Movies Seen Recently: Tales That Witness Madness, The Darkest Hour, The Ice Pirates
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) – This British-made horror anthology wants very much to be in the vein of Amicus’s Tales From the Crypt or Asylum (both 1972), but it’s substandard fare. The four stories are either inconclusive or far too drawn out (or, for extra points, both at the same time), and the framing…
Movies Seen Recently: The Whisperer in Darkness, Thor: Ragnarok, Enter the Ninja
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) – The same people who made Lovecraft’s 1928 short story “The Call of Cthulhu” into a 2005 movie in the style of a contemporaneous silent film weren’t quite so faithful when adapting Lovecraft’s 1930 story “The Whisperer in Darkness” into a Universal Pictures-style “talkie” monster movie. There’s a lot more…
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