Shelfie Spectacular: Digging Into The Desperate Living Archives
Our YouTube channel posts featuring a selection of rare books, records and movies from the Desperate Living archives.
Tag: Dario Argento
The Alternative Christmas Movies
Take a walk on the wild side of Christmas movies with a selection of seasonal films that you may have overlooked.
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Stage Fright – The Last Gasp Of Classic Italian Genre Cinema
Michele Soavi’s theatrical slasher film feels like an extravagant end-of-an-era production.
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The Adventures Of Lil’ Reprobate – Episode 3
Noah Brown’s cartoon creation returns to continue to speak truth to power. Sort of.
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Make Your Appointment With Mayhem
This year’s Midland cult film festival includes ghostly cats, deranged birds and bloodthirsty unicorns.
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Blecch Glasses: Dario Argento And The Limitations Of Creativity
Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?
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Remembering Norman J. Warren
Looking back at the much-loved British horror film director and his remarkable body of work.
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Cozzilla: Luigi Cozzi’s Godzilla
The mad folly of the psychedelic, spectoramic, Futursound-enhanced 1977 Italian version of the Japanese monster movie classic.
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Maria Der’s Alternative Cinematic Universe
Maria Der’s wonderfully deranged visions from the tobacco cured VHS parlours of yesteryear allow us a peak and a prod at the underbelly of many beloved Hollywood favourites.
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Pure Motorised Instinct: The Pleasure And Pain Of Dawn Of The Dead
the most beloved of horror films has never felt more timely – but it remains a film that signals its misanthropy rather too loudly for its own good.
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Gucci And Floria Sigismondi Go Witchy
Floria Sigismondi’s new Gucci commercial mixes pretension, art and witchcraft to pleasing effect.
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In Remembrance Of John Saxon
Remembering the great cult movie star who died yesterday.
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