Author: Moving Pictures Film Club
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ANALYSIS: Dysfunctional communities in the work of Stephen King
Melissa Cox unpacks the dark heart of many of King’s communities… One of the most notable aspects of Stephen King’s writing is his impressively detailed world-building. The towns of Derry and Castle Rock are horror icons in themselves, providing the settings for interweaving stories spanning decades. As well as helping to convince generations of readers […]
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ANALYSIS: Keeping Secrets in King’s STORM OF THE CENTURY (1999)
Kim Morrison celebrates of one of King’s most under-seen 90s miniseries… Due to the sheer number of pages in a lot of his books, many of Stephen King’s works have been given the mini-series treatment rather than risk losing important details just to conform to a standard film’s runtime. However, in 1999, King decided to […]
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ANALYSIS: ROSE RED, 20 Years On
Ariel Powers-Schaub turns back the clock to examine a Stephen King mini-series that remixed Hill House with varying results… “A good house cuddles and comforts. A bad one fills us with instinctive unease. Bad houses hate our warmth, our humanness. That blind hate is what we mean when we use the word haunted.” Sound familiar? […]
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Hearts and Minds – Constance Petersen in SPELLBOUND (1945) – PART II
Rebecca McCallum concludes her analysis of Ingrid Bergman’s performance in Spellbound… I’ve Been Watching You It is not merely her colleagues who objectify and demean Constance, as throughout Spellbound she is underestimated and threatened by men occupying supposed positions of authority. There are several occurrences where she is questioned by or finds herself in the same room […]
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HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Hearts and Minds – Constance Petersen in SPELLBOUND (1945) – PART I
Rebecca McCallum continues her Hitchcock’s Women series, here looking at a character who risks everything for love… A figure sits behind a desk authoritatively. She wears glasses, a long white coat and is smoking whilst engrossed in work. In our first encounter with Spellbounds’ protagonist, Hitchcock codes Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) as masculine, mysterious and with multiple […]
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TOP 10: Most Traumatic Stephen King Moments
The killer clown that feeds on fear. Cursed ancient Indian burial grounds. A vengeful telekinetic teen. The ’58 Plymouth Fury that thirsts for blood. Just a few examples of the demons that gleefully traverse our nightmares, etched into our shared cultural fabric. So join Moving Pictures Film Club as we count down the top ten most […]
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ANALYSIS: The Power of the Losers in IT (1990)
Spoilers Much like Pennywise’s cyclical slumber, there was a 27 year gap between the original TV adaptation of IT in 1990 and Andy Muschietti’s big screen iteration. But what did the mini-series have to say about its central septych of characters, the Losers Club? Kim Morrison heads back to Derry to find out… The mini-series […]
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REVIEW: The Feast (2021)
dir. Lee Haven Jones An incredibly tense Welsh language folk horror, The Feast follows the traditional trope of city-folk-versus-rural-countryside but with more guts than your average The Wicker Man clone. Written by producer Roger Williams, director Haven Jones’ feature debut takes place mainly in a large, modern house that’s completely at odds with the surrounding […]
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ANALYSIS: Green is the Future – examining relationships in CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) and THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)
Kim Morrison dives into two creature features to explore how sub-aquatic relationships might offer a way of decoding real-world romances… Monsters falling in love with human women is something that pops up in the horror genre quite often. From King Kong climbing the Empire State Building with Ann clasped in his hand or Dracula romancing […]
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REVIEW: Ghosts of the Ozarks (2021)
dir. Matt Glass & Jordan Wayne Long America’s history has often proved fertile ground for horror, with the wrenching, destabilising energy it took to claim the country proving rich soil for creatives. As such there is real potential with this feature debut from co-directors Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long, based on their 2016 short: […]
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