Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Diqiu zuihou de yewan) first published by VODzilla.co “Any time I saw her, I knew I was in a dream again. And once you know you’re dreaming, it’s an out-of-body experience. Sometimes you float upwards. In my dreams I would always wonder if my body were made of hydrogen. If…
Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) first published by Little White Lies In the middle of Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans la cœur), Anne (Vanessa Paradis) wanders into a gay bar, and watches a cabaret performance in which a she-wolf, in embracing her human beloved, also tears her apart. This…
Porno (2019) at Fantasia and FrightFest 2019 Keola Racela’s feature debut opens with a sequence not entirely unexpected in a film called Porno: a couple fucking in a bedroom. Then the camera draws back, and we realise that much as we are watching this unfold within the frame of the cinema screen, others are watching…
Demons first published by VODzilla.co Demons (Dèmoni) is set in Berlin, in the Deep Eighties (you can tell by Claudio Simonetti’s synth pop). Music student Cheryl (Natasha Hovey) is on the S-Bahn, clutching her score for Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, when the lights dip in a tunnel, and she glimpses the reflection of a man with…
The Lords of Salem seems to have won itself a lot of haters in the UK, as well as the odd fan (myself included), but sometimes it can be refreshing to let a writer/director have their own say on what makes their art tick. So here is a director’s statement from Rob Zombie that I…