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This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with V/H/S at the Wellington International Film Festival. The showing also included a Q&A with one of the key contributing directors, David Bruckner (The Signal).
If you’ve not done your homework then all you need to know is that it’s a curious hybridisation of the staple horror anthology [...]
I miss my old VHS player. The shoebox-sized tapes, the tracking issues and degraded picture. The garbled sound and the ever-present fear that your aging machine’s tape-heads will chew your beloved tapes in to an unwatchable mess of unravelled black, glossy tape.
I no longer have a VHS player. All I am left with is a [...]
So, yeah, this was a huge interview. So I split it into two.
The first part, saw AJ talk openly about his experiences on House Of The Devil, on his friendship with director Ti West and about A Horrible Way To Die.
So, in this, the second part, we move on to discussing other projects including Rites [...]
Back in 2009, I checked out a film on a recommendation. I was told, “Get this watched NOW. It’s right up your street”. That film, as it turned out, was Ti West’s The House Of The Devil, a fantastic, slow-burning homage to 80′s genre pics.
One of the most memorable scenes involves a young woman having [...]
Serial killers. I’m often struck by the fame that these people enjoy. Receiving bags of fan mail and marriage proposals. Proof that it’s easier to find fame by doing terrible things than by doing good. This is simply one of the themes explored by director Adam Wingard in A Horrible Way To Die. One of [...]