JANE ** USA 2022 Dir: Sabrina Jaglom. 83 mins The thriller film today has changed and so it should evolve. You have horror thrillers, action thrillers, erotic thrillers, crime thrillers, tech thrillers, spy thrillers and the all-encompassing psychological thriller. I was thrilled to a point with Sabrina Jaglom’s Jane (2022). I am quite removed from the story as I lack the mind and other things of a teenage college-seeking girl you can be. This film had a certain charm and action to it that may appeal to the viewer. Tackling the present topics of bullying, identity theft, and major college…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
HOUSE OF WHIPCORD **** UK 1974 Dir: Pete Walker. 102 mins The picture begins with an onscreen menacing warning over a thunderstorm. “This film is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today’s lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment”. While one can take the opening title with tongue firmly clamped in cheek there are those today that takes its meaning to heart. However, Pete Walker’s House Of Whipcord (1974) is simply a film made in those sleazy heady says of the ‘Video Nasties’. Pete Walker who wrote the original story, directed and…
FROST ** USA 2022 Dir: Brandon Slagle. 82 mins It is odd or providential that I view this film while it was minus 20 with the wind chill and snowing outside. Winter has arrived in my region of Canada at least for a while. I wish that Frost (2022) warmed my heart only to find it so ludicrous that it should be burned for warmth if it was on old nitrate film stock. Frost (2022) sells itself as a thriller/adventure film which it is neither. The picture is one long treatise on the horrors of parental reunion and solitary childbirth…
OUT OF THIS WORLD **** France 2020 Dir: Marc Fouchard. 96 mins You do hear of films that stay with you after. The images, the dialogue or for some the gore or a sequence of action. This film is so subtle in terms of the composition, the music and the actors that I can say this one does stay well after. Out Of This World (2020) or Hors du monde as it is known in France is a brilliant blend of character, and image, into a story that has been done before. The Loner who kills because of childhood trauma.…
THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN *** USA 1960 Dir: Edger G. Ulmer. 58 mins Being “Transparent’ works initially well for H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man in both book and film. Not so good for the unnamed black man in the Ralph Ellison novel Invisible Man. A host of other people have been invisible in film for evil and for fun purposes with that in mind you have Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Amazing Transparent Man (1960). Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) is busted out of jail in ‘Humphrey Bogart/ James Cagney style to become The Amazing Transparent Man. Joey Faust’s last name involves…