http://www.horrorphile.net/ “Night brings terror. Strange, alien forms move restlessly across the face of the earth. Fear, horror and death follow in their wake. The sky is dark; the moon has not yet risen; the stars seem too frightened to shine ..." --- Drake Douglas (introduction to Horrors) en Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:00 GMT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:00 GMT info@horrorphile.net info@horrorphile.net http://www.horrorphile.net/userimages/user1857_1155819892.jpg http://www.horrorphile.net/ http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2/ 'Tis peculiar the way one's appreciation for art changes as you get older. Some things you liked immensely when you were younger you can no longer tolerate, while other things... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre/ Yes, it's about time I reviewed this seminal piece of modern horror. Along with Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) cemented... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:12:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/poster-gallery-12/ Bit of a mixed bag this post. Yes, I'll admit there are some ripe ones, including a poster to my very first Pleasure of Nightmares movie review which I thought... http://www.horrorphile.net/poster-gallery-12/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/poster-gallery-12/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:03:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/13-tzameti/ Finally getting a DVD release down under in a few months, writer/director Gela Babluani's stark and brutal thriller 13 (2005). Tzameti is Georgian for "13", which is the director's nationality... http://www.horrorphile.net/13-tzameti/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/13-tzameti/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:53:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/basket-case/ There's dreadful, and then there's real bad. There's the cheap and nasty, and then there's the deep trash. Frank Henelotter's cult "classic" Basket Case (1982) is a movie unto itself... http://www.horrorphile.net/basket-case/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/basket-case/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:06:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/deadly-blessing/ Director Wes Craven - a wildly uneven filmmaker if ever there was one - had made two notorious low-budget shockers (both of them over-rated in my books, despite their cult... http://www.horrorphile.net/deadly-blessing/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/deadly-blessing/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:07:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-art-lair-vii/ I'm not sure if the above photo is an artistic installation, but it looks like one, so I've included it as my window display. I've got a thing for crocodiles... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-art-lair-vii/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-art-lair-vii/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:06:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/i-love-sarah-jane/ I didn't get to see many short films at the 55th Sydney Film Festival this year, partly because I ended up seeing a lot of screeners (DVDs for media use... http://www.horrorphile.net/i-love-sarah-jane/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/i-love-sarah-jane/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:11:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/funny-games-2007/ In a kneecap ... er, I mean nutshell: wealthy middle-class family, Ann (Naomi Watts), husband George (Tim Roth) and young son Georgie (Devon Gearhart), arrive at their Long Island holiday... http://www.horrorphile.net/funny-games-2007/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/funny-games-2007/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:30:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/a-complete-history-of-my-sexual-failures/ As I come to the end of my Sydney Film Festival coverage for 2008 I've decided to end the week on an upbeat note, albeit desperately, achingly, wincingly, wrenchingly funny... http://www.horrorphile.net/a-complete-history-of-my-sexual-failures/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/a-complete-history-of-my-sexual-failures/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:25:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/storm-warning/ Melbourne director Jamie Blanks was the Aussie boy done good when he was catapulted into the American horror limelight with his debut feature Urban Legend (1998). But unfortunately the movie... http://www.horrorphile.net/storm-warning/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/storm-warning/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:59:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/stan-winston-rip/ "People who are afraid to go to horror movies are generally afraid their whole lives. People say to me, 'Do you have nightmares?' I never have nightmares! And I go... http://www.horrorphile.net/stan-winston-rip/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/stan-winston-rip/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:26:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/stranded/ I first read the non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read during high school holidays one summer. It was a powerful and chilling read... http://www.horrorphile.net/stranded/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/stranded/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:06:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-square/ It follows more along the crooked lines of a modern noir than a horror, but it is most definitely a nightmare movie; it even features a couple of brief, but... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-square/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-square/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:55:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/a-very-british-gangster/ Investigative undercover journalist and documentary filmmaker Donal MacIntyre has made a thoroughly compelling and rather intriguing portrait/case study of notorious Manchester criminal Dominic Noonan (an ex-pat Irishman who changed his... http://www.horrorphile.net/a-very-british-gangster/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/a-very-british-gangster/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:34:00 GMT