The Monster Dies Twice
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About halfway though The Exorcist, Detective Kinderman visits Chris MacNeil to ask if her friend Burke Dennings (recently found dead at the foot of the stone steps outside her house) may have visited Regan’s room the night of his death. They sit at McNeil’s dining table and drink coffee. In the room, behind and between … Continue reading
Featured Monsters
The Werner Herzog Q&A at the British Film Institute last Monday was both exhilarating and revelatory. Herzog first introduced a preview screening of his new documentary about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, and was later interviewed onstage by Mark Kermode.
Film: Day of the Dead, 1985 Director: George Romero In a nutshell: Romero’s third Living Dead movie, set a few years after the zombie apocalypse. Man alive, this is one terrific zombie film. There’s great stuff here, and although the plot itself is quite straightforward, the social problems that evolve are satisfyingly complex. As is … Continue reading
Film: The Host, 2006 Director: Bong Joon-ho In a nutshell: Much hyped South Korean monster movie in which an eccentric family try to locate their child, who has been either munched or kidnapped by a mini-Godzilla.
