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March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Lighthouse: Film
The Lighthouse Director: Robert Eggers A24 / Regency Enterprises / RT Features Robert Eggers made a splash with his re-imagining of ghost-story informed horror, The Witch and follows that up here with a gritty, grim period black-comedy/existential horror film – The Lighthouse. The psychological horror film is making a comeback and the timing is perfect […]Archive
February 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: I Used To Be Scared of Horror Films So I Watched Every Single One From The Local Video Store And Now I’m Cured
When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it just a few years after that. And in it, a pet alligator gets flushed down the loo. It ends up in the sewer where the bodies […]Archive
August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods…
I like movie soundtracks – score. I like ambient music. I like heavy metal. I particularly love when two or three of those things can come together to create a sinister, creeping – creepy – mood. A sustained sinister creeping – creepy – mood, even. So I wanted to explore that today via five favourites. Five Songs For Friday has […]Archive
October 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Daughters of Darkness (October 29)
The Wellington Film Society is back tonight – after last weekend’s pause for Labour Weekend. Here we are now with Halloween almost at the doorstep, as it were. And so…to Daughters of Darkness. Re-released more than a decade after its 1971 debut, Daughters of Darkness has lost none of the eerie, subterranean fascination it held for its […]Archive
August 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
John Carpenter: Anthology – Movie Themes 1974-1998
John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 Scared Bones Records John Carpenter – like John Waters – finds himself at 70 years of age and with one of the sideline aspects of his filmmaking career now being the new main revenue stream. For Waters it’s writing and delivering his one-man-show, for Carpenter it’s music. They’re both […]Archive
October 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 480
Ennio Morricone, The Thing [OST] (1982) I’ve always been into John Carpenter films – and a big part of it is the music, whether it’s by Carpenter or not. I love his scores. I saw The Thing when I was about 12 or 13 – one summer, a trip to Gisbourne; we’d rent loads of […]Archive
September 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Mother: Film
Mother! Director: Darren Aronofsky Paramount Pictures/Protozoa Pictures Making Black Swan look like a perfect rom-com for any date-night, Darren Aronofsky here sets up a taut, psychological horror that you at first think might play out along the lines of Don’t Look Now or – as is more oft-referenced – Rosemary’s Baby. There’s touches of Polanski […]Archive
September 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Neon Demon: Film
The Neon Demon Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Amazon Studios/Broad Green Pictures/Scanbox Entertainment Taking the colour scheme of his previous films – a palette that extends beyond lighting to the hue cast by the film’s score (Cliff Martinez with another, nearly film-saving soundtrack) – Nicholas Winding Refn now has a default-setting. The Neon Demon follows Only […]Archive
June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 682
Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Big Terror Movie Themes (1976) I didn’t know he was Geoff Love at the time – or rather didn’t know who he was, whoever was at the helm of so many of these things, but I loved the records I found in my grandparents’ collections. Both sets of the grannies […]Archive
April 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Hush: Film
Hush Director: Mike Flanagan Intrepid Pictures/Blumhouse Productions/Netflix Hush is being praised, and deservedly so, for being a trim, taut horror-thriller. There’s nothing new in the story – a stalker/home-invasion set-up with a remote location. But this doesn’t rely on being some overt homage either. There are nods – the film opens with a shot that […]Archive
March 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman