READER RECOMMENDATION: “TOBY DAMMIT” (1968)
Reader recommendation from Steven Ryder Note: ‘Toby Dammit’ is a segment filmed as part of Spirits of the Dead, an anthology based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. The other entries were “William...
View ArticleCAPSULE: THE EDITOR (2014)
DIRECTED BY: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy FEATURING: Paz de la Huerta, Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks PLOT: A revered but mentally unstable film editor, who once lost four of his fingers on the cutting...
View ArticleCAPSULE: THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972)
DIRECTED BY: Lee Frost FEATURING: Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall PLOT: An elderly, racist, but brilliant doctor on the brink of death figures out a way to keep himself alive through the...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: THE FALLING (2014)
DIRECTED BY: Carol Morley FEATURING: Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Florence Pugh PLOT: The students at an all-girls school experience a collective mass hysteria after one of their group unexpectedly...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: NIGHT ON THE GALACTIC RAILROAD (1985)
Ginga-tetsudo no Yoru; AKA Night on the Galactic Express DIRECTED BY: Gisaburo Sugii FEATURING: Voices of Mayumi Tanaka, Chika Sakumoto PLOT: In a fictional town in a fictional universe during the...
View ArticleCAPSULE: CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972)
DIRECTED BY: Bob Clark FEATURING: Alan Ormsby, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin PLOT: An amateur acting troupe, led by their eccentric and egotistical director, head out to an island to conduct experiments...
View Article