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Horror film binge

December 01, 2021 by Varya Clark in Film

When my husband went away for three weeks dayum I was relieved. Finally… FINALLY … a sweet 21-day binge on horror films. Here are the highlights.

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December 01, 2021 /Varya Clark
Climax, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, His House, The Mortuary Collection, Girl on the Third Floor, The Boy Behind the Door, The Lighthouse, Relic, Apostle, Candyman 2021, Drag Me to Hell, The Perfection, PG: Psycho Goreman, I See You, The Vigil, horror film reviews, best horror films of the decade
Film

Title Fright : Train to Busan v 28 Weeks later

May 22, 2020 by Varya Clark in Film, Pandemics, Politics, Title Fright, Zombies

I want to zoom in on the transformation of the father into a zombie…

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May 22, 2020 /Varya Clark
Train to Busan, Robert Carlyle, Yeon Sang-ho, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, zombies, zombie pandemic, horror film, family horror, horror cinema, best zombie films, great zombie films, La Horde
Film, Pandemics, Politics, Title Fright, Zombies

Guts Reaction – The Joker

February 11, 2020 by Varya Clark in Guts Reaction, Film

Not everybody will see Arthur Fleck as vulnerable because not everybody has the luxury. Some of us have experienced nastier versions of him…

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February 11, 2020 /Varya Clark
The Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips, mental health, violent offending, copycat violence, copycat, glamourising violence, empathy, disability art, American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, Carrie, Monster, Taxi Driver, Gotham, supervillain, DC cinematic universe, DC extended universe
Guts Reaction, Film

Guts Reaction - Eyes of My Mother

February 23, 2018 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction

Now I HATE torture porn, but I loved this film. What gives?

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February 23, 2018 /Varya Clark
eyes of my mother, Nicolas Pesce, Kika Magalhães
Film, Guts Reaction

Title Fright - Hellraiser vs Candyman

February 19, 2018 by Varya Clark in Film, Title Fright, Video

Clive Barker is a specialist subject and I'm no expert, but these to films are dear to my heart and I had to go there.

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February 19, 2018 /Varya Clark
Clive Barker, Bernard Rose, Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Doug Bradley, Cenobites, Frank, Julia Cotton, Frank Cotton, Claire Higgins, Ashley Laurence
Film, Title Fright, Video

Guts Reaction: It

February 08, 2018 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction

I didn’t see how there could be anything good about this, but it’s lovely to be wrong.

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February 08, 2018 /Varya Clark
It, Bill Skarsgard, Stephen King, Andy Muschietti, Pennywise, scary clown
Film, Guts Reaction

Guts Reaction: Personal Shopper

January 21, 2018 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction

Slow and mournful but also way scarier than most horror films…

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January 21, 2018 /Varya Clark
K-Stew, Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas, Paris, ghosts
Film, Guts Reaction

Guts Reaction: Creep 2

January 18, 2018 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction

Renews the dynamic and results in a film that is just as riveting as the original, if not more so…

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January 18, 2018 /Varya Clark
Creep, Creep 2, Mark Duplass, Desiree Akhavan, Patrick Brice
Film, Guts Reaction

Guts Reaction: Bucking Hell

January 04, 2018 by Varya Clark in Guts Reaction, Video, Film

A short film about three men stuck on a sinking ship, with only one life-jacket… I wanted it to be longer.

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January 04, 2018 /Varya Clark
short film, James Kermack, Samuel Beckett, Buckaroo, nautical
Guts Reaction, Video, Film

Guts Reaction: The Autopsy of Jane Doe

December 20, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction, Video

Takes the people we trust to look violent death in the eye – forensic pathologists – and strips them down…

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December 20, 2017 /Varya Clark
The autopsy of jane doe, new on netflix, Brian cox, Andre Ovredal
Film, Guts Reaction, Video

Title Fright - Train to Busan versus World War Z

December 11, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies

I initially intended to pair Train to Busan with La Horde, but Twitter said no.

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December 11, 2017 /Varya Clark
World War Z, Train to Busan, zombie, horror, film, titlefright, Title Fright, #titlefright
Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies
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Hell House LLC

December 01, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Never mind how Hell House LLC compares with other found footage films. It's a nearly perfect horror movie, period.

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December 01, 2017 /Varya Clark
Stephen Cognetti, Hell House LLC, found footage, horror, horror film
Film

A Cure for Wellness

November 24, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Self-indulgent, far too long and wildly overblown, but I still liked it a great deal…

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November 24, 2017 /Varya Clark
A Cure for Wellness, horror, Gore Verbinksi, Mia Goth, Dane DeHaan
Film
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Title Fright: Alien vs Predator

November 16, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film

My husband was quite disgusted by my Deadgirl v The Corpse of Anna Fritz blog, and asked why I didn’t do Alien versus Predator like ‘a normal woman’…

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November 16, 2017 /Varya Clark
Alien, predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ripley, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, action-horror, space horror, Alien vs. Predator, xenomorph, John McTiernan
Title Fright, Film
1 Comment

Title Fright: Deadgirl vs The Corpse of Anna Fritz!

November 13, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film

Why pit Deadgirl (2008) against The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)? Well, they are both about young men who have sex with dead women…

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November 13, 2017 /Varya Clark
#metoo, corpse of anna fritzl, deadgirl, zombies, harvey weinstein, Jimmy Saville, sexual abuse of women
Title Fright, Film
2 Comments

Rewatching The Babadook

November 03, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Rewatching The Babadook, it feels viscerally real, as if I've lived it.

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November 03, 2017 /Varya Clark
motherhood, horror, horror film, problem child, Babadook, Jennifer kent, Monster
Film

Another Kuso Blog

November 01, 2017 by Varya Clark in MV Clark, Film

My husband was shocked that I posted the trailer for Kuso in the blog post below because of the beaver shot on the freeze frame.

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November 01, 2017 /Varya Clark
Kuso, flying lotus, film review, sexism, #metoo
MV Clark, Film

Kuso

October 18, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

So Kuso, a film by Steve. What was all that about eh? As we say here in the UK about anything remotely unusual.

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October 18, 2017 /Varya Clark
horror, film, kuso, flying lotus, shudder, film review, music
Film