Harry Hill’s humour is rooted in nudge-wink end of the pier jokes and dark surrealism, so I was delighted to see that he’d created a short film, ‘The Jillon’, directed by Arthur Studholme. It’s everything you expected and a pinch of what you didn’t. It’s completely bonkers, but a shade darker than we’re used toContinue reading “Short Film Review: The Jillon”
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Just Step Sideways: Richard Dawson- The Hermit
He’s possibly the closest thing we’ve got to a modern-day William Blake, with his lyrical, wry and political musings on our troubled isle.. Now, the genius that is Richard Dawson, officially releases the forty one minute video for The Hermit. Directed by film maker James Hankins and filmed in South West England in the summerContinue reading “Just Step Sideways: Richard Dawson- The Hermit”
Frankenweenie(1984)
In many ways, the original short film version of Frankenweenie is a sharp satire on horror cinema and its tropes: after all, Shelley Duvall plays the Mom, which foreshadows the macabre undertow (isn’t she the archetypal horror film Mom as resilient Wendy Torrance in The Shining?) Written by Lenny Ripps and directed by a youngContinue reading “Frankenweenie(1984)”
