When a big film arrives, it’s impossible to miss it: billboards, newspaper adverts, television spots, promotional tie-ins, marketing campaigns which guarantee a huge opening weekend while swallowing as
With the publication of Carrie in the spring of 1974, debut novelist Stephen King made horror commonplace, suburban, modern and real. Carrie White was unusual, both protagonist and
The film industry is constantly in change – the introduction of sound, then colour, cinemascope, 3D, digital, each of which has seen new innovators and pioneers. As with
While the fantastical has become the dominant form of genre entertainment for children, for adults science fiction and horror have remained the prevailing forms. Despite the superficial similarities
The dark world. With a subtitle like that, a scholarly dissertation may begin by looking at the different connotations of the word dark, and how the meanings may
The 2012 horror anthology film V/H/S had great potential. It could have been an homage to the early days of the videocassette, when many horror films which had
In its never ceasing demand for audiences for its latest productions, it is inevitable that Hollywood will be examined by those to whom those wares are marketed, and
Any director/ writer/ editor/ cameraman working in low budget Spanish language grindhouse cinema is immediately going to draw comparisons with Robert Rodriguez, and it is unlikely the Chilean
Hollywood studios have long been obsessed with showing filmgoers the vast and brutal expanses of the space beyond our planet’s atmosphere. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Alien
