101 Horror Movie Nights
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Texas Chain Saw Massacre US 1974 Director: Tobe Hooper Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Teri McMinn, Jim Siedow If The Exorcist is the granddaddy of the modern horror movie then Texas Chain Saw Massacre must be the bastard inbred grandchild. Both films are legendary and have spawned sequels and remakes over the years. None… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
Dmetri Kakmi Penda’s Fen UK 1974 Director: Alan Clarke Cast: Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Georgine Anderson, Ron Smerczak, Hobgoblin and Angel I bet few have heard of this English oddity. Strictly speaking, it is not horror. Yet it combines elements of fantasy, folk horror, time slip, mysticism, folklore, gay coming-of-age story and wraps it all… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Don’t Look Now UK 1973 Director: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Adelina Poerio There is much to discuss about Don’t Look Now. Not least the revolutionary editing, the nonlinear time frame, the astonishing love scene, and Pino Donaggio’s brillaint music score. We will focus on a topic that has… Continue reading
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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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