Tag Archives: Brian De Palma

Phantom Of The Paradise turns 50 this year. I watched it for the first time and all I have to say is Phantom Of The Opera meets Rocky Horror Picture Show. Which fun fact Rocky Horror was released a year after Phantom Of The Paradise.  Synopsis After record producer Swan(Paul Williams) …

An in-depth look at the first novel Stephen King published. The classic known as Carrie

What an honor to be able to write this article celebrating the 45th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s iconic Carrie. I jumped at the opportunity. However, when I realized the responsibility I had to represent the film in a way that would do it justice… well, I was a bit …

Since her breakout debut in 2014 with her stellar short film Call Girl (check it out here), Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian has consistently left the horror masses enamored. She directed a hefty 15 short films in under five years since, each one stellar in its own right. But it was her masterful …

Brian DePalma’s Dressed To Kill (1980) is a complicated whirlwind of a slasher film released during the first real wave of slasher films. There are some real legends in this film, including Michael Caine (The Dark Knight 2008, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988), Angie Dickinson (Oceans Eleven 2001, Even Cowgirls Get …

Who wants an original twist on a familiar idea? While the practice is commonplace nowadays, it wasn’t quite the case in the 1970s. Sure, the ’70s had plenty of changes implemented but there were still people out there thinking inside the box. Enter the mind of Brian De Palma, the …

Being a huge horror buff, I was having a hard time deciding what my favorite horror movie was. I love horror so much that nine out of ten times, I am watching horror in my house. However, we all have that one favorite, the film that we keep going back …

“Carrie is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie,” raves renowned film critic Roger Ebert in his 1976 review. “It’s also (and this is what makes it so good) an observant human portrait.” This is bold praise for Brian De Palma’s masterful 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King’s first horror novel. Carrie, the film, …

There’s a reason so many horror movies take place in high schools and/or focus on teenagers; as a colleague of mine is fond of saying: “High school is a horror movie!” Indeed, it’s a metaphor made in Hell. For adolescents charting the dangerous territory between childhood and adulthood, potentially catastrophic …