The best horrors exploit limited space, in both senses of the term in Alien, but also coeds confined to their sorority house in Black Christmas, spelunkers in The Descent or the protagonist in P2, stuck in an underground parking garage on Christmas Eve. Directed by Franck Khalfoun — the Frenchman responsible for moving the singularContinue reading “P2”
Tag Archives: Movies from the 2000s
Revisiting Hostel
In the 2000s, films like Hostel, Saw and the like represented a tonal shift to torture, an ugly, bleak era somewhat analogous to the Italian cannibal genre period, one which we occasionally visit, but seldom revisit on this site for probably obvious reasons. Tying someone to a chair or a pyre and abusing them isContinue reading “Revisiting Hostel”