One may be excused for thinking The Exorcist is also in part an adaptation of The Thorn Birds.
The film was a first sortie for William Peter Blatty’s all-out attack on unbelief in the summer of 1990.
American Horror Story has evolved over the course of two seasons from a reliably lurid soap to a sophisticated work of despairing protest pop-art.
The film’s most egregious flaws are freely (and somewhat hilariously) pointed out by Joe Berlinger in his DVD commentary track.
Lisa and the Devil is easily the oddest duck in Bava’s filmography, sumptuously photographed and exceedingly surreal.
Understanding Screenwriting #98: To Rome with Love, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Newsroom, & More
The shaggy-dog element in the fourth story in To Rome with Love is its very casual surrealism.
So what did frighten me as a kid?
The concept behind Lucid Screening’s second annual April Fool’s day White Elephant Blog-a-thon seems pretty straightforward.
The film is an inventory of movie and music references as relentless and explicit as Grindhouse.
If I can’t have real bodies and artful photography, I’d rather watch The Cartoon Network.