Genre Mastery and True Terror: Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a showcase for its writer-director’s obvious love and talent for genre cinema.
The Invisible Man is a showcase for its writer-director’s obvious love and talent for genre cinema.
Thanks to Universal Pictures Australia, ccpopculture has 5 double passes to give away to The Invisible Man, releasing in Australian cinemas Thursday February 27th.
Upgrade is a clever genre mash-up. The film merges the tropes of the traditional revenge flick with speculative sci-fi,
at once indulging in genre thrills and commenting upon them.
I want to play a game.
The rules are simple. Before you sits a television, the seven Saw movies and a timer set to 666 minutes.
Watch all seven movies before the timer runs out; fail, and you’ll be subject to the most gratuitous, elaborate torture devices our team of underpaid Hollywood screenwriters can come up with.
It’s difficult for ghost stories to maintain the careful balance of tension and release across the length of a feature length film. Most feature some good scares, but thin characterisation necessitated by poor decisions leads to boring, uneventful stretches. James Wan overcomes this problem with Insidious by breaking the film up into three sections: a…