A previously unpublished interview with composer Jeff Grace, plus soundtrack reviews of Grace’s I Sell the Dead, and House of the Devil / I Can See You (all from MovieScore Media), plus a DVD review of I Can See You (Kino)…
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The following is an unpublished interview from 2009 & 2010 with composer Jeff Grace discussing his scores for Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell the Dead and Ti West’s The House of the Devil. . . Mark R. Hasan: I Sell The Dead began as a short film, right? […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / H . Rating: Very Good Label: MovieScore Media (Sweden)/ Released: November 17, 2009 Tracks & Album Length: 26 / (64:28) . Special Notes: Available as a MP3 downloadable album and on CD. . Composer: Jeff Grace . . Review: Jeff Grace’s quietly elegant House of the Devil is a perfect match for […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / I . Rating: Excellent Label: MovieScore Media (Sweden) / Released: July 13, 2010 Tracks & Album Length: 18 tracks / (44:24) . Special Notes: Available on CD and as a digital album. . Composer: Jeff Grace . . Review: Although Jeff Grace has scored a number of horror films, the black comedic style […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The following conversation occurred during the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, when Jeff Grace was in town to attend and support the premiere of Larry Fessenden latest horror film, The Last Winter, which Grace co-composed with Anton Sanko. Much like the old studio system, which […]
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
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