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NOSFERATU

December 24, 2024 By Leave a Comment

NOSFERATU

David Eggers, who has a vision of such specific originality and clarity that it might well become a horror subgenre at some point, has taken on not just one iconic film in NOSFERATU, but two, both of whose imagery have become part of the cultural landscape even for those who have never seen NOSFERATU (1922)… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, Dracula, Germany, necrophilia, objectification of women, pagan ritual, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, undead, vampire

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

June 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

THE DEAD DON’T DIE takes the tropes, idioms, and beloved foibles of low-budget zombie flicks and, with a skillful flick of its auteur’s cinematic wrist, recontextualizes them into a stylized gloss on the new normal of 2019.  Certainly the “Make America White Again” ball cap sported by the most reviled citizen (Steve Buscemi) of sleepy… Read More »

Tagged With: homage, horror, police, small town, spoof, undead, zombies

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

Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright Gift Us with SHAUN OF THE DEAD

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright Gift Us with SHAUN OF THE DEAD

Click here to listen to the interview. Co-screenwriters Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, star and director respectively, of SHAUN OF THE DEAD were, you’ll pardon the expression, dead tired when I chatted with them on August 12, 2004. They’d been up late the night before doing a smashingly successful Q&A at a preview screening of… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, comedy, Cornetto Trilogy, cult status, DAWN OF THE DEAD, Edgar Wright, end of the world. interpersonal probles, George Romero, horror, narrative, philosophy, Simon Pegg, undead, zombies

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