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| Hippy's Favourite Film Festival | |
| Best Horror Films | |
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An American Werewolf in London
An American becomes a werewolf, in London An interesting reworking of the traditional werewolf story, in the main, set in England's capital. Quite well put together with some interestingly humorous interludes, a multiple vehicle pile-up and a notable dream within a dream sequence. Don't Look Now
An architect sees visions of his dead daughter whilst restoring a church in Venice Set in Venice, the film has a particularly murky feel to it as our architect repeatedly sees fleeting glances of his dead daughter. With a plot covering grief, the church, psychic mediums, murder and visions; the film is intriguing and far from plain sailing. The expected ending, pretty obvious with hindsight, is amazingly surprising and well executed and not what is expected at the time it arrives. Psychomania
Bat Into Hell A very British, tongue-in-cheek, horror film about a gang of bikers that discover they can come back to life if they die whilst comitting suicide. It all makes for some bizarre and amusing suicides scenes. The Thing
Scientists discover an alien lifeform beneath the Artic surface A much more horrific remake of the 1951 original, which was credited as the first to put a space monster on film. A highly suspenseful film that gets to grips with the isolation, fear and distrust amonst the characters as they are trapped with no hope of rescue whilst the alien slowly overwhelms them. The special effects are extremely well done, a fact that alienated many of the audience, and Carpenter's film never received the same acclaim as the original. The film is firmly placed in the horror genre not that of science fiction which goes someway to explaining the, badly tageted, audiences' response. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First published sometime before Tuesday the 16th of November, 1999
Last upload was on Wednesday the 7th of January, 2004 at 06:10:51 |
