If we are honest, whilst we at Barking Mad About Films will happily watch anything, the Western maybe our least favourite genre. However we liked The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, 2 horror films from director Ti West, so when we heard he had directed a western called In A Valley of Violence, we decided to check it out. The film follows Paul (Ethan Hawke) a drifter, … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Films Talk Sequels: The Good & The Bad
Way back when Sigourney Weaver first faced off against Ridley Scott’s Alien, no one knew the franchise would be as successful as it is now, of course, things could have been different, had it not had such an incredible sequel in James Cameron’s Aliens that more sequels; prequels and spin-offs followed! By then we were so invested in the Aliens, we rushed out for films … [Read more...]
Should You Spend Time In The Loft; An All-Star Thriller?
We recently picked up a film we had not heard of called The Loft in our local Poundland, a source of many low budget films on DVD (see our post here ) We were drawn to it thanks to its great cast. This one is a remake of Loft, but retains the same Director Erik Van Looy with a script by Wesley Strick, from Bart De Pauw’s original screenplay. The film is about 5 friends, … [Read more...]
BMAF Go On Cinema Trip To see Experiment From Belko!
Our most recent cinema outing was to see The Belko Experiment, the trailers had us interested as it pitched it as almost the Hunger Games meets The Office. It is based on a script by James Gunn, who decided to discard it when upon completion he was going through a divorce, and the thought of being involved in a film involving the killing of loved ones didn’t sit right with … [Read more...]
We Enjoy A Classic FX Double Bill of Films
In the UK we have various ‘Freeview’ channels which air movies, some show older classics, like the Horror channel, which we have blogged about previously. Another is Sony’s ‘Moviemix’ channel. A film we discovered was a 1986 thriller called F/X: Murder by Illusion. The film, directed by Robert Mandel, from a script by Gregory Fleeman & Robert T. Megginson, follows … [Read more...]