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UNDINE

May 12, 2021 By Leave a Comment

UNDINE

At no point in Christian Petzold’s UNDINE do we encounter anything as pedestrian as a character discussing the nature of the supernatural creature at the heart of this exquisitely enigmatic, emotionally intense film. Rather, we are left to ponder just what the nature of our title character is on a more human level. Whether or… Read More »

Tagged With: CATFISH, folklore, Germany, selkie, supernatural

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

September 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MISS PEREGRINE’S SCHOOL FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

I have not read the eponymous novel on which MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Is based, but a quick check of the of the Wikipedia entry for it reveals that for the screen adaptation many of the characters have been modified and plot point changed. This is not uncommon, and when the original source… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, grandfather-grandson, monsters, needle-like teeth, Peculiars, supernatural, time travel

BLAIR WITCH

September 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

BLAIR WITCH

Once again college kids with video cameras march into the dark piney woods in search of something better left undisturbed.  Unlike previous attempts to capture the lightning in a bottle that was the original BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, attempts that went down in flames, writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard have taken the found-footage format… Read More »

Tagged With: campfire, found-footage genre, hot dogs, lost in the woods, sequel, stick figure, supernatural, witch

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE ( Der Vampir auf der Couch)

June 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE ( Der Vampir auf der Couch)

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE is a droll and loving homage to those classic Universal horror films from the 1930s. This is not pastiche, though. The gothic castle awash in spectral moonlight vies with a dash of Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, and a feminist attitude that is the perfect foil for the king of Penis Envy himself, Sigmund… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s Vienna, comedy, homage.vampire, psychoanalysis, reincarnation, romance, Sigmund Freud, socophobia, spoof, supernatural, undead

MARK OF THE WITCH

May 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MARK OF THE WITCH

If Jason Bognacki had focused his undeniable give for arresting visuals while making MARK OF THE WITCH (aka ANOTHER), he would have made a poetically disturbing film about the sins of the parents being visited on their children. Instead, he has cobbled long swaths of irksome exposition into a horror film that grows tedious before… Read More »

Tagged With: amnesia, Family, Jason Bognacki, rituals, supernatural

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

April 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is a film that plays with its audience’s sense of normality. Beginning in the conventional and slowly, almost imperceptibly, moving us from the quotidian drama of a kidnapped child and a father’s unconditional love, into a boldly unconventional consideration of that elusive point where science and spirituality merge. There is nothing predictable here,… Read More »

Tagged With: child abduction, end times, father-son, FBI, NSA, supernatural

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

Whatever else AS ABOVE SO BELOW has to recommend it, and it has several things that eminently do so, it has breathed a little fresh air into the found footage genre of horror film. This is a tidy little horror film heavy on mood, light on gore, and bursting with a refreshing originality of story… Read More »

Tagged With: alchemy, artifact, catacombs, eerie, Emerald Tablet, Hermes Trismegistus, linguist, paranormal, Paris, Philosopher's Stone, piles of bones, supernatural

OUIJA

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

OUIJA

I have several Halloween rituals, one of which is to seek out the seasonal schlock horror film. There is almost always one low-budget groaner released for a quick buck and a putative future in the secondary market of home video. My reasons are two-fold. Sometimes there is a pleasant surprise to be found in the… Read More »

Tagged With: haunting, horror, occult, supernatural, teen suicide

LEGION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LEGION

LEGION is an incoherent flick positing, amid all the apocalyptic mayhem, that the Almighty is out of touch with His/Her inner Deity. It may be a juicy mystery that passeth all understanding to make theologians quiver with the delight of unraveling it, but as a premise for a movie, it’s incoherent. That it also attempts… Read More »

Tagged With: angels, end times, father-son, religion, salvation, supernatural

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 begins with a bang and doesn’’t stop. Starting right where the last film ended, it barely has time to catch its breath, or go into florid exposition, before diving right into the final face-off between the boy, now man, wizard (Daniel Radcliffe), embodiment of all that is… Read More »

Tagged With: action, book to screen, finale, magic, sequel, supernatural

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