Say what you like about Roger Ebert, but the guy is probably doing more to turn me on to movies I haven’t seen these days than anybody else. Such was surely the case with Tyrannosaur, a darling of British film critics last year. I finally got around to seeing it this weekend, and I was immediately struck […]
When I heard that Takeshi Miike had a new movie out, I took the news with the same mix of anticipation and dread I would get were my Brazialian jiu-jitsu teacher to ask me to join him on the mat: I am going to get to watch a master at work, but by the time it’s over […]
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) It shall not end with a bang, but a whimper, so says T.S. Eliot. It is a notion curiously avoided by most post-apocalyptic film, which even when showing us a ruined, depopulated world somehow […]
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) If you haven’t yet seen Battle Royale, you’re not alone. Despite this film’s cult status, its challenging subject matter made it the kind of movie that wasn’t even available on Region 1 DVDs, let […]
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) There’s something going on over in Spain, because while the American movie industry has seemingly lost its ability to produce a decent creepy movie, Spanish filmmakers, led by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) have […]
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) Here’s the thing: I love zombie movies. I always have. I always will. As far as horror movies go, this genre is my favorite because it mines a theme that I find deeply disturbing: […]