You ever catch your dog staring aggressively into a corner of your house or your cat batting around an invisible ball? Spoiler alert: you’ve got ghosts. Between you and your pet stands centuries of ghostly entities ready to rip you to shreds, if wasn’t for ol’ Rover keeping them in check. You may not believe […]
A fairly solid point about Rawhead Rex is made in the accompanying press release for Arrow’s new Blu-ray edition. It’s long been said that Clive Barker, who wrote the screenplay from his own short story for director George Pavlou, was so appalled with the resulting film – not to mention their earlier collaboration, Underworld (AKA […]
Can you believe zombies are still a thing? Walking Dead is currently on its eighth season, Fear of the Walking Dead just wrapped up its third, and while the theaters are finally free from the zombie apocalypse, plenty of small companies are still pumping out movies and games and god knows what else. So what […]
The 1990s may have been a boom period for the psychological thriller, but it’s debatable as to just how fitting a description that is to many of the films classed as such. In Hollywood, the bulk of them tended to be half-baked Silence of the Lambs knock-offs or sensationalised Hitchcock updates; in either case, the […]
We receive a lot of films for consideration at Warped Perspective, and on occasion, we receive material which seems to be quite a way outside of the usual styles and genres we typically feature. This is, of course, no bad thing, and a film we received recently marked itself out as something altogether quieter and […]
Like most of us who were born into the late days of the 20th century, I grew up convinced that by the time I was an adult there’d be robots everywhere, either serving menial jobs and/or enforcing the law, or overthrowing mankind as the dominant life form on the planet. As with so many lost […]
Qian (Zitong Wu) and Aimo (Zhu Lin) are two Chinese students studying in London. In order to make some extra money, they take a weekend job at a country estate transcribing and translating old film footage of famed singer Susu (Junjie Mao). When the friends find things uncomfortable with their strange hosts, Shirley (Steve Edwin), […]
I know I’m far from the only one delighted to see that giant monsters have at last come back to the forefront of blockbuster cinema – and it’s intriguing to note how much of this is the handiwork of studio Warner Bros. They might still be finding their feet when it comes to their superhero […]
How times change. A decade ago, it might not have come as a surprise to see a horror film which opens on the Platinum Dunes logo top the box office on its opening weekend; but we certainly wouldn’t have expected it to be an all-new original work, much less – gasp – a good film. […]
As mentioned in my previous article about the cult hit anime Perfect Blue, there was once a strange and dark time where most anime fans didn’t seek a particular film or series; they merely stumbled upon them like a moth flying into a flame. And, much like Perfect Blue, some of the movies were less […]
Old Dark Houses are a horror cinema staple, bequeathed to the genre by Gothic literature, penny dreadfuls and all manner of other earlier terrors in print. Perhaps surprisingly, then, this particular Old Dark House (1932) is based on a J. B. Priestley novel, Benighted, written just five years previously. Priestley is better known for social […]