Month: April 2020

Ernest Lubitsch is one of the finest directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. I’ve waxed lyrical about him before in my post on To Be Or Not To Be, but every time I watch one of his movies, I am dazzled by his sensational satire and his incredible ability to construct complex but relatable films.… Continue reading The Class of Cluny Brown (1946) — Pale Writer

When my mother was a child, her mother took she and my mother’s younger brother to the movies whenever she was able. The mother of four, my grandmother had little time for leisure activities, but books and movies were very important to her, and she passed her love for both onto her two youngest children. via… Continue reading A Silver Discovery: How I became a classic film fan — Pale Writer

A few months ago I undertook the task of watching all fourteen of the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. I am very glad to say that I was successful in my little quest. Like most classic film fans, my feelings about the series are mixed. I feel that the majority of the […]… Continue reading A Glowing Mist: Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Claw (1944) — Pale Writer

Like most people, my first exposure to Vincent Price was through horror films, and the only early film of his that I really knew was Dragonwyck. But over the years, as my appreciation for classic film has continued to grow and mature, I’ve sought out more films from his pre-horror career, such as the two… Continue reading Paging Dr Death: Vincent Price in “Shock” (1946) — Pale Writer

Some of the films made in this world, were created for sick and twisted individuals that find strange pleasure in watching the most atrocious scenes. Let’s start with some of the tamer scenes in extreme horror films, to please those of you who might not be quite ready for the serious brutally and for those […]… Continue reading Most disturbing moments in film – part 1 —

For the longest time people have asked me “But what exactly is extreme horror?” and it’s an exceptionally valid question to ask. It’s easy to determine what constitutes as something within the horror genre, especially when it comes to film, but extreme cinema is a little more complicated because it doesn’t always necessarily rely on […]… Continue reading An Introduction to Extreme Cinema: What makes an extreme horror film? —

In part 1 of this series looking at the most disturbing moments in film, we visited some classic extreme horror films that were easy to remember for their shocking and controversial elements. However, it seems like disturbing scenes are in abundance when it comes to horror films and many of us hold specific memories of […]… Continue reading Most disturbing moments in film – part 2 —

Back in the 70s one of the most controversial films was released into the world in 1978, and shocked the audiences to their very core. That film was none other than Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave aka Day of the Woman. With an offensive and aggressive title alone, there was no surprise that… Continue reading I Spit On Your Grave Deja Vu (2019) review —

Another 10 years have passed by, and for me they have been incredibly important to my knowledge growth of the horror genre. The reason being that it was only around 12 years ago that I discovered my undying love for the terrifying genre, and therefore it’s truly been a discovery period for me, with both […]… Continue reading 25 Best Horror Films of the Decade —