Next Level Horror, Exploitation and Cult Discussion
By Eli LaChance Toho took Hollywood to school on long-running franchise movies with a fraction of the budget. After a long year of Blockbuster duds, Godzilla Minus One proves the problem isn't inherent to franchises or genre, it's Hollywood's cookie-cutter approach. https://youtu.be/d79dUsPZKL0 Credit: Toho With Godzilla Minus One, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki delivers a deeply emotional... Continue Reading →
By Eli LaChance If I might borrow from the bard to tempt you, “hell is empty and all the devils are here,” and by here, I mean writer David Pepose(SAVAGE AVENGERS, SPENCER & LOCKE) and artist Alex Cormac’s(BREATH OF SHADOWS, SEA OF SORROWS) new comic The Devil that Wears my Face, due October 4th from... Continue Reading →
By Eli LaChance Maniac Harry isn't the scariest thing in NYC It’s impossible to discuss Elliott Kalan & Andrea Mutti’s new Aftershock horror comic, Maniac of New York, without mentioning the film that inspired it. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan begins with panning shots of New York City in decay. The goal... Continue Reading →
THE HUMAN SUBPLOT IS THE PLOT “Monsters are tragic beings,” Godzilla co-creator Ishiro Honda was onto something when he observed, “They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy.” Humanity is at the heart of the best monster stories. It’s not by accident that... Continue Reading →
By Sarah Winkler Classicism is defined as a bias toward, or against persons of given social classes. In the films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), and Frankenstein (1931), there are underlying, or otherwise distinctly presented elements of classism that surround the characters depicted in each film. These are currents of social bias which become highlighted... Continue Reading →
It isn’t that I believe Toho and co. were making a Godzilla film about the coronavirus in 2016, that would require a tin-foil hat and perhaps an antipsychotic prescription.
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