Five Movie Characters Who Made The World A Little Crazier first published by Scene360 Mad scientists! Anarchic villains! Mentally AWOL soldiers! Atavistic terrorists! Insanity and power combine in cinema to create characters who are combustible, compelling, and all the more mesmerising for their madness. Operating beyond the bounds of what is acceptable, these figures embody aspects…
Splice first published by Film4 Synopsis: In this updated riff on Frankenstein, directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher), scientific hubris and tainted love combine to create an unstable and dangerous hybrid. Review: Some couplings just were not meant to be. When Splice begins, young, high-powered biochemists Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) have just…
Re-Animator first published by FilmLand Empire “I’m dead,” declares medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), lying beside his girlfriend Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton) in a state of post-coital exhaustion. When Megan questions his compliments of her physical beauty as “coming from somebody who spends most of his time with cadavers”, Dan insists, “Cadavers aren’t beautiful…