Suitable Flesh
SimilarBig (1988), Crash (1996),
Watch afterAvatar: The Way of Water (2022) Evil Dead Rise (2023), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Leave the World Behind (2023), Saw X (2023), The Creator (2023), Top Gun: Maverick (2022),
There have been numerous film adaptations of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, featuring everyone from Sandra Dee (The Dunwich Horror) to Nicolas Cage (Color Out of Space). However, it was the late filmmaker Stuart Gordon who best managed to capture the peculiar and often perverse charms of Lovecraft’s work. With their combination of weirdo humor, bizarre imagery, kinky sex, grisly bloodshed and better-than-expected performances, his Re-Animator and From Beyond became instant cult classics and unquestioned high points of the entire horror genre in the 1980s. Continue Reading →
Past Lives
SimilarA Bronx Tale (1993), A Real Young Girl (1976), Copying Beethoven (2006), The Holiday (2006),
Watch afterBlue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) The Flash (2023), tick tick... BOOM! (2021),
It doesn’t take much for someone who once meant a whole lot to you to creep into your thoughts every now and then. It’s not an everyday obsessive thing, where they’re a shadow lingering over you. It’s softer, more subtle: a snippet of a song, or something that reminds you of a private joke once shared. Even if the fire has long burned out, an ember or two will glow for an instant. Then it’s gone, and the life you’ve lived without them goes on. Continue Reading →
El hombre del saco
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989), Anatomy of a Murder (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Charley Varrick (1973), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977),
War of the Worlds (2005) Studio20th Century Studios, 21 Laps Entertainment,
What did your boogeyman look like? Continue Reading →