Film fans recently received the sad news that the legendary British genre filmmaker Mike Hodges had passed away at the age of 90.
Hodges’ name isn’t brought up as often as it should, which is partially because of how versatile his filmography was.
Between the tongue-in-cheek science fiction opera Flash Gordon, the low-level gambling thriller Croupier, the dark mystery comedy Pulp, the horror sequel Damien: Omen II, and the psychological thriller Black Rainbow, Hodges took chances on different genres, and generally found success in them all.
However, his crowning achievement was actually his debut film; 1971’s Get Carter isn’t just one of the best crime thrillers ever made, but a film that essentially created the neo-noir revenge style that so many modern filmmakers have adopted.
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