I spent most of October worrying about my cat, and spending a lot of money at the vet, so I didn't do much else. As a result, this round-up is rather brief. (Tori is doing quite well now, by the way, but it was very scary there for a while, with an insane amount of peeing everywhere, because she had a UTI, and then a really scary seizure, which I'm still not sure the cause of. Most likely culprit was...
If you saw The Squid and the Whale (2005), you probably noticed the atmospheric soundtrack, at least remotely like some of Donovan's work in the 1960s. Thank the mysterious Dean & Britta in part for that and even more so for 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2008-2009). Here's a trailer for 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests . The whole thing...
For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples.
Those of us who spent many hours in the '70s and '80s watching satanic cultists at work and play in junk like "Race With the Devil" (1975) will experience director Ti West's fourth feature in a different way from those...
The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is lured for overnight housesitting by an elegant, forbidding couple (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov, both queerly over-intimate). Though its poster and...
The House of the Devil, the new horror film written, edited and directed by Ti West, is all about the slow build. Those seeking wall-to-wall violence will most likely be very disappointed. This is about ramping up the tension for as long as possible before unleashing the intensity. Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha, a college sophomore who just landed a room in an off-campus house. Only problem is, she's...
Donahue plays Samantha, an agreeable, cash-strapped college student (and we learn only as much about her as the plot requires). Financial salvation comes from a flyer advertising a babysitting gig, which leads to a suspicious game of phone tag with her would-be employer (pay phones! Remember them') and a ride down a dark road to a big, creepy house, where Samantha learns she’ll actually be watching...
Phobia Friday: Satanophobia - Fear of Satan. Director Ti West's love letter to creepy horror of the 70's and 80's, The House of the Devil is now enjoying a limited theatrical...
Mary Woronov may not have been up there with Edie Sedgwick, Viva, and Jane Holzer as one of Andy Warhol's "superstars," but she got a lot of mileage out of terrorizing International Velvet in his 1966 Chelsea Girls . She went on to star in such low-budget pleasures as Death Race 2000 , Rock 'n' Roll High School and the 1982 black-comedy classic Eating Raoul . And she’s just popped...
By Eric D. Snider (reprint from 5/3/2009 -- Tribeca Film Festival) The House of the Devil is a great name for a movie. It hearkens back to the days of grindhouse horror, when a film's title and its trailer told you basically everything you needed to know. Yet it's different from those movies, too, in that it prefers slow-building tension over frequent bloodletting and mayhem. You have to wait for...