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October Horror Movie Challenge Day 4 – What Have You Done to Solange?

4 October, 2013

What Have You Done to Solange? (Italy, 1972) A couple in a rowboat drift down one of more scenic stretches of the Thames, the man trying to convince the woman to have sex with him….

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 3 – Dementia 13

3 October, 2013

Dementia 13 (USA, 1963) Roger Corman famously mentored a number of writers, actors and directors who would become the cream of Hollywood, including Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard and Peter Bogdanovich. Their work for…

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 2 – The Beast Within

2 October, 2013

The Beast Within (USA, 1982) The Beast Within is an oddity. It’s not overly different in tone from other horror films of its time, but it contains some rather nasty scenes and has a grimy,…

October Horror Movie Challenge Day 1 – Le Orme

1 October, 2013

Le Orme/Footprints/Footprints on the Moon (Italy, 1975) I may have started out the month’s viewings with a misstep. The problem isn’t that Footprints is a bad film — quite the opposite — but that I’m not…

David Cronenberg’s Films

1 October, 2013

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This week’s episode is a discussion of the films of David Cronenberg and how his unique style of reality-bending body horror has influenced us and our games.

If this doesn't happen at least once, you're not playing one of Scott's games

If this doesn’t happen to you at least once, you’re not playing one of Scott’s games

While we go through most of Cronenberg’s back catalogue, we focus on three of his films: Shivers (AKA They Came from Within), Scanners and Videodrome. Videodrome in particular has seeped into all our brains, changing them forever.

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So please join us in a celebration of the wild imagination and startling imagery of one of the most distinctive film-makers of our age. Your new flesh awaits!