[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004EMS0XO][/pullquote] Paranormal Activity was a sensation upon release in 2009. Off a shoe-string budget of $15,000, Oren Peli was able to create a terrifying ˜found footage' film that drew on the mega-success of The Blair Witch Project and move the horror zeitgeist … [Read more...]
Review: Real Steel (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006DVUULE][/pullquote] Sylvester Stallone has a lot to answer for. His most famous creation, Rocky, has become the archetypal narrative for the majority of sports films ever since its release in 1976. Now whenever Hollywood wants a vehicle for one of their … [Read more...]
Review: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002KAIW4E][/pullquote] Zombies are as synonymous with horror films as any creatures you can think of, but this wasn't always the case. Before 1968, zombies were often the product of voodoo magic, in fact the modern term Zombie derives from the Haitian Creole term … [Read more...]
Review: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005, France)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000C05YGI][/pullquote] The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a rarity, in that it's a ˜world cinema' remake of an American movie. The movie in question is Fingers, a 1978 thriller starring Harvey Keitel as Jimmy ˜Fingers' Angelelli, a young man torn between a career as a … [Read more...]
Review: The Orphanage (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0019GJ3ZM][/pullquote] The Orphanage (El Orfanato to give it its Spanish title) is a horror film presented by horror aficionado and all-round fantasy legend Guillermo Del Toro. As part of his plan to seemingly force through a horror film revolution in … [Read more...]
Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007C17YLI][/pullquote] Secretly, most loath being stuck in the dark, no matter how old or young. Guillermo del Toro takes the audience back to childhood with memories of monsters under the bed in his version of Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. Children of the past and … [Read more...]
Review: Alien (1979)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006MGB31Q][/pullquote] One must wonder what crossed the mind of Nobel Winning Edward Teller when he developed his thermo-nuclear bomb, after all it's not like the atomic bomb failed in its simplistic remit of blowing shit up. Clearly though; there comes a time when … [Read more...]
Review: Scream 3 (2000)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004UGALGI][/pullquote] It could be said that when you look behind the production of Scream 3, it was doomed from the start. This has, unfortunately been proved true. For one thing, Kevin Williamson, the person who had created and given life to these characters, was … [Read more...]
Review: Scream (1996)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004UGALGI][/pullquote] The horror genre has had many moods and changes in style over the years from monster movies, to psychological thrillers all the way to the latest torture-porn. For fans of horror, if you watch closely enough, there appears a set of common … [Read more...]
Review: Don’t Look Now (1973)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004EMS034][/pullquote] The four movies that Nicolas Roeg directed (or co-directed) in the 1970s are the films on which his reputation is built; Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth. While all very different, they are all generally … [Read more...]