Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Rohan Morbey with Licence to Kill… By the late 1980s James Bond had become a mere imitation of the character has was in the series’ early entries; Roger Moore’s final turn in A View […]

Basket Case, 1982. Directed by Frank Henenlotter.Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne, Lloyd Pace and Bill Freeman. SYNOPSIS: A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will. Growing up, Basket Case was a […]

Basket Case 2, 1990. Directed by Frank Henenlotter.Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross, Heather Rattray, Beverly Bonner, Chad Brown and Leonard Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail. Picking up directly after the climax of the […]

Basket Case 3: The Progeny, 1991. Directed by Frank Henenlotter.Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Gil Roper, Dan Biggers, Jim O’Doherty and Tina Louise Hilbert. SYNOPSIS: Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers […]

Monstro! (a.k.a El monstro del mar!, 2010. Written and Directed by Stuart Simpson.Starring Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden and Kate Watts. SYNOPSIS: Three gorgeous but lethal assassins arrive in a sleepy seaside town, where they accidentally awaken a vicious sea creature and have to fight for survival as the monster reaps its […]

El alma de las moscas (The Soul of Flies), 2010. Written and Directed by Jonathan Cenzual Burley.Starring Jonathan Cenzual Burley, Andrea Calabrese and Feliz Cenzua. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers who have never met are brought together by their father who they never knew. On their way to his funeral, a mysterious road movie intertwined with dream […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Ben Child, for The Guardian covered an interesting turn of events when Hugo Weaving mocked his role in Michael Bay’s Transformers. Suffice to say, Bay didn’t let it go quietly: “In remarks he later deleted – but not before several sites had captured a screenshot – Bay implied […]

Jeffrey Aidoo chats with filmmaker Oren Peli, director of Paranormal Activity and writer-producer of Chernobyl Diaries… Oren Peli’s rise to success has been a meteoric one; the original Paranormal Activity film about a young couple who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home which was written and directed by Peli has earned approximately […]

After Lucia (Spanish: Después de Lucía), 2012. Directed by Michel Franco.Starring Tessa Ía González Norvind, Gonzalo Vega Sisto, Tamara Yazbek Bernal, Hernán Mendoza, Paloma Cervantes and Juan Carlos Barranco..  SYNOPSIS: After the tragic death of his wife, a father and his daughter move to Mexico City looking for a fresh start only to find that starting […]

Compliance, 2012. Written and Directed by Craig Zobel.Starring Anne Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger and James McCaffrey. SYNOPSIS: A prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager he’s a police officer investigating one of her employees. Events escalate, eventually harming everyone involved in different ways. Getting up at six in the […]