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Shocktober 2024: I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
Beautifully shot, fuzzy, moody, horror-adjacent psychological drama with atmosphere to spare. The film is written as a trans allegory about two teen loners who become friends and bond over a Buffy-style TV show, but on the surface it’s also a pitch-perfect period piece about growing up in the late 90s, with some sprinkles of Twin Peaks and the Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: mardrömslika In the Mouth of Madness är en av Carpenters bästa
John Trent (Sam Neill) är en försäkringsutredare som är proffs på att nosa fram bedrägerier. Han anlitas av ett bokförlag för att leta reda på Sutter Cane, världens mest populära skräckförfattare (“You can forget about Stephen King, he outsells them all”) som försvunnit spårlöst och tagit med sig manuset till sin nya förmodade bestseller – Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: The Dead One (Barry Mahon, 1961)
This turned out to be a much needed palate cleanser after yesterday’s gore fest: a low-budget zombie movie starring a bunch of nobodies (with respect), featuring only mild scares and no blood to speak of. Newly married John returns with his bride to his family estate, a former slave plantation in the middle of the Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Bela Lugosi och muterade fladdermöss i Poverty Row-pärlan The Devil Bat
(Jean Yarbrough, 1940) “All Heathville loved David Carruthers, their kindly village doctor. No one suspected that in his home laboratory on a hillside overlooking the magnificent estate of Martin Heath, the doctor found time to conduct certain private experiments – weird, terrifying experiments.” Så inleds The Devil Bat, den första av nära 200 filmer från Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Terrifier 2 (Damien Leone, 2022)
One of my favorite characters in the Scharpling & Wurster comedic universe is filmmaker Trent L. Strauss, a sleazy horror director (‘extreme cinema’, he insists) responsible for such reprehensible trash as Face Peelers 1-6, Entrails 2: The Gouging, The Hacksawist, You’re Soaking in Her, Pukeadelphia and The Tool Belt Killer. Strauss is all about shock value, doesn’t care about story or characters Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Inseminoid är en svajig men härlig brittisk Alien-ripoff
En rymdexpedition i vita jumpsuits undersöker en planet och hittar tecken på utomjordisk intelligens i långa gruvgångar. Men i grottan finns också mystiska kristaller, och en otäck best. Monstret lemlästar några av forskarna, och kidnappar en av de kvinnliga crewmedlemmarna och inseminerar henne med slemmiga gula ägg, vilket gör henne galen och mordisk. Inseminoid är Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Nightmare Beach (Umberto Lenzi, Harry Kirkpatrick, 1989)
What if a demented killer is sent to the chair for his crimes but vows to return from the dead to wreak havoc on the world — and that world happens to be a beach community in Florida during spring break? That’s the #nutshelled premise of Nightmare Beach, a fun and dumb slasher in which a mysterious biker Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Claude Rains blinda raseri i The Invisible Man
Första filmatiseringen av H.G. Wells roman, där Claude Rains – eller snarare Claude Rains mäktiga RÖST eftersom han är antingen osynlig eller har fejset täckt av bandage – gjorde sin första stora filmroll. Han spelar vetenskapsmannen Jack Griffin, som efter experiment med den sägenomspunna drogen monocain uppfunnit ett serum som gör honom osynlig. Tyvärr har Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Dreamlike, Japanese psycho-horror-drama mostly set in a mental institution, where terror and chaos are never far away. An elderly man — possibly a former staff member? — tries to save a female patient who is plagued by psychoses. But how will he rescue her, and why? And is she even real? Is he? The Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1979)
Another piece of sleaze from Ray Dennis Steckler? Do go on! Readers might remember how Shocktober 2023 all of a sudden became very Steckler-centric for me. And here he is already, at entry number three. This grimy, virtually dialogue-free slasher-thriller is surely one of his lesser films — the fact that he used an alias says Läs mer
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