Body horror and the beauty myth: six influences and intertexts for Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance first published by BFI, 21 September 2024 Includes capsules of: The Fly (1958), Seconds, The Shining, Basket Case, Yoga Hakwon, Replace In Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024), fallen Tinseltown star Elisabeth Sprinkle (Demi Moore) agrees, at age 50, to undergo…
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee first published by SciFiNow, for its world première at FrightFest, 25 Ausgust, 2024; “On the 7th of June in the year 2015 I passed away, at the age of 93,” states Christopher Lee from the outset, adding, “By then I had become quite accustomed to dying.” It is…
The Masque of the Red Death first published by Little White Lies, as entry 120 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column The Masque of the Red Death is the seventh of eight features which Roger Corman adapted in the first half of the 1960s from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Some of these adaptations were…