Bullet In The Head
John Woo’s Bullet In The Head (1990) is his most fully realized portrait of male friendships. The film barrows much of its structure from The Deer Hunter (1978) but with… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
Hiruko The Goblin
The iconoclast Shinya Tsukamoto followed his avant-garde masterpiece Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) with the mainstream horror-comedy Hiruko The Goblin (1991). While Tsukamoto retains some of his trademark body-horror elements… Read more »
SubUrbia
It would be easy to mistake SubUrbia (1996) for another Dazed And Confused (1993). Superficially, the plot of SubUrbia is about a group of recent high school graduates who begin… Read more »
Sleepwalkers
Mick Garris and Stephen King have had a long and fruitful working relationship together, both good and bad. Their first full fledged collaboration, with Garris directing and King writing, was… Read more »
Daughter Of Darkness
Kai-Ming Lai’s Daughter Of Darkness (1993) is one of the best known entries in Hong Kong cinema’s Category III pseudo sub-genre. Category III films encompass a wide variety of genres… Read more »
Nowhere To Run
Jean-Claude Van Damme movie isn’t about cinematographic innovation and nobody has ever watched his movies with that in mind. A Van Damme movie is about corny one-liners, escapism and most… Read more »
Dream Lover
Nicholas Kazan, the son of Hollywood royalty, is better known for being a screenwriter than a director. Kazan has penned the scripts for Bicentennial Man (1999), At Close Range (1986)… Read more »
Castle Freak
Before going into production on Space Truckers (1996), Stuart Gordon directed Castle Freak (1995) for Charles Band’s Full Moon Features. Gordon was obliged to shoot Castle Freak on a low… Read more »
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
From the wild imagination of Makoto Tezuka comes Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990). Shot directly to video, Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero is an artifact of its time, boasting some of… Read more »
Desire & Hell At Sunset Motel
Desire & Hell At Sunset Motel (1992) was made at the height of the Neo-Noir craze that swept independent and straight-to-video productions in the late eighties and early nineties. Of… Read more »
