When I think about Banshee Chapter, I keep finding myself saying “almost” or “nearly” or “not quite” over and over. It is an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond. Well, almost. The original version of the script started life as a first draft of Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark, but obviously that didn’t quite […]
Read more "Banshee Chapter (2013)"I’ve never paid too much attention to the Kamen (Masked) Rider phenomenon. I was more or less aware that the show existed, but never had any interest in it until Hideaki Anno announced that after the first two films of his trilogy of “Shin” movies — Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman — he would give […]
Read more " Kamen raidâ Zetto Ô [Kamen Rider ZO] (1993)"This is one of the most fondly remembered BBC TV movies in their long and varied history. And I feel like a bit of a grinch because I just don’t share the enthusiasm that it has generated. Somewhere in in the more perfect future of 2130, after a devastating catastrophe that no one quite understands, […]
Read more "The Flipside of Dominick Hide [Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide] (1980)"(aka Transmutations) What we have here is: Clive Barker’s first feature film credit (for story and screenwriting). Only he hated the results and disavows it. One of the first films from Charles Band’s Empire Films. Only it wasn’t actually produced by Empire and Band merely distributed it. And we might also note that it is […]
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