You do not need me to tell you, the grip that investigative thrillers have over pop-culture, and the lives of the officers tasked to track down these elusive individuals can make tantalising viewing. With so many well-known variations it can be hard to be novel, … Continue reading Taking Lives (2004)
Slashers follow some rules and patterns, that some audiences grow to love, others, unfortunately, grow to expect. Typically, it is some helpless teenagers, whose main task is to convince a sceptical authority that a murderer is on the loose and to stop them. In 2004, … Continue reading Macabre Month 3 Part IX: Mindhunters (2004)
When you score big and strike out on your first attempt you usually get creative freedom, I’ve talked about this before. The balance between trying to replicate the success and striking out and trying something new. When you’ve done this transition two more times since … Continue reading The Village (2004)
When you’ve got an idea that’s both popular and repeatable, it can be hard not to draw upon that well again and again. Yet each time, greater trade-offs must be made, as the creativity depletes. A straight to D.V.D. sequel requires this. So, in 2004 … Continue reading Cube Zero (2004)
As recent events are still demonstrating, the world of gender politics is greatly divided. With these partitions going back for not just a significant amount of time, but far into the identity of everybody involved. In 2004, a film remake of a cult 1970s British … Continue reading The Stepford Wives (2004)
The landscape is changing, this has been the topic of heavy and controversial debate, yet as humanity progresses forward technologically, it is becoming pretty apparent that we have to face an increasingly turbulent Mother Nature, who wants nothing more than revenge on us humans. Pretty … Continue reading Weather Warning Week – The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
