Six home releases from September 2023 first published by Little White Lies as entry 180 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: Gothic, Valley Girl, The Dead Mother, Targets, Psycho III, Don’t Look Away Gothic (1986) In 1816, England’s most famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands), his lover Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson) and her stepsister Claire…
Ghostwatch first published by Little White Lies, as entry 163 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Viewed in its original setting and context, Lesley Manning’s Ghostwatch was an extraordinary, ground-breaking experiment. Aired by the BBC from 9.25pm on the 31st October, 1992, it professed to be a live paranormal investigation of “the most haunted house in…
The Found Footage Phenomenon had its world première at FrightFest 2021 “The following is based on real events,” reads the glitchy, juddery text that opens The Found Footage Phenomenon, as though we were watching a VHS of one of the very films this documentary celebrates. That, of course, is a crucial point established early here:…
The Awakening first published by Little White Lies “This is a time for ghosts,” states the text that opens Nick Murphy’s The Awakening. The time is 1921, shortly after war and influenza had killed many millions, and left survivors haunted. Yet the text is a citation (complete with authenticating bibliographical reference) from the book Seeing Through Ghosts…