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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Newton Brothers: Dr Sleep [OST]
The Newton Brothers Dr Sleep (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music I’ve yet to read the book, but I probably will since I’m gearing up to dive deep back into the world of Stephen King – but I saw the film and liked the film, particularly given it had a lot to live up to, […]Archive
September 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: 2020 Vision – Watching Horror Movies in 2020
all those horror films are going to rot your brain – that was always the line, always the worry now I line them up, mow through the lot, waiting as if at the end of my rope – rotting the brain now this year’s best hopeArchive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites
On a big horror kick right now. I feel like I have been on a big horror movie kick since I was 13. That’s when I conquered any fear of being frightened by overdosing on horror films. The good, the bad, the ugly. Now I’m catching up on some classics I haven’t seen – or […]Archive
July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Poem About The Shining
I watched The Shining again. Perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. And I’m ordering a book to read about the film and noticing my copy of Stephen King’s novel up there on […]Archive
March 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Clown: DVD
Clown Director: Eric Forsberg The Global Asylum LLC / Vendetta Timed, no doubt, to cash in on the latest rekindling of Pennwise via the rebrand-reboot of the IT franchise and of course the standalone Batman villain origin story, this attempted horror is more shocker than shock-filled.Archive
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