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May 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Halloween Kills: DVD
Halloween Kills Director: David Gordon Green Universal Sony Pictures P/I I finally caught up with Halloween Kills – now streaming and on DVD, I had missed its brief cinema run and was disappointed, having rewatched most of the franchise in anticipation.Archive
March 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Reading The Back Cover
In horror movies the villain always comes back. This is because the villain is actually the hero. It’s the special secret of horror films. Special, because it’s not so secret. In life you can never go back, you shouldn’t go back – leave a flat or finish a job or end a relationship and that […]Archive
January 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Scream (5): Film
Scream Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Spyglass Media Group / Project X Entertainment / Paramount Pictures Scream (aka Scream 5) is both sequel and reboot – a “requel” as the very knowing and cracking-good script tells us. It features the big names from the original – back as second-generation helpers. And of course a […]Archive
October 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of The “Final Girl” Trope
The “Final Girl” is a trope in horror films – the term was coined by academic, Carol Jeanne Clover in her 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A brilliant examination of the slasher boom across the mid-70s and 1980s. The “Final Girl” trope is something I’ve been aware of […]Archive
August 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 23: Misery
I first saw Misery when it came out on VHS tape. I remember it vividly. If it wasn’t the first Stephen King adaptation I saw, it was the first to have real impact. I was in Gisborne, summer holidays. A small bunch of us staying at a friend’s house, watching Return of the Living Dead […]Archive
June 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Nightmares On Mainstream
The finger knives were the thing that hooked us, if you’ll pardon that obvious pun. We were so into Freddy – a horror ghoul with no heart and soul of his own, but he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they made Elm […]Archive
March 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman