Tag: Brad Dourif

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Graveyard Shift 30th Anniversary

    It’s Always Dark During the Graveyard Shift  The Last Knock celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of director Ralph S. Singleton’s Graveyard Shift. Based on Stephen King’s tale, the narrative explores a stranger’s new job in a Hellhole of an old cotton mill in Maine. But it’s not so much what goes on inside the nightmare factory, but…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Playing God

    Playing God: The Horror Movie  Ahh, playing God in horror cinema… A good time for the audience, a bad time for the characters.  Usually some self-indulgent male scientist or doctor, better yet, a pseudo-scientist or pseudo-doctor, has some bright medical idea. And that crazy notion must be explored for it will bring glory and accolades…

  • Tobe Hooper and the Aesthetics of Madness (Part I) by Jonny Numb

    Madness and Cinema Tobe Hooper’s career echoed that of many a seminal genre director from a particular, boundary-busting era. His struggles, his achievements, and his character iconography contributed to the horror canon. As with other directors who have passed on, his impact on cinema as a whole will continue to be felt. George A. Romero…