Director Sophia Takal’s achievement is that she’s crafted something relatably scary out of the personal emotions and tensions attendant to her particular holiday.
Although its plot hinges on reincarnation, BETWEEN WORLDS isn’t really a horror film, and in fact it doesn’t fit into any conventional genre slot. It’s best defined as a Bugnuts Crazy Nicolas Cage Movie, which is fast becoming a genre unto itself.
I’d like to draw attention to an excellent installment of a short-lived, now mostly lost (only 2 – of 7 – other episodes are extant) series DEAD OF NIGHT (1972).
We invited CHRIS BUCK, former Detective Sergeant of the Toronto Homicide Squad, to get procedural on Lars von Trier's new serial killer opus THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
SCARECROWS is a funny, well-cast, well shot, and an overall well made little film that deserves to be seen at least once.
