Tag: Dario Argento
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‘The Omen’ Is Everything That Makes ’70s Horror Great
The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade’s abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences…
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The Best Witch Movies, from ‘Suspiria’ to ‘Hocus Pocus’ to ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’
From an evil queen pondering “Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who is the fairest of them all?” to Three Weird Sisters chanting “Double, double toil and trouble! Fire burn, and cauldron bubble,” witchcraft has been something of a skeleton key across centuries of storytelling on screen and in print. As old as ghost stories themselves,…
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These Are the Scariest 5 Minutes in Any Giallo Horror Movie
Before horror’s slasher craze of the 1980s came another subgenre that took over the imagination of fright fans: giallo. The Italian style of horror, which had its heyday during the late ’60s and into the mid -’70s, didn’t have the popularity of later American slasher films, but its uniqueness helped to inspire what was to…
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Medusa review – body fascists on the loose in heady satire on Brazil’s police state
Anita Rocha da Silveira’s genre-bending tale of masked religious vigilantes is a genre film with something to sayWith its squishy synth soundtrack, candy-coloured teen environs and role-playing girl-gang violence, this second feature from Brazilian writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira feels like a time-warped precursor to Heathers, Clueless and The Neon Demon. It’s a satirical nightmare…
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‘The Omen’ Is Everything That Makes ’70s Horror Great
The 1970s unleashed a wave of classics upon the movie-going world. Indisputably a momentous era in the history of cinema across the world at large, the decade’s abundance of creative horror outings is similarly undeniable. Some of the movies hailing from the timeframe became overnight, epoch-defining sensations — instant classics lapped up by casual audiences…