Welcome back to Let’s Scare Bryan to Death, where the new year brings a new movie (to me at least) that I get to discuss with some of the best voices in horror. This month, I’m talking to filmmaking duo Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks, whose debut feature Alone With You comes out February 4th in theaters and February 8th on VOD. And a hell of a debut it is, as their story about a woman trapped in her apartment is filled with dread and is also shockingly dynamic given most of it was shot with just the two of them in one location during quarantine.
Bennett and Brooks have explained that part of what makes their collaborations work is that they bring different sensibilities to their films, with Brooks having grown up on mainstream horror and Bennett being drawn to more independent, arthouse fare. So I was...
Bennett and Brooks have explained that part of what makes their collaborations work is that they bring different sensibilities to their films, with Brooks having grown up on mainstream horror and Bennett being drawn to more independent, arthouse fare. So I was...
- 1/26/2022
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
Originally released in October 1973 during a golden age of horror, Don’t Look Now is slightly lesser known and notorious than the aforementioned, but is an equally striking genre masterpiece and “existentialist fable” that has lost little of its edge over the past forty five years.
The script (adapted from a story by Daphne Du Maurier) sees Architectural Restorer John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) relocate to Venice following the tragic death of their daughter, Christine. Once there, they encounter a creepy, blind psychic, Heather (Hilary Mason) and her sister Wendy (Clelia Matania), who tell Laura that the ghost of her daughter is sitting between them in a restaurant. The sisters then insist the couple return to London as John’s life could be in danger.
Don’t Look Now’s foreboding, dreamy set-up starts serenely but culminates in anguish with the classic slow-motion shot of...
The script (adapted from a story by Daphne Du Maurier) sees Architectural Restorer John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) relocate to Venice following the tragic death of their daughter, Christine. Once there, they encounter a creepy, blind psychic, Heather (Hilary Mason) and her sister Wendy (Clelia Matania), who tell Laura that the ghost of her daughter is sitting between them in a restaurant. The sisters then insist the couple return to London as John’s life could be in danger.
Don’t Look Now’s foreboding, dreamy set-up starts serenely but culminates in anguish with the classic slow-motion shot of...
- 7/23/2019
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"She's trying to get in touch with us...! She's trying to warn us." Studiocanal UK has debuted a brand new trailer for the re-release of a 4K restoration of Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, first released in late 1973. This highly acclaimed horror thriller is regarded as one of Edgar Wright's all-time favorite films, and one of the best British films ever made. In the film, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star as a married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter who travel to Venice, where they meet two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. The cast includes Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, and Renato Scarpa. This trailer makes this film look better than ever. And if you've heard about it but have still never seen it, now is the time to finally catch up with and experience this unsettling horror masterpiece.
- 6/10/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) is showing July 20 - August 19 and Don't Look Now (1973) is showing July 30 - August 29, 2018 in Germany in the series Double Feature: Nicolas Roeg.Illustration by Wbyk.“[Nicolas] Roeg has more visual strategies than any other director I can think of,” wrote Pauline Kael in 1975, reviewing the director’s melancholic sci-fi allegory The Man Who Fell to Earth. She goes on to enumerate them while insisting that in the end they don’t add up to much, echoing the qualms she had with the similarly virtuosic Don’t Look Now two years earlier: “this is the fanciest, most carefully assembled enigma yet put on the screen.” In both reviews, Kael’s admiration for Roeg’s compositional sense (“he can charge a desolate landscape so that it seems ominously alive”) conflicts with suspicions that there’s less going on in his impeccably framed and...
- 7/27/2018
- MUBI
Criterion brings British auteur Nicolas Roeg’s most famous title to the fold, 1973’s enigmatic Don’t Look Now, a title that has influenced generations of filmmakers since its successful reception, and marks the director’s fifth title to be included in the illustrious collection. A refracted dreamscape of symbols and motifs, the film is a brooding jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t insist on answering all your questions, and happens to feature an unforgettable finale that’s lost none of its affect (despite providing iconic fodder for famed parodies, ranging from memorable bits in “Spaced” to “Absolutely Fabulous”).
