Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstruo, Muere) first published by Through The Trees In the opening sequence of Murder Me Monster, amid bleating sheep with bloodied faces, a woman staggers around at dusk before she sinks to her knees, a vicious wound gaping open across her throat – even as we hear a low growl approaching….
To the accompaniment of fey flutework from composer Katisse Buckingham, the opening credits of writer/director Jud Cremata’s feature debut Let’s Scare Julie offer elegant animated design in the style of Saul Bass. Here the name of each cast member appears, only to be erased by a red bar, until it becomes clear that these bars…
Kuso first published by VODzilla.co “Holy shit!” “I fucking hate this movie.” “What? Nigga, eat ass! This is art!” “This is garbage! Art is garbage!” A woman (Bethany Schmitt) – referred to in the credits as ‘the Buttress’ – smokes up on her sofa as she watches TV, and is emphatically unimpressed by what she sees…
First published by Sight & Sound, December 2016 Review: “Solitude”, declares Mariano (Noé Hernández), “drags you, forces you to come face to face with your darkest fantasies – and when nothing happens, you stop being afraid of your most grotesque thoughts.” Normally this bearded 47-year-old hermit enjoys complete solitude. In a dilapidated building, Mariano’s only…
When we go to the cinema, we are returning to the womb. There we sit waiting in the cavernous dark, awash in sensory stimuli and mythic archetypes – and even if there are others, either located alongside us or flickering on the screen, nonetheless we remain essentially alone, relating to them only through the internal…