Funny bones: Ten Comedy Horrors first published by BFI, 3rd October 2024, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974) Includes capsules of: The Old Dark House, Blood Feast, Spider Baby, House (1977), An American Werewolf in London, Evil Dead II, Braindead, Gozu, Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, Werewolves Within Focusing on…
Tag: Sho Aikawa
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Dead or Alive: Final first published by Film4, April 2007 In one of the most eye-goggling climactic sequences in living memory, Takashi Miike‘s Dead or Alive (1999) ends with its two implacably opposed characters – Sho Aikawa’s cop and Riki Takeuchi’s gangster – destroying not only each other but also the entire planet in an…

