Reviews: Film
Godsends and Bad Seeds: Evil Children and Child Deaths in Horror
Is The Godsend (1980) about an evil child or parental anxieties? JENNIFER WALLIS investigates.
Jennifer Wallis
12th December 2024
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Is The Godsend (1980) about an evil child or parental anxieties? JENNIFER WALLIS investigates.
RICHARD BAYLOR is a British underground filmmaker of the 1990s. DAVID KEREKES looks at a new collection of the films and the DIY era that shaped them.
The Kingsley Amis novel, The Green Man, adapted by the BBC in 1990, is a ghost story that revolves around a pub. One for the road?
King Penda and composer Edward Elgar visit a teenage boy in this archive BBC production that made little sense to director Alan Clarke.
Helloa! Below there! A look at The Signalman, part of the BBC’s festive A Ghost Story For Christmas thread, originally aired in 1976.
A gory and ridiculous 13-minute horror film. Jennifer Wallis reviews shlock short, All You Can Eat.
Hosted by the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, Fortean TV presented stories of the strange and supernatural to a primetime audience. Jennifer Wallis looks back.
Jennifer Wallis watches Rituals (1977) and explores Canadian wilderness on film in the tax shelter era.
Lust for Life, a 1956 biopic of artist Vincent Van Gogh, was shot on redundant film stock at director Vincente Minnelli’s insistence. Why?
One special effect would dominate the film — the parting of the Red Sea. Julian Upton crosses Cecil B. DeMille’s Biblical 1956 epic, The Ten Commandments.
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
