Category: Horror Films

I’ve made a poor start to the challenge due to being ill this week. I started with Le Orme and commented with a few thoughts on Scott’s post. Today I watched a double bill on…

Beyond the Darkness (Italy, 1979) Let’s establish something here: Italian horror films can be fucking weird. Whether it’s the dream logic of an Argento giallo, the outright surrealism of Fulci’s The Beyond or the dizzy…

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….

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…

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,…