Really Awful Movies

The Fly (1986)

Eat shit. Millions of flies can’t be wrong. Bathroom graffiti Genomic manipulation came to prominence in the 1970s. Salk Institute researcher Rudolf Jaenisch and research partner Beatrice Mintz injected pre-embryonic mouse cellular tissue with a monkey virus. The monkey DNA integrated into the host’s genome. David Cronenberg’s The Fly, is “transgenic,” an organism that containsContinue reading “The Fly (1986)”

HI-8 (Horror Independent Eight)

In 1995, Danish director Lars Von Trier started the “Dogme 95” movement: rules to take filmmaking back to the roots of traditional storytelling, acting and themes while eschewing elaborate uses of special effects and technology. As such, filmmakers that participated in the movement were forbidden from shooting anywhere but on location. They could only use diegeticContinue reading “HI-8 (Horror Independent Eight)”