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  • Orphan: Who’s a good girl, then?

    Orphan: Who’s a good girl, then?

    20th November 2009 | 4 comments | 3 people like this

    Jaume Collet-Serra's horror/thriller Orphan certainly treads familiar territory. Imperfect parents Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) head off to the local orphanage to adopt a brother or sister for their two children. With Kate's recent still birth and bouts of alcoholism and infidelity playing heavily in the backstory the pair settle, as much as you don't want them too, on the obviously odd, charming and artistic Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman),...

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  • Film Review: Paranormal Activity

    Film Review: Paranormal Activity

    2nd November 2009 | 11 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    A box of soap powder falling off a shelf in your laundry in the middle of the night may not seem like the most terrifying thing to ever happen. But, for ghost enthusiast and general scared little kid Oren Peli, it was the night that sparked the idea that would lead him to fund a $15,000 dollar horror film called Paranormal Activity. A $15,000 horror film which has since become...

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  • Thirst: Chan-wook Park’s Vampire Curveball

    Thirst: Chan-wook Park’s Vampire Curveball

    20th October 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Chan-wook Park's draw to the horror genre has always been apparent. The dark brutal subject matter of his films, revolving around revenge, mystery, the unattainable and ultimately themes of  regret, redemption and water (which signifies trouble and death in all of Park's Films) could almost be part Alfred Hitchcock, part Roman Polanski and part Sam Fuller. The beautifully lit and gorgeous locked off compositions apparent in his Vengeance trilogy especially,...

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  • Madness or Genius? : The New Vampire Revival

    Madness or Genius? : The New Vampire Revival

    20th August 2009 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Ever since Bram Stoker went on the most successful writers retreat of all time and penned Dracula, the vampire story has molded and helped evolve not only the horror genre as we know it today but, really, film as a whole. Watching Max Schreck walk out of the shadows in 1922's Nosferatu is still kinda unsettling and is surely an image we've seen as much as we have Bogart smoking,...

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  • Lars Von Trier, Antichrist and Me

    Lars Von Trier, Antichrist and Me

    27th July 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    I've had many strange moments with Lars "Von" Trier.
    I sat, soaking wet, in a thunderstorm at an outdoor cinema in Australia and cried like a baby at the end of Dancer in the Dark, I laughed so inappropriately at the orgy scene in  The Idiots that I had to leave the cinema until it was over and I still can't watch the end of Breaking the Waves with anyone else...

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Neil Innes

Neil Innes

Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.