“Once you see it it, it’s too late,” is Smile’s tagline, but it’s not too late to sing the virtues of a film which, while offering plot beats similar to other IPs, has deservedly drummed up a lot of business. “Transmission” horror, moves something evil or nefarious from host to host. It’s a trope commonContinue reading “Smile”
Category Archives: Strange cinema
Parasite
The clock is ticking. A scientist is in a race against time to prevent a parasite from being loosed upon the world, to paraphrase Yeats. Parasite, not to be confused with the eponymous (and far superior) jet-black South Korean comedy – comes to us instead from Charles Band Land. Parasite (1982) has the plot ofContinue reading “Parasite”