These days, the horror genre can only be rendered palatable to select members of society by suggesting that the horror they enjoy is, in some hard to define ways, ‘elevated’ beyond the confines of mere horror cinema. It’s a curious impulse, but it speaks to the way in which the horror genre still has the […]
2018’s as good as over, so it’s end of year review time. Having gone through this old routine a good few times already, Warped Perspective’s editors Ben Bussey and Keri O’Shea decided to take a different approach this year and get together for a virtual discussion of their favourite films of the year; and for […]
I’ll try to keep this as simple and concise as I can (not an easy task given my curse of verbal diarrhoea), for this is less an opinion piece than an outright demand: we, the British people – and yes, I do feel comfortable in presenting both myself and Warped Perspective co-editor Keri O’Shea as […]
Spoiler warning. It certainly doesn’t feel like ten years has passed since Pascal Laugier’s divisive horror film Martyrs first arrived, but the more I reflect on the state of horror cinema at the time of its release, the more I feel inclined to agree that ‘the past is a foreign country’. In 2008, horror cinema […]
Big props to fans for the effort, but I’m retired as Ash. #timetofrysomeotherfish https://t.co/Di1aeBV0dl — Bruce Campbell (@GroovyBruce) April 23, 2018 “Big props to fans for the effort, but I’m retired as Ash.” [Bruce Campbell on Twitter, 23th April 2018]. This message on the social networking site came in the wake of a wave of […]
And now, the end is near for 2017. In many respects we might say good riddance; however, we might also be thankful for what most of us seem to agree was a stellar year for film, in the multiplexes and the art houses, at the festivals, and on the home streaming platforms. The face of […]
To me, 2017 has been quite the bumper cinematic year. It helps that we’ve expanded our remit a bit here at Warped Perspective, so if you’ll forgive my indulgence, I’ve expanded my end of year list to fifteen films, plus special mentions. I’ve not been able to review or write about as many as I would […]
I’ll spare you the full preamble where I say how fast the year has flown, or that I haven’t been to the cinema as much as I’d have hoped, or that [current year] wasn’t all that great for films; in actual fact, I’ve seen some excellent films this year, in some cases from entirely unanticipated […]
An ancient curse, probably Chinese in origin, ran something like this: ‘May you live in interesting times’. It’s a wry old phrase. The insinuation is that when things get interesting, then it’s often a useful code for bad news, so via a play on meanings, and without saying so outright, it’s a hex that seethes […]
Warped Perspective editors Keri O’Shea and Ben Bussey both went out to see Darren Aronofsky’s mother! in recent days, and given it’s a film custom designed to prompt debate they decided to chat it out – and, by contrast with many earlier discussion pieces of this nature, the two come to it from opposite points […]
With the big screen adaptation of IT in cinemas now, and well on its way to becoming one of the most commercially successful horror movies of all time (not to mention a very good horror movie in its own right – read Keri’s review here), Warped Perspective editors Keri O’Shea and Ben Bussey sit down […]