Film review — The Last Matinee
It’s very pleased with itself, despite its depressingly obvious influences. All sizzle and no steak. Also, when will modern horror film-makers realise that gruesome does not equal fearsome? More…
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It’s very pleased with itself, despite its depressingly obvious influences. All sizzle and no steak. Also, when will modern horror film-makers realise that gruesome does not equal fearsome? More…
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I can’t help but see this as a genre-specific deep-dive companion piece to Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film project. It’s clearly made by someone with a solid sense of the sociopolitical context of horror (I was going to say ‘horror cinema’, but this covers plenty of made-for-TV productions in its wide remit) and interprets folk horror in particular as an idea that varies depending on its cultural milieu (in Britain, age against youth, urban against rural and so on; but a post-colonial spectre in America and Australia) yet sharing common threads, like the tension between ‘tradition’ and ‘progress’. More…
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