Black Lagoon show #4: Hell, the house and the spiral
In the much-delayed fourth installment of the Black Lagoon podcast, we’re looking at three generations of horror films that have helped define Japanese cinema’s reputation for the unusual, the avant-garde and the downright bizarre, as represented by Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigoku (aka Hell, 1960), Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu (aka House, 1977), and Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki (aka Spiral, 2000). Read more
Black Lagoon show #3: Re-Made in Italy
In our third podcast, we take a look at three Italian films that were “inspired” by hugely successful Hollywood horror movies - Contamination (Luigi Cozzi’s fun take on Alien), The Last Shark (Enzo G Castellari’s Jaws clone) and Beyond The Door (Ovidio G Assonitis’s response to The Exorcist). All three directors take very different approaches to cashing in on genre blockbusters, and we’ll be discussing where they succeed and where they fail. Read more
Black Lagoon show #2: I Am Legend
After a long wait, the podcast is back! On the second show we look at the three film adaptations of the classic novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and I Am Legend. All three films show the different approaches that can be taken when adapting a book for the screen. Read more
Black Lagoon show #1: Fulci and the Gates of Hell
In the first Black Lagoon podcast, we’ll be discussing Lucio Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy - City of the Living Dead, The Beyond and The House By The Cemetery. Following the world-wide success of Zombie Flesheaters, Fulci tried to take the Italian zombie film into a completely new direction with these films, and we’ll be discussing how far he succeeded. Read more