FIlmed partway through Cast Away (allowing Tom Hanks to lose weight for the role) director Robert Zemeckis teamed up with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford to deliver a creepy ghost story. Technically excellent, and practically Hitchcockian in its execution and style, What Lies Beneath is something to watch featuring solid performances by Pfeiffer and Ford,…
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – John Carpenter
I got to rewatch on of my favourite John Carpenter films for the blog this week, In the Mouth of Madness, which brings Lovecraftian horror to the screen in a way that hadn’t been done before, and honestly helped introduce me to his writing, which albeit is racist, but also incredibly unnerving and frightening, happily…
Terminator Salvation (2009) – McG
The final stop with the Sc-Fi Chronicles book for me with the Terminator franchise, as I’ve now had a chance to cover all of them, is this interesting entry from the same pair of writers who gave us Rise of the Machines. This one could have been alright, though I feel McG was probably the…
The Mind Reels 