Shoot the Glass

Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I’ve seen two of his movies and both are masterpieces. He made this right after Le Salaire de la Peur (read my review), yet it’s an entirely different kind of movie.
Unlike Le Salaire de la Peur, very little time is spent setting up [...]

Some time last year, I saw Werner Herzog’s remake of this film, starring Klaus Kinski. I was in the middle of catching up with the other Herzog/Kinski collaborations, and I really enjoyed it. I thought Kinski was very intense, and I liked the surreal quality of it. I had assumed that a lot of the [...]

When I saw Frankenstein about a year ago, I wasn’t very impressed. I found it dull and uninspiring. This, its sequel, was better.
So it turns out that Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his monster (Boris Karloff) didn’t die after all. Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) reveals what really happened next, in a sort of framing of this [...]

Before Peter Jackson made his remake of this beloved classic, I only knew what most people know about King Kong: he’s a great big ape who captures a beautiful woman on a remote island, gets captured himself and subsequently taken back to New York, where he eventually dies falling from the Empire State Building.
So let’s [...]

This is widely considered to be the first true horror film ever made, and it’s not hard to see why. Sure, it’s not exactly “scary” by today’s standards, but it still marks a true milestone in the way these stories are told. I found it to be surprising, pretty exciting, and atmospheric.
I was particularly impressed [...]