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Getting Aroused by Torture Porn
Back in “Horror Porn and Prick Flicks,” I tried to deal with the fact that some genre fans repudiate the phrase “Torture Porn.” Chris Stangl of The Exploding Kinetoscope objects that the term is not a “meaningful genre designation,” and Alan Jones calls it a “lazy phrase.”
Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. The real [...]
Storm Warning: Q&A with director Jamie Blanks
One of the strongest films at this year’s Screamfest horror film festival was STORM WARNING, written by Everett DeRoche and directed by Jamie Blanks. It’s about a married couple out boating off the coast of Australia who get caught in a storm and end up on an isolated island with some rather unfriendly inhabitants. Mixing [...]
Borderland (2007) – After Dark Film Review
One of the “8 Films to Die For” in the 2007 edition of the After Dark Horrorfest, BORDERLAND is a tense, bloody thriller that raises questions about how we define the horror genre. In essence, this is a story about three gringos who go south of the border for a weekend in Mexico, only to run [...]
Wolf Creek (2005) – Horror Film Review
This is the Australian film that generated a bit of a buzz when the Weinstein Brothers bought the distribution rights at Sundance Film Festival. Thanks to the Weinstein’s previous track record for picking up independent films and turning them into sleeper hits), audiences and critics were expecting a low-budget horror gem; what arrived is much [...]
