The Castle Church Door

DEMENTOPHOBIST SAID:“You should stop commenting on films. You really don't know how to read them. I'm not a fan of your biblical hermeneutic, but it least it has some sort of foundation. Your understanding of film is weak--perhaps buolt on sand. You do not understand _28 Days_ later. The fact that you call _I am Legend_ a better film than _28 Days Later_ especially in terms of the ...

I recently saw I Am Legend (2007) on DVD. It’s a good film—although it would have been a better film had the same care and patience been lavished on the second half. I don’t know if this is one of those situations in which the original vision of the director was mutilated by producers who were afraid an audience wouldn’t have the attention span to appreciate a more ...

One of the stock, cinematic genres is the horror genre. This, of itself, is subdivisible into a number of sometimes distinct and sometimes intermingled themes.There’s the creature-feature. Perhaps this plays to some subliminal, childish fear of the monster under the bed.It takes an infinite variety of forms, but Frankenstein may be the cinematic prototype.A variant on the creature-feature is the werewolf. But this has never had the dramatic ...

One of the stock, cinematic genres is the horror genre. This, of itself, is subdivisible into a number of sometimes distinct and sometimes intermingled themes.There’s the creature-feature. Perhaps this plays to some subliminal, childish fear of the monster under the bed.It takes an infinite variety of forms, but Frankenstein may be the cinematic prototype.A variant on the creature-feature is the werewolf. But this has never had the dramatic ...

I finally got around to watching Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven.” It succeeds at certain levels, and had the potential to be a modern masterpiece. But because he used it as a vehicle to score political points, it fell short of greatness.It succeeds at a visual level, which is obviously important in a film, where visuals are a dominant element of the medium. Scott has a wonderful eye. ...