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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: 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…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Piercing
Piercing Pesce Style When it comes to writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, there’s a reason it hasn’t made the rounds amongst major horror fans… After all, Pesce is the man behind the disturbing and surreal Eyes of My Mother that left many audience more than disconcerted. In his Sophomore effort, Pesce accomplishes something that Ana Lily…
