At the mercy of their captors, they are forced to play a twisted game of life or death called 31.
You know, I like a good old dark house story, and this one does a solid job of building a sufficiently brooding, spooky atmosphere with shadows a-plenty and fog machines in overdrive. rather impressive and binet's only feature! at least three nested stories which intertwine to oneiric effect amid dark gothic atmosphere.
Surrealist plot of eroticism and madness drawing on unica zurn's dark spring and stoker's dracula's guest. les jeux de la comtesse dolingen de gratz (catherine binet, 1981)
the abominable dr phibes (robert fuest, 1971)Ī lot of fun even if i don't know how to rate it yet! also it's on youtubeġ1. So 80s, very silly but kinda fun too 6/10
return of the living dead (dan o'bannon, 1985) Similar plot to the fog, kind of hilarious special effects 6/10Ĩ. kyûketsu dokuro-sen/the living skeleton, (hiroshi matsuno, 1968) minimalist aesthetic, becomes a mad slasher in the last 30 mins 8/10ħ. There's a ghost ok? and great performance by edward g robinson 7/10Ĭrazy weird hong kong horror set in san francisco. Really beautiful, yet also surprisingly gory for 1959! 8/10! tôkaidô yotsuya kaidan aka the ghost of yotsuya (nobuo nakagawa, 1959) john barrymore is pretty awesome though 6/10Ĥ. Static compositions and too many intertitles. dr jekyll and mr hyde (john s robertson, 1920) This is more like gothic noir but it does have murder? and louis hayward and elsa lanchester. ladies in retirement (charles vidor, 1941) Lovely romantic ghost story from india (and a freeleach on kg) 8/10Ģ.