JENIFER

2005/Director: Dario Argento/Screenplay: Steven Weber, Story by Bruce Jones

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Cast: Steven Weber, Carrie Anne Fleming, Brenda James, Harris Allan, Beau Starr, Laurie Brunetti, Kevin Crofton, Julia Arkos, Jasmine Chan

Some people simply worship Dario Argento. For years and years I just figured I was missing something or that I was not enough of a true film fanatic to see the brilliance in his work that his rabid sycophants did. Now I remember my reactions to films like Tenebre ( by the way, the second picture from the left in my banner is a scene from Tenebre I touched up in Photoshop) and Phenomenon and even his “magnum opus” Suspiria and do not feel I was so out of touch by feeling confused and bewildered. They were not really great movies at all in my opinion. Maybe not terrible movies, but Tenebre was so… so… terrible that I do not see what the big deal has always been about that movie. Okay there was a great axe murder scene with a spurting stump, but the rest of the film was so weird and Italian. (more…)

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I have been trying to find lots of images online lately. I ran across a huge collection of Warren Magazine material and old mystery comics. The stuff got me thinking of one of my old comic book artist heroes Bernie Wrightson and I decided to finish a post I had began when I started this website. Most people who have a peripheral knowledge of comics know that Wrightson was known chiefly, if not almost exclusively, for his horror comic work. Influenced by the styles of EC Comics artists like “Ghastley” Graham Ingels and Frank Frazetta he would begin doing unique covers and interiors for DC in the late 60’s then would go on to do some fine work for Warren Magazine’s Creepy and Eerie. I grew up on these stories and was thrilled to find some of them online (though the versions I have are only in Spanish) and want to share one of them here. I have another story to accompany a review of Dario Argento’s Jenifer film (for the Masters of Horror TV series) and will have that up soon.

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