80s cinema – Warped Perspective

Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)

Posted on November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 by Keri O'Shea

I’ve really only encountered director Jim Van Bebber thus far through his art-house spin on The Manson Family (1997), a film which I confess didn’t quite gel with me – but I’ve never, until now, seen his first feature Deadbeat at Dawn, made around a decade earlier but filmed over four years altogether. Deadbeat at […]

Revisiting Waxwork (1988)

Posted on March 3, 2018March 7, 2022 by Keri O'Shea

There has long been a relationship between horror cinema and the humble waxwork museum. Though now sadly fallen out of favour, waxworks were a de rigeur form of entertainment before cinema existed; the world-famous Madame Tussauds opened its first ‘chamber of horrors’ in 1802 after the successes of the French ‘Caverne des Grands Voleurs’, which […]