IT **** U.S.A. 2017 Dir: Andy Muschietti 135 mins Mimicking the life cycle of its own shape-shifting antagonist, the cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel arrived 27 years after the fondly remembered (but flawed) TV mini-series incarnation. In another spot of pin-sharp timing, the movie joins an enduring wave…
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CREEPSHOW ***** USA 1982 Dir: George A Romero. 115 mins Romero and Stephen King’s loving tribute to the EC Comics of their youth resulted in the most purely entertaining horror anthology since Amicus’ heyday. Stylistically, it’s one of the greatest cinematic evocations of a comic book world : the cinematography…
FRIGHTFEST 2016: DAY ONE MY FATHER, DIE **** USA 2016 Dir: Sean Brosnan. 102 mins Sean Brosnan’s feature directorial debut, co-produced by his Dad Pierce, is a savagely violent Southern Gothic straddling the line between arthouse and grindhouse, and evidently influenced by everyone from filmmakers Walter Hill and Simon Rumley…
‘HAVEN’ SERIES 5: VOLUME 1 REVIEWED Based on Stephen King’s book ‘THE COLORADO KID’ (which on its own is a mere 184 pages long) ‘HAVEN’ has gone on to make 5 series and being that is the first part of the fifth and final series we will look back at…