101 Horror Movie Nights
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Exorcist USA 1973 Director: William Friedkin Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Pazuzu The Exorcist was the first horror movie to make me realise the genre can deal with hefty subject matter. The first time I saw the film almost a decade after its initial release, it was… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Wicker Man UK 1973 Director: Robin Hardy Cast: Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Assorted Naked Pagans Warning: Deleterious Kukurbit, as I call him, did not write this month’s column. I did. My name is Mr Sozzled Scribbler. You may call me SS. Mr Kukurbit is off-colour and he asked me… Continue reading
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101 Movie Horror Nights
101 Horror Movie Nights with Dmetri Kakmi The Other USA 1972 Director: Robert Mulligan Cast: Uta Hagen, Martin Udvarnoky, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur Long-term readers of this terrifying column will have gathered I have a liking for the doppelgänger. Whether dead or alive, real or imagined, I am drawn to the evil twin, the unsavoury other,… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Sisters USA 1972 Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Lisle Wilson, Jennifer Salt, William Finney Brian De Palma is my favourite American filmmaker. I have been kneeling at his blood-drenched altar ever since I saw Carrie (1976) at a local drive-in. My eternal adoration was solidified with Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). The only… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Daughters of Darkness Belgium 1971 Director: Harry Kümel Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Andrea Rau, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers Be still my beating heart. We now speak in reverential tones about one of my favourite horror movies and the best vampire movie in existence. I speak about the swoon worthy, deliciously perverse… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Blood on Satan’s Claw England 1971 Director: Piers Haggard Cast: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, the Beast My first encounter with this low-budget gem was on late-night television. Bad print, censored and strewn with ads, it left little to no impression. Years later I saw the beautifully restored… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Kuroneko (Black Cat From the Grove) Japan 1968 Director: Kaneto Shindo Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Flying Cat Creature From Hell You must have gathered I have a weakness for the ghost story. Nothing gets my blood racing like a frightful apparition floating eerily down a misty corridor. Hush, my… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Whistle And I’ll Come To You UK 1968 Director: Jonathan Miller Cast: Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, Freda Dowie, Weird Spectral Apparition Cinema is the medium of sight and sound. It’s what you see and what you hear that matters, and how the two are deployed on screen to convey the essence of… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Night of the Living Dead USA 1968 Director: George Romero Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman, naked undead hordes Your morbid correspondent first saw this milestone in 1969, a year after its initial release. I was eight years old and growing up in Turkey. The film was dubbed in Turkish. Consequently,… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Rosemary’s Baby USA 1968 Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, Satan (offscreen) Rosemary’s Baby is the second of Roman Polanski’s so-called “apartment trilogy”. The first is Repulsion (1965) and the third is The Tenant (1976). In each an individual comes to a kind of self-realisation or transformation in a sinister,… Continue reading
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