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Midsommar by Jonny Numb
A Midsommar Night’s Mistake Full of Promise? There’s so much pain in that poster, which cuts off half of Florence Pugh’s face to depict an expression of irreconcilable despair. It’s a potent image – one full of promise for horror fans. It also carries the implication of a dramatically raw film that will weigh heavily…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Surreal Horror
Surreal, Weird, Abstract… Horror doesn’t have to be a straight and narrow story about monsters and suspense. Keeping things surreal can bring a new dimension to horror storytelling that expands the genre. The Last Knock takes a closer look at some of the methods behind the movie madness. We’ll look at filmmakers, such as David…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Hodgepodge Horror XIII
Lucky Thirteen It’s Hodgepodge Horror XIII – from The Last Knock‘s longest running series! As always, there’s no theme and no structure – much like the lives of your co-hosts, Billy Crash and Jonny Numb. Both reviewers choose several films to discuss, and neither knows the other pod jockey’s (is that a word?) films. This may…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Alien
Alien: 40th Anniversary On June 22, 1979, Ridley Scott’s Alien was unleashed upon a global audience. What should have been a B-movie venture, proved to be a worthy, quality driven film for both horror and science fiction fans alike. The film’s success solidified Scott’s position as a solid director of genre films, while launching the careers of…
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The Ranger by Jonny Numb
The Ranger: Authority and Anarchy Jenn Wexler’s feature directorial debut, The Ranger, is less interesting in its modest shake-up of bloody genre tropes than in its shakedown of the ideological contradictions of authority and anarchy. The ostensible “heroes” of the piece are teenage punks, full of anti-establishment vitriol wrapped up in a guise of…
