Horror
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the horror genre.
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Akira
A brief post where I bemoan people’s inability to comprehend the plot of ‘Akira,’ a movie I consider fairly simple and easy to follow. It’s also quite good! (read more)
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Gantz
Hiroya Oku’s ‘Gantz’ is exploitative, violent, and shameless—and there’s nothing else quite like it. (Includes ‘Gantz/Nishi’ and ‘Gantz Origins: Oku Hiroya and SF Movie Stories.’) (read more)
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Young Frankenstein
Oh, no! Young Frankenstein is perfectly good with nothing easy for me to pick on. All I can give this one is that it was a movie almost completely focused on laughs, and I’ve laughed harder. Gene Wilder is phenomenal, yet Peter Boyle almost steals the show. It’s a waste he practically disappears from the… (read more)
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The Blob
“The Blob” could also be used to describe the quality of its screenplay. Grotesque practical effects, and some terrible green screening. A slow start with too much focus on plot and characters, but a lightly likable cast. A solid premise with genuinely tense potential, yet limited by frequent dips into B-movie self-parody. This movie never… (read more)
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Twilight of the Dark Master
Desperately seeking something as compelling as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, I watched Twilight of the Dark Master, an OVA so forgettable that I had to pad out this blurb with anything else. (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)
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Serial Experiments Lain
‘Serial Experiments Lain’ is a gripping, shockingly prescient, surrealist metaphorical exploration of how the internet can warp one’s self-perception and their relationship to the world around them. (read more)
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Serial Experiments Lain: The Nightmare of Fabrication
‘The Nightmare of Fabrication’ is a short, one-shot spinoff of the classic anime series ‘Serial Experiments Lain.’ (read more)
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Alien
One of my most controversial movie opinions is that I’m not that into Alien. It surprises even myself, as I love its concept. I like horror in general, and the relative novelty of sci-fi horror elevates proceedings. I’m even a particular fan of cosmic horror, and while the immediate threat of the Xenomorph isn’t dissimilar… (read more)