Joe Lipsett – Page 2 – All Things Ick

Celebrating Under Seen Zombie Film ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

September 16, 2024 Joe Lipsett Adaptation, Colm McCarthy, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Paddy Considine, Podcasts, Sennia Nanua, The Girl with All the Gifts, young adult horror, Zombie

Hungries Trace and I spent August discussing Paul Morrissey’s melodramatic Blood for Dracula (listen), Julia Ducournau’s body horror Titane (listen), and Stephen Herek’s family creature feature Critters (listen) before kicking off September with Tim Burton’s ode to weird, Beetlejuice (listen). For episode 299, we’ve hopped across the pond to tackle director Colm McCarthy‘s under seen contemporary zombie […]

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‘Hold Your Breath’ Review – Sarah Paulson Can’t Save a Predictable Frontier Tale [TIFF]

September 16, 2024 Joe Lipsett Alona Jane Robbins, Amiah Miller, annaleigh ashford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Hold Your Breath, Hulu, Karrie Crouse, Nathan Gariety, Reviews, Sarah Paulson, TIFF 2024, Will Joines

Hold Your Breath opens with a nightmare. It’s a recurring nightmare of Margaret Bellum’s (Sarah Paulson): every night she goes to sleep and finds herself caught in the middle of cruel Oklahoma dust storm. She’s quickly forced to the ground, choking. Then when she’s about to die, Margaret awakens, gasping for breath. Written by Karrie […]

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‘The Shrouds’ Review – David Cronenberg Plays His Greatest Hits [TIFF]

September 11, 2024 Joe Lipsett David Cronenberg, Diane Kruger, Elizabeth Saunders, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Dale, Movies, Reviews, Sandrine Holt, Steve Switzman, The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel

Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The […]

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‘Ick’ TIFF Review – Joseph Kahn Delivers An Entertaining, Uneven Horror Comedy

September 9, 2024 Joe Lipsett Brandon Routh, Dan Koontz, Harrison Cone, Jeff Fahey, Joseph Kahn, Melina Pauli Weissman, Mena Suvari, Peter Wong, Reviews, Samuel Laskey, TIFF 2024

You know a Joseph Kahn film when you see one. There’s an approach to style, narrative, and editing akin to pure adrenaline; it’s as though the filmmaker drank a bunch of coffee, ate a bunch of candy, and then immediately made a movie. Ick, Kahn’s first feature since 2017’s Bodies, is pure sugar/caffeine rush: when […]

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The “Weird” Appeal of Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

September 9, 2024 Joe Lipsett Alec Baldwin, Beetlejuice, Catherine O'Hara, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Michael Keaton, Podcasts, Winona Ryder

Live in this World After spending August discussing Paul Morrissey’s Udo Kier-starring Blood for Dracula (listen), Julia Ducournau’s Raw follow-up Titane (listen), and Stephen Herek’s comfort classic Critters (listen), we wrapped up the month with a look at Tim Burton‘s 1988 classic, Beetlejuice! In the film, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) are perfectly content […]

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‘Else’ TIFF Review – Worlds and Bodies Merge in French Virus Film

September 9, 2024 Joe Lipsett Alice Butaud, Edith Proust, Emma Sandona, Léo Lefèvre, Lika Minamoto, Matthieu Sampeur, Reviews, Thibault Emin, TIFF 2024

The term body horror evokes certain types of visuals and visceral responses. Famously associated with directors like David Cronenberg, body horror is used to generate gross-out visuals as easily as it advances the narrative (see: the way Coralie Fargeat uses bodies for her scathing feminist social commentary, The Substance). Writer/director Thibault Emin uses body horror […]

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‘Dead Talents Society’ TIFF Review – An Instant Horror Comedy Classic

September 9, 2024 Joe Lipsett Bai Bai, Chen Bolin, Eleven Yao, Gingle Wang, John Hsu, Reviews, Sandrine Pinna, TIFF 2024, Tsai Kun-Lin

In the cold open for Dead Talents Society, the new film by director John Hsu (2019’s Detention), a young woman enters hotel room 414. Bizarre events quickly add up, including a whole wall that is suddenly plastered with glamour pictures of a woman. Then the closet door creeps open and the woman from the picture […]

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‘Seeds’ Review – Indigenous Comedy Thriller Is Fun, But Inconsistent [TIFF]

September 6, 2024 Joe Lipsett Dallas Goldtooth, Dylan Cook, Indigenous, Kaniehtiio Horn, Meegwun Fairbrother, Reviews, TIFF 2024

Indigenous horror has become increasingly popular in recent years, particularly in Canada where efforts are being made to seek out, fund, and promote First Nation stories (see also: Slash/Back and the late Jeff Barnaby’s work like Blood Quantum and Rhymes for Young Ghouls). With Seeds, we can add Kaniehtiio Horn’s name to the list. The […]

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Lifetime’s ‘The Past Comes Knocking’ Takes Itself a Bit Too Seriously [Review]

September 5, 2024 Joe Lipsett Bella Chadwick, Brandon Villano, David Y. Chung, Geoffrey D. Calhoun, Karl E. Landler, Leanne Johnson, lifetime, Marem Hassler, Marlee Carpenter, Movies, Reviews, Stephen Blackwell, Tessa Briney

We’ve discussed several times in these Lifetime reviews that the mystery is often the most superfluous element. The films are very rarely trying to surprise or fool the audience. In fact, the reveal is often right there in the title (see: She’s Obsessed With My Husband). Much like Stepmom from Hell, however, co-writers Geoffrey D. […]

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‘The Perfect Couple’ Is Netflix’s Attempt to Do ‘The White Lotus’ [Review]

September 5, 2024 Joe Lipsett Billy Howle, Dakota Fanning, Donna Lynne Champlin, Elin Hilderbrand, Eve Hewson, Irina Dubova, Isabelle Adjani, Jack Reynor, Jenna Lamia, Liev Schreiber, Meghann Fahy, Michael Beach, Netflix, Nicole Kidman, Reviews, Sam Nivola, Susanne Bier, TV

The opening credits for The Perfect Couple are fun and cute. As Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals” plays, the cast of Netflix’s new limited series – from the police officers to the housekeeper to Nicole Kidman herself – perform a coordinated wedding dance on the beach. It’s the kind of clichéd bit one expects to see at […]

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Car Sