Right from the urgent Main Title with its twirling brass and an unwavering sense of urgency, It! Just grabs the listener the way most classic B-movies were supposed to: hard, fast, and keeping the audience hypnotized and hungry for blood when nothing was happening (and maybe didn’t)…
Reviews of Hours (2013), Paul Walker’s third-last film, released on DVD by Lions Gate, plus Benjamin Wallfisch’s score on CD from Varese Sarabande.
After writing the scripts for the franchise reboots A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Thing (2011), plus Final Destination 5 (2011), Eric Heisserer earned a crack at directing, and his debut is an economical, cleverly produced drama that’s also part disaster film, albeit scaled down to what a singular character sees from inside an abandoned hospital…
In a film where almost the entire drama occurs inside an abandoned hospital, Benjamin Wallfisch (Dear Wendy, Hammer of the Gods) adds both scope and subtext using a driving rhythm and recurring fragments of a gentle main theme, often played on piano or accentuated with delicate woorwinds…
New Look! New Plans! And new reviews of two Sexploitation flicks from One 7 Movies: Brutalization / aka Because of the Cats, based on the second Van der Valk novel by Nicholas Freeling (1973) + Erotic Blackmail / aka Le corps a ses raisons (1974).
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