creature features – Warped Perspective

“Some Thing Has Found Us”: Cloverfield – a Retrospective

Posted on July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 by Gabby Foor

Ahead of writing up this piece, I did a small social experiment with Cloverfield to gauge how audiences felt about it 15 years after, and nearly 400 comments within two hours later, the movie still draws a crowd, and opinions so strong I wasn’t ready for the wave. Takes range from it being the most […]

“When he gets hungry, someone gets killed”: a loving tribute to Brain Damage (1988)

Posted on August 2, 2018August 1, 2018 by Keri O'Shea

If you didn’t already know from your experience of watching Basket Case that bad things are almost certainly around the corner, then you could be forgiven for thinking that the beginning of Brain Damage (1988) features a perfectly respectable elderly couple, in a well-decorated New York apartment, doing something perfectly reasonable. Sure they’re feeding…something, but […]