B- Kind of a horror movie Written and directed by Michael O'Shea Believe it or not, Michael O'Shea found a new twist to the vampire genre: Avoiding the supernatural. Everything in The Transfiguration could, at least in theory, happen. The movie's vampire has no special powers or weaknesses. He can't turn into a bat. Neither … Continue reading The Transfiguration
Category: Horror
New haunted series at SFMOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) recently gave its Phyllis Wattis Theater an upgrade. And now they're combining forces with the San Francisco Film Society for a three-weekend series of Modern Cinema, with an emphasis on films both haunted and haunting. SFMOMA and SFFS aren't the only organizations involved. The festival will focus … Continue reading New haunted series at SFMOMA
Live Music for the Undead: Monday at the San Francisco International Film Festival
I only went to one San Francisco International Film Festival event on Monday, and that was Carl Theodore Dreyer's 1932 classic, Vampyre, with musical accompaniment by Mercury Rev and Simon Raymonde. It was at the Castro. Vampyre belongs on any list of great horror films. Todd Brown's Dracula, made the previous year, is stagy and … Continue reading Live Music for the Undead: Monday at the San Francisco International Film Festival
Undead comedy should have died sooner: What We Do in the Shadows
B- Mockumentary Written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi This vampire mockumentary from New Zealand feels a bit like an article in The Onion or The Borowitz Report. The headline and the first couple of paragraphs are very funny. But as you go deeper into it, you experience longer waits between laughs. The … Continue reading Undead comedy should have died sooner: What We Do in the Shadows
The Bay Area needs another film festival like it needs…
Like a herd of zombies hungry for human flesh, the 10th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival will take over the Balboa on November 29 and not let go until December 5. Then it will move to the New People Cinema, where it will continue to devour brains until the 19th. We think … Continue reading The Bay Area needs another film festival like it needs…
To Late for Halloween: My Blu-ray Review of Nosferatu
The big question about Kino's forthcoming Blu-ray release of Nosferatu, newly and beautifully restored: Why release a classic vampire movie three weeks after Halloween? Now, on with our review. Before Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, or even Bela Lugosi, Max Schreck created the first screen Dracula. He was not the elegant, sexy aristocrat of the night … Continue reading To Late for Halloween: My Blu-ray Review of Nosferatu
