Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t just the “Master of Suspense.” He was also the master of making you terrified of things you previously ignored: showers, motels, and, in this case, your friendly neighbourhood pigeons. The Birds is the quintessential “When Animals Attack” movie, setting the blueprint for everything from Jaws to Cujo. It’s elegant chaos, absurd terror,…
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The Deadly Bees (1966) – Review
The killer bee subgenre of ecological horror films was kicked off in the 1970s with such films as Killer Bees and Savage Bees, but over in Great Britain, they got a jump on things with a film based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel “A Taste for Honey,” a story that took a Sherlockian approach to…
The Visitor (1979) – Review
There is something truly fascinating about a movie that starts out making very little sense and then proceeds to get even more messed up and nonsensical as it goes. That is the case with Giulio Paradisi’s 1979 new age meets Star Wars flick called The Visitor, but what is truly astounding is the calibre of people…