[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002BMZZM8][/pullquote] Oskar is unhappy. An outsider at school, he's a pallid, shy, awkward child; a child who tucks his jumper into his trousers and dreams of vengeance towards his bullies. He wanders the snow covered estate where he lives, always alone. Until one … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0030IMZ3O][/pullquote] In 2007, director Oren Peli, on a shoe-string budget of $15,000, created a found footage horror film called Paranormal Activity. He, like so many film-makers had struggled to find someone to take a chance on him and distribute the film. … [Read more...]
Review: Wolf Creek (2005)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000UYBOZQ][/pullquote] A common question among film fans is ˜what makes a film, a horror rather than a thriller.' The common response includes references to the occult or supernatural, or something about an unstoppable villain with super-human strength. While this … [Read more...]
Review: Saw (2004)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005C4446A][/pullquote] 2004 saw the launch of one of the most successful horror franchises of all time. Saw introduced the film-going audience to the Jigsaw killer and the mainstream pushing of the future ˜torture porn' genre. This along with Eli Roth's Hostel … [Read more...]
Review: Friday the 13th (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001SAO340][/pullquote] Horror films have a knack or being dismissed as somehow not as good quality as other film genre types. For instance, when was the last horror film that won an Oscar? That is not to say that there are no great horror films. Far from it, they are … [Read more...]
Review: Red State (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005VEFHQ2][/pullquote] A film encapsulating all that's wrong with religion, Red State throws together sex, sinners, guns and gore with dark black comedy. Kevin Smith, the silent half of Jay and Silent Bob and the foul-mouthed director and prolific podcaster uses his … [Read more...]
Review: Insidious (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00GNXOO2I][/pullquote] The poster might as well say ˜Roll up, roll up and come see the miraculous rebirth of Hammer Horror.' Insidious, starring Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson is about as old school a horror as it's possible to get without being completely overblown. … [Read more...]
Review: Friday the 13th (1980)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B002AHHOFA][/pullquote] The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a host of ˜slasher' films released into the market. Based on the popularity of the original Halloween, these films helped to solidify the genre in a similar way that Saw and Hostel have done for ˜torture porn' … [Read more...]
Review: Child’s Play (1988)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00DTPRYY8][/pullquote] Tom Holland is a writer and director whose back-catalogue is filled with horror films. He wrote the original and helped with the remake of Fright Night. He penned the sequel to Psycho and in Child's Play he has his greatest cinematic triumph. … [Read more...]
Review: Apollo 18 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005PNYJJ0][/pullquote] The found footage genre of film-making was first created in 1980 with shock horror Cannibal Holocaust. However it wasn't until The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999 that it became a regular story-telling device. Usually used as a means … [Read more...]