After the drowning of their preadolescent daughter, Christine, in the backyard of their estate, John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) take off for Venice, where John accepts a job to restore some mosaics in one of the city’s many dilapidated churches. However, once there, the couple is introduced...
After the drowning of their preadolescent daughter, Christine, in the backyard of their estate, John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) take off for Venice, where John accepts a job to restore some mosaics in one of the city’s many dilapidated churches. However, once there, the couple is introduced...
- 2/17/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Reviewed by Kevin Scott, More Horror.com
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Written by: Daphne Du Maurier (Short Story), Allen Scott (Screenplay)
Cast: Donald Sutherland (John Baxter), Julie Christie (Laura Baxter), Hilary Mason (Heather), Clelia Matania (Wendy), Nicholas Salter (Johnny Baxter), Sharon Williams (Christine Baxter), Renato Scarpi (Inspector Longhi), Massimo Serato (Bishop Barbarrigo)
There’s a term for a spinoff hybrid of country music that I really can appreciate. “Countrypolitan” is the label used for country music with lush arrangements, maybe some horns and unconventional stringed instruments thrown in. A refined version of an elemental thing that was good on its own, but elevated while retaining the same beloved and established characteristics of its genre. The thing that is so great about “Countrypolitan” is that it gave some culture to the masses in a palatable way so that they almost didn’t know it. My Dad would...
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Written by: Daphne Du Maurier (Short Story), Allen Scott (Screenplay)
Cast: Donald Sutherland (John Baxter), Julie Christie (Laura Baxter), Hilary Mason (Heather), Clelia Matania (Wendy), Nicholas Salter (Johnny Baxter), Sharon Williams (Christine Baxter), Renato Scarpi (Inspector Longhi), Massimo Serato (Bishop Barbarrigo)
There’s a term for a spinoff hybrid of country music that I really can appreciate. “Countrypolitan” is the label used for country music with lush arrangements, maybe some horns and unconventional stringed instruments thrown in. A refined version of an elemental thing that was good on its own, but elevated while retaining the same beloved and established characteristics of its genre. The thing that is so great about “Countrypolitan” is that it gave some culture to the masses in a palatable way so that they almost didn’t know it. My Dad would...
- 9/9/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Originally released in 1973 as part of a double feature with The Wicker Man (now how amazing would that have been!?), Don’t Look Now has gone on to be considered one of the greatest British horror films ever released. Resplendent with an unnerving atmosphere from start to finish, coupled with an extremely symbolic style, artistic director Nicolas Roeg has created a film that remains unsettling to this very day. The team at Optimum Releasing have painstakingly upgraded the film to a full high definition experience, that whilst not free from imperfection is proficient enough to add a new element to the classic tale.
Released on Blu-ray from July 4th, follow the jump for our full review.
Based on a novel by classic suspense writer Daphne du Maurier (who is also responsible for the source material behind three of Hitchcock’s finest works: Jamaica Inn [1939], Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1963]), Don’t...
Released on Blu-ray from July 4th, follow the jump for our full review.
Based on a novel by classic suspense writer Daphne du Maurier (who is also responsible for the source material behind three of Hitchcock’s finest works: Jamaica Inn [1939], Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1963]), Don’t...
- 7/6/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
Originally released in 1973 as part of a double feature with The Wicker Man (now how amazing would that have been!?), Don’t Look Now has gone on to be considered one of the greatest British horror films ever released. Resplendent with an unnerving atmosphere from start to finish, coupled with an extremely symbolic style, artistic director Nicolas Roeg has created a film that remains unsettling to this very day. The team at Optimum Releasing have painstakingly upgraded the film to a full high definition experience, that whilst not free from imperfection is proficient enough to add a new element to the classic tale.
Released on Blu-ray from July 4th, follow the jump for our full review.
Based on a novel by classic suspense writer Daphne du Maurier (who is also responsible for the source material behind three of Hitchcock’s finest works: Jamaica Inn [1939], Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1963]), Don’t...
Released on Blu-ray from July 4th, follow the jump for our full review.
Based on a novel by classic suspense writer Daphne du Maurier (who is also responsible for the source material behind three of Hitchcock’s finest works: Jamaica Inn [1939], Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1963]), Don’t...
- 6/27/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
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