, that’d be great. I’m not going to say much about the seminal autumn horror film Halloween, except to say this: It shouldn’t really be on this list. Why?...
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Four Films: Time Travel – Back to the Future (1985)
If you tried to prank people at any time with a fake time circuit, EFF YOU! Yes, better than Eric Stoltz. This time 30 years ago, I was probably sitting in a theater watching Back to the Future (1985)...
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Four Films: Time Travel – The Terminator (1984)
I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum! And I’m all out of…I’m fighting the T-800? I have PLENTY of bubblegum! Four Films on Wednesday, he said, knowing no one gives a damn!? Well, yes, we’re moving...
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Four Films: Time Travel – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Our heroes’ normal look of thoughtful intelligence. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure brought something back to science fiction cinema that had been missing for some time: FUN! If you remember...
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Four Films: Time Travel – Looper (2012)
Stop touching yourself! Apparently one of the cardinal rules in time travel is that you shouldn’t have too much interaction with yourself along your own timeline, or you’ll screw things up. The plot...
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Four Films: Alternative Christmas – Black Christmas (1974)
You…HUSSEY! Horror? For Christmas? You’re damn right horror for Christmas! Especially a slasher film with the magnificent pedigree that Black Christmas (1974) has! Starring Olivia Hussey and Margot...
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Four Films: Alternative Christmas – L.A. Confidential (1997)
The majority of L.A. Confidential doesn’t take place at Christmas, but it’s very important beginning certainly does, and as far as I’m concerned, CHRISTMAS MOVIE! Besides all that, this is one of my...
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Four Films: Icebound – The Thing (1982)
They’ve got 99 problems, and this bitch is one. There are few horror films, or any other kind of film really, that can rival John Carpenter‘s 1982 version of The Thing for paranoia or tension. In a...
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Four Films: Icebound – The Hateful Eight (2015)
When you think about it, Quentin Tarantino‘s dialogue-heavy brand of film making lends itself very well to the notion that the environment has trapped you. Throw in a bit of mystery and, another...
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Four Films: Icebound – Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Okay, so there’s a bit of a reach of the “iceboundedness” of this particular title, but it’s there. And it’s in Smilla’s sense of snow that makes her a worthy adversary in the seas off the coast of...
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Four Films: Icebound – The Dark Valley (2014)
An Alpine-set, German language film starring an Englishman and, it’s a Western? With that kind of pedigree, The Dark Valley should have fallen flat on its ass, and while it doesn’t soar to the moody...
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