PREVIEWS

If you’re a sucker for body horror, then this my friend is right up your alley! Yes, pun intended. Think David Cronenberg jizzing all over a Takashi Miike script. Dutch director Tom Six turns in this opus about three unfortunate people doomed by the hands of one demented Doctor. Renowned Dr Heiter is a specialist in separating Siamese twins, and has a hair-brained scheme to connect people, in more ways than one. Needless to say, things take an ugly, nasty turn. Two American girls become stranded and find themselves at the door of the warped doctors lair-come-hospital of torture-doom. Seizing his moment to find a head, he takes hold of a Japanese tourist. Tissue matches are done, and there’s...

Clive Barker’s Book of Blood (UK DVD release: 26/10/2009) Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu’s investigations lead her to Simon McNeal, a college student who appears to be channelling messages from the dead. As their erotic relationship develops the line between the worlds of the living and the dead become blurred and finally collapse in a stunning and astonishing climax. This, the frame for the Barker’s Books of Blood novels, is the seventh story to be adapted from the series, the others being: Rawhead Rex (filmed in 1986) Cabal (released in 1990 as Nightbreed) The Forbidden (filmed in 1992 as Candyman) The Last Illusion (filmed in 1995 as Lord of Illusions) The Body Politic (filmed in 1997 within Quicksilver Highway for...

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A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother’s grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, “Eden”, where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. News reaches FYH of a so-called “new” Antichrist trailer released today for Lars von Trier’s imminent must-see film Antichrist. If you’ve been hounding every Cannes press...

JENNIFER’S BODY is entertaining, watchable, and at times great. But as a whole it fails to resonate. If you are a horror geek, Diablo Cody-obsessed, or are 14-18, rush right out and see it. Otherwise, catch it on DVD. Or cellphone, or however the Diablo Cody demographic watches movies. Jennifer’s Body at the 1st round of Midnite Madness at Toronto’s International Film Festival – via Ain’t It Cool News Seems the Buffy/Whedon comparisons were well founded. And like any zeitgeisty pop-culture reference, Cody’s “snarky” (shudder) on-the-pulse dialogue will improve like yesterday’s glass of red wine. The joy of Whedon’s dialogue is that he makes stuff up, so it sticks. Unlike the Buffy cast’s wardrobe choices … Miaow, etc. Or...