Horror
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the horror genre.
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Hellsing Ultimate
‘Hellsing Ultimate’ is a bombastic OVA epic that brings Kouta Hirano’s action-horror saga to dramatic heights deserving of its Gothic influences. (read more)
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Bone Tomahawk
This already needs critical reevaluation. Bone Tomahawk is a new, unique perspective on the classic journey into the heart of darkness that’s been adapted previously by works such as Aguirre and Apocalypse Now. The slow natural pacing is informed by the greatest westerns and emphasizes the looming shadow of death the characters head into. Humorous… (read more)
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Berserk: The Chronicles of Wind Blades
When at its best, Berserk dwells up even more powerful emotions from its epic source manga, which is quite an accomplishment. (read more)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The McCarthyism allegory was never necessary to induce fear. It worked in the first place because assimilation and ostracization are a natural human phenomenon in any culture. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a good movie that avoids becoming a great one by ignoring the unique venues promised by its own concept. The tense hot-seat… (read more)
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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
The first entry in the ‘Zero Escape’ series, ‘999’ delivers horrors and thrills behind a puzzle-oriented, visual novel adventure. (read more)
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Resident Evil 4: Wii edition
My late playthrough of ‘Resident Evil 4’ has led me to the Wii version. How will one of the most influential games of the generation hold up? (read more)
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Angst
“Angst” is right. This portrait of a serial killer is nowhere hear engaging as a certain Henry’s, and the brutality shown is surprisingly tame for the era. Which is to say nothing of how it’s presented, with an incredible performance by Erwin Leder as he narrates his deranged fantasies while accompanied by a pseudo-documentary real-time… (read more)
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In the Mouth of Madness
In the Mouth of Madness has John Carpenter attempting his most direct Lovecraft tribute yet, complete with genuinely disturbing imagery and special effects that rival The Thing. There’s evidence of evolution here but also the opposite. Carpenter’s lost his sense of restraint, as evident by the awkward soundtrack that knocks off Metallica’s Black Album as… (read more)
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Day of the Dead
This movie’s reputation is bullshit. No one could ever explain how Night of the Living Dead is supposedly better, and even Dawn of the Living Dead gets a run for its money. Day of the Dead contains everything in the previous films, does it in less time, and still finds room for more subjects like… (read more)
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eXistenZ
David Cronenberg was about 56 years old at the time of writing eXistenZ and tackles the virtual reality craze as intelligently as you’d expect an old man to: embarrassingly. Technically and thematically, it’s just as instantly dated and worn out as other virtual reality stories around the same time, only it’s nihilistic so it persists,… (read more)