It Chapter Two: Not just a horror film, worth watching

September 18, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes After the fascinating tale of It produced in 2017, viewers come back to the town of Derry to finish what ‘The Losers Club’ started 27 years ago with Pennywise the dancing clown. In It Chapter Two, Directed by Andy Muschetti, the audience becomes acquainted with characters and plots. These plots are engaging but ultimately lead to dead ends in developing […]

CANNONIZED CINEMA: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Cinema Infernal

October 17, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes Of all the cinematic genres, horror is one of the least pretentious. Scary movies don’t seek out critical acclaim. They don’t aspire to inspire. Horror films know what they’re about  – frightening the ever-loving pants off you.  No more, no less.   Yet slasher flicks, gorefests and other types of terror serve an important emotional […]

Stephen King: king of movies

September 19, 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutes As I finished the last page of Stephen King’s novel “Thinner,” I started to think of how the story could translate into film. There would be technical aspects, such as getting an overweight actor to loose weight during the course of the movie to the point he’s emaciated but I figured it would be an […]