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Crash Reports: My 100th Japanese Horror Film
An odd milestone, if you can call it that – but a definite milestone for a horror geek like me. I indulged in my 100th Japanese horror movie: EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS (2007). Shion Sono’s film dealt with the subject matter of many a Japanese horror, most Asian horror for that matter, a pissed off ghost…
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Crash Analysis: THE FIELDS (2011)
So much atmosphere, so little substance A boy tries to survive a hippy freak out – of sorts School teacher Harrison Smith told the true version of this story to his class and they said it should be a movie. So he wrote the script and sold it to Expressway Productions and Breaking Glass Pictures…
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Crash Analysis: ZOMBIES ANONYMOUS (2006)
Hit and miss A zombie woman tries to find her place in the world of the living. When zombies rise, the living and the undead must tread an uneasy line of cohabitation. There’s an anti-zombie gang out to “kill ‘em all”, a zombie support group for those trying to cope with being undead and a…
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Crash Analysis: LOVELY MOLLY (2011)
Nothing truly compelling An abused woman learns that you can’t go home again – ever. Writer/Director Eduardo Sanchez is certainly all over the map when it comes to his projects. He had reached into the nightmares of my childhood with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and had me enthralled with his suspense laden and under-rated…
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Crash Analysis: POSSESSION (France/West Germany, 1981)
A wide-eyed, jaw-dropping, migraine of a trip Husband and wife’s relationship collapses – as does everything else. Writing about POSSESSION is akin to trying to deconstruct David Lynch’s mind trip ERASERHEAD (1977) or Takashi Miike’s bizarro VISITOR Q (Japan, 2001). And although director Andrzej Zalawski’s film is based upon the trials and tribulations of his…
