“If God wanted that movie to be good, He would have willed it so from the beginning.” This sort of Greater Plan attitude is the subconscious spiritual implication of a capitalist art industry. While the […]
Category: Cinema Obscura
24 HOUR PSYCHO: SPENDING A DAY AT THE BATES MOTEL
The first thing that comes up if you search for Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho on YouTube is his interpretation of the shower scene from Hitchcock’s 1960 original. In the end, it could probably never […]
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR IS IN PETER TSCHERKASSKY’S OUTER SPACE
Experimental cinema is a strange beast. Often treated as something different to more conventional styles of film, it can feel like a sub-genre that’s drowned in the academic, made impenetrable or unable to be understood […]
1987’s million dollar mystery IS A BIT MORE THAN JUST OLD TRASH
To jaded 2019 film viewers an unofficial remake of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World designed as a viral marketing campaign for a trash bag sounds more like the stuff of a throwaway Simpsons […]