Home Owners (Para entrar a vivir) screens at HÕFF – Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Home Owners (Para entrar a vivir) begins with a montage of Ana (Bárbara Goenaga) and Maxi (Gorka Otxoa) unpacking items from boxes in their new home – literal ‘moving’ images that serve as a programmatic statement of influence and…
The Game first published by Little White Lies, as entry 108 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column Coming hard upon the huge success of Se7en (1995), although in fact conceived before it, David Fincher’s The Game presents itself as a mystery to be solved. We know this because the opening credits sequence shows a grid of…
Onibaba first published by EyeforFilm A bloody, protracted and pointless quarrel between rival emperors has torn feudal Japan apart. While they await the return of their conscripted husbands, a woman (writer/director Kaneto Shindo’s wife, Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) have taken desperate measures to survive, murdering any soldiers who wander into their grass field,…