The Uninvited Directed by Lewis Allen Written by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp & Gail Russell USA , 99 min – 1944. “If you listen to it long enough, all your senses are sharpened. You come by strange instincts. You get to recognize a peculiar cold that …
With the release of Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies, I decided to compile a list of my favourite films that take a non-traditional approach to the living-dead canon. More specifically, they all blend romance and zombies, in their own unique and twisted ways. This is the first of what will be a two part article. …
One of the few horror films kicking around the film festival circuit in 2012 that the entire Sound On Sight staff seemed to agree on, was Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Resolution. My colleagues and I have been tracking it ever since it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and so when the filmmakers recently …
‘The Wolf Man Directed by George Waggner Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, and Evelyn Ankers USA, 70 min – 1941. “The way you walked was thorny through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will …
American Horror Story Episode 12: “Continuum” Written by: Ryan Murphy Directed by: Craig Zisk Original Airdate: 16 January 2012 Each week I watch American Horror Story; I’m completely blown away and decide this is the best episode I’ve watched. Just when I thought it couldn’t possibly get any better cinematography wise, Continuum took the show …
Cinema, like most arts, exists beyond time and space. They are a medium of transportation, and for most of us, our only opportunity to fulfil our deepest desires and confront our darkest fears. That’s why it seems unfair to look back on a year in film and focus only on new releases. Our year end obsession with …
Bug Written by Tracy Letts Directed by William Friedkin USA/Germany, 2006 Most people upon watching William Friedkin’s 2006 effort will undoubtedly want to talk about the insanity or claustrophobia of the film. Those are rabbit holes that are well worth chasing, but they are secondary to the greatest strength of the picture. Bug is a …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 8: “Made To Suffer” Written by Robert Kirkman Directed by Bill Gierhart Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC With The Walking Dead taking a mid season break, there was no surprise that “Made to Suffer” would be busy in plot. But I never guessed it would have been …
The Wolf Man Directed by George Waggner Written by Curt Siodmak U.S.A., 1941 If this little classic horror movie marathon for Sound on Sight’s 31 Days of Horror has taught us anything, it is that the best monster movies are the ones that convey through their narratives the sense of tragedy surrounding the monster’s existence. …
Hellraiser Directed by: Clive Barker Written by: Clive Barker USA, 1987 For my final film for the 31 Days of Horror I wanted to choose one that isn’t the traditional ‘haunted house’ film. I wanted something that went beyond the walls of a house and cultivated its fear from something a little deeper. Hellraiser was …
The ABCs of Death Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun Angela Bettis Adrian Garcia Bogliano Jason Eisener Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Bruno Forzani and Héléne Cattet Xavier Gens Lee Hardcastle Thomas Malling Yoshihiro Nishimura Simon Rumley Marcel Sarmiento Jon Schnepp Srdjan Spasojevic Timo Tjahjanto Andrew Traucki Nacho Vigalondo Jake West Ti West Ben Wheatley Adam Wingard Yûdai Yamaguchi 2012, …
In 1968, director George A. Romero reinvented the “zombie” film with Night of the Living Dead and has since re-visited genre five times and counting with, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead. In the inaugural podcast from Sound on Sight’s …
The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972) Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo Written by Ernesto Gastaldi Italy, 94 min. The giallo film is obsessed with surface values, the quality and textures of materials; rough, soft, hard, supple, warm, cold, etc. The constant contrast between cold metal and hot flesh, the mixing of bodies and the release …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 2: “Sick” Written by Nichole Beattie Directed by Billy Gierhart Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Last week’s The Walking Dead season premiere saw Rick and co. finding a seemingly safe haven in a nearby prison. “Sick” begins from where “Seed” left us: The group has to find …
Antiviral Written by Brandon Cronenberg Directed by Brandon Cronenberg Canada, 2012 Whether it is on the level of style, theme or pedigree, Brandon Cronenberg’s new film Antiviral is sure to divide critical and popular reception. Audiences will almost universally fit into two categories: those who walk away inspired and those who will walk away alienated, …
The Innkeepers Directed by Ti West Written by Ti West 2011, USA Great horror films are made with the understanding that our imaginations only need a gentle nudge to send us spirally down a rabbit hole of fear. Our minds can wander to some terrible places when left to their own devices. In the Innkeepers …
Amityville II Directed by Damiano Damiani Written by Tommy Lee Wallace 1982, USA If Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap directed a movie, it would be Amityville II, because everything in this film is turned up to 11. It has all the subtlety and grace of a jackhammer hitting a gas line and exploding into a …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the stuff …
The Possession (2012) Directed by Ole Bornedal Written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White USA, 2012 The Possession is the newest film in a dominant sub-genre of horror family dramas that seem to be invading our theatres with increasing persistence. Very much on par with recent horror trends, at the center of the film is …
Juan Of The Dead (Juan de los Muertos) Directed by Alejandro Brugués Screenplay by Alejandro Brugués 2011, Spain / Cuba It seems every country nowadays feels the need to produce an epidemic/zombie film, something they can call their own. And so Cuba’s first zombie flick gives a distinct cultural perspective to breathe life into an …
Resolution Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson USA, 2012 An exploration of urban legends, examining our eternal relationship with storytelling, Resolution begins as the story of two friends. Michael, whose life is on the right path, receives a disturbing video of his friend Chris, and decides to go to the backwoods in order to …
V/H/S Written by David Bruckner, Ti West, Radio Silence, Simon Barrett, Nicholas Tecosky and Glenn McQuaid Directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg and Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella) USA, 2012 A collaborative anthology feature, V/H/S is essentially five short films in the “found footage” …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 13: “Beside the Dying Fire” Written by Robert Kirkman and Glen Mazzara Directed by Ernest Dickerson Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC Credit where credit’s due. Where the first season of The Walking Dead sputtered out with a crap CGI explosion that was way beyond its means at …