21st Feb 2010
Say what you like about Christian Bale, but you can’t argue with his commitment to a role. I haven’t seen shoulder muscles like that since Bruce Lee swinging his nunchaku about in Enter the Dragon. In fact, Christian Bale is a living lesson in “body” horror.
Body Horror, Biological Horror, or Organic Horror is horror fiction in which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. [link]
For American Psycho (2000) Bale spent many months working out on his own, then three hours a day with a trainer during pre-production, to achieve a physique suitable for the narcissistic 1980s Bateman.
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18th Jan 2010
With the upcoming A Nightmare On Elm Street remake to hit cinemas this spring (Friday 7 May 2010) I thought it would be interesting to ponder whether or not the “new” Freddy Krueger will be a success.
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14th Jan 2010
I’m writing this for a few reasons. One, I fucking love rock’n’roll. Second, I love horror films. Finally, a certain web site’s top 10 was, well, in satanic terms - fucking sacrilegious! Hell yeah I said it. Whose mother wrote that shit? Whoever it was didn’t do enough drugs or catch enough VD. Not very rock’n’roll. Come on - where’s the sex, where’s the drugs, where’s the frantic NO from your mom decreeing Thou Shall Not See This Movie?!
They say the Devil has the best fucking tunes (well, I have fucked to most of them, at one time or another). So right here is my humble list of rock’n’roll movies you must see. And if you get the chance, fucking crank it up!
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13th Nov 2009
OK, you’re probably wondering why there’s a pic of The Blair Witch Project slapped on a post discussing the poor box office performance of Saw VI … Here goes:
Saw VI has been beaten to the no 1 slot in the US by low budget shaky-cam Blair Witch “rip-off” Paranormal Activity (I use the term “rip-off” loosely as horror purists swear that The Blair Witch stole the documentary film idea from the awful Cannibal Holocaust).
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