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The Danish Girl (Hooper, 2015)

The Danish Girl (Hooper, 2015)

Having enjoyed mainstream success with such marvels asThe King’s Speech (2010) and Les Misérables (2012), Tom Hooper’s latest cinematic venture is an irresistibly charming fabrication of the lives led by painters Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) – a pioneering figure in the LGBTQ+ community for being one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery – and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander).…

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The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011)

The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011)

A brilliantly twisted film that delves deeply into unorthodoxy, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In remains to be one of his darkest, most spectacular cinematic ventures yet. When prolific plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), plagued by a tragic past, creates a synthetic type of resilient skin, the relationship he shares with Vera (Elena Anaya), his human guinea pig, grows ever…

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23 Years Later: Character Changes in Psycho II (Franklin, 1983)

23 Years Later: Character Changes in Psycho II (Franklin, 1983)

When it comes to the characters in Psycho II (Franklin, 1983), in particular Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and Lila Crane (Vera Miles) who we were first introduced to in the films predecessor, the temporal is an important element to consider. As posed in the title of this article, a 23 year gap presented itself since audiences were first introduced to Bates and Crane in Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)…

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Rape and Revenge: The Feminist Movement from Craven (1972) to Zarchi (1978)

Exploitation cinema was as popular as it was controversial during the 1970s, in particular the Rape and Revenge subgenre. Depicting sexual violence against women, many thought that such films were made to be nothing more than derogative which resulted in a huge censorship battle. However, the former derogative branding has increasingly been replaced with feminist significance as time has…

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Unfriended (Gabriadze, 2014)

Skype, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Gmail, iMessage – for a generation that has had technological dependence drilled into their skulls, Unfriended acts as THE horror movie. The Blair Witch Project of the digital age, the film focuses on five friends as their stalked by an online presence using the social media accounts of their deceased friend. With such satirical TV shows as Black Mirror (2011 -)…

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Terror Train (Spottiswoode, 1980)

Casually deciding to throw a fancy dress New Year’s Eve party aboard a moving train, Terror Train follows a group of young medical students as they’re hunted down one-by-one in a vicious cat and mouse game. Three years previously, they played a practical joke that went terribly wrong and now, in true slasher fashion, psychotic justice must be served. To begin, what makes this film so…

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Reanimating Narrative, Character and Gender: Night of the Living Dead (Savini, 1990)

George A Romero’s midnight movie Night of the Living Dead (1968) is as popular today as it was upon release. Acting as a social and political commentary, presenting an African American man as a heroic figure was groundbreaking for its time, especially being released in the year that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. With this in mind, it could be thought that Tom Savini’s 1990 remake…

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Halloween II (Rosenthal, 1981)

Halloween (1978) is the perfect horror film in which I’ll never forget watching it for the first time: home alone, the open ending had me quivering and too scared to leave the lounge. With this, I was satisfied and never saw a reason to ruin my enjoyment by watching the sequel. However, this always left me with a nagging curiosity and five years after my pact, willpower bowed down to temptation.…

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The House of the Devil (West, 2009)

With a handful of horror films from the noughties paying homage to those of the seventies and eighties, The House of the Devil is by far superior. With overly damaged film and pompous brutality, the notable Death Proof (2007) and Planet Terror (2007) can feel too eccentric to handle whereas The House of the Devil has a much more laid back and somewhat subtle approach, ultimately resulting in a…

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (Hancock, 1971)

With a roaringly camp title, minimal publicity and no official UK release, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Hancock, 1971) is an impeccable addition to seventies horror cinema which deserves far more than the underrated status it has. Starring Zohra Lampert as the title character, an exceptional actress based on her performance here, the film perfectly portrays the issue of Jessica’s declining…

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From Dusk Till Dawn (Rodriguez, 1996)

Bringing the nineties to the hybrid horror/western subgenre which Kathryn Bieglow made popular in 1987 with Near Dark, From Dusk Till Dawn is the cult classic that follows the story of Seth and Richie Gecko, two tearaway brothers with a prolific reputation amongst the law. At the beginning of the film we’re introduced to Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, as played by Michael Parks, who walks into a…

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Conquering Suppression with the Gay Liberation: Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972)

Infamous for its long battle with the censors, Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972) is the notorious midnight movie. Complete with drug fuelled goings on and language that would burn convents to the ground, this cult starlet was the film that would build the primary foundations for the successful careers of director John Waters and the definitive drag sovereign, Divine. Defined by the tabloids as the…

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The Legacy of My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka, 1981)

Better known for its 2009 remake that arguably inspired an avalanche of commercial 3D horror films that require a mere grain of intellect to understand, My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka, 1981) is uncommonly spoken of yet branded as a cult classic. Quentin Tarantino has even revealed that the film is his favourite slasher (Entertainment Weekly, 2006). Released during a time in which horror audiences…

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Understanding the Ending of Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)

I was first introduced to Black Christmas when watching Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments on YouTube. The film was voted in at 87 and during the segment, Deron Miller of C.K.Y fame discussed how the main antagonist is never revealed, causing the audience to finish the film feeling dissatisfied. However, is this really the case? The plot of the film is very simple; a psychopath is hiding in the…

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