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Become Your Dream
My beautiful, intelligent, and talented wife, Ally Bishop, bought this photograph for me after her annual Christmas trip to New York City. When she gave it to me, she cried. She knew that I had one hell of a creatively busy 2014 with far too many demanding projects: two short films (TIGERS IN THE SOUP…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: Randy Brzoska’s “Kid in Play” (Part III)
Children as Antagonists So far we’ve discussed children primarily as victims, protagonists, or glorified Macguffins. And we’ve discovered that due to the inherent traits of Innocence and Agency they fulfill those roles nicely. “But,” I can hear you saying, “that creepy kid from next door is looking at me again. Aren’t children also scary?…
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Crash Reports: My 1,600th Horror
Okay, this one actually happened about two weeks ago when I watched Stuart Gordon’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1991), starring Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, and Oliver Reed. I appreciated the story, Henriksen’s imploding character in one hardcore performance, Combs’s understated yet poignant delivery of someone following orders, and the truths surrounding witch burning in…
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Crash Analysis: THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (Italy/USA, 1964) – My 1,500th Horror Movie
Isolation and hopelessness leads to suicide by vampire Waiting to die Writer Richard Matheson thought the Grand Guignol, Vincent Price was miscast for the role of Dr. Robert Morgan, but the actor captured the essence of a man with truly nothing to live for, which mirrored his role as THE FALL OF THE HOUSE…
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Crash Analysis: RABIES (Israel, 2010)
Israel’s first horror – and not their last Different people all victims of circumstance and bad timing Apparently, Israel’s first horror, RABIES (“Kalevet” is the Hebrew title) was such a success in its native land that more are on the way. As for this venture, the writer/director team of Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado certainly…
