Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019) at Fantasia 2019 Apart from directing one of the best entries in the anthology film The Theatre Bizarre (2011), David Gregory has carved a niche for himself making countless documentaries of varying length on films, filmmakers and film production – the kinds…
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark first published by Little White Lies, as the 71st instalment of my Cinema Psychotronicum column James Signorelli’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a film full of dualities and ironies, where things tend to come in pairs. First there is the titular heroine Elvira, appearing, according to the closing credits,…
Birdemic: Shock and Terror first published by EyeforFilm With its location shoots in California’s Mission Bay, its ‘cameo’ (in archival footage seen on a television screen) from Tippi Hedren herself and its winged death from above, James Nguyen’s auteurist atrocity Birdemic: Shock And Terror is an open tribute to The Birds (1963). It is also strictly for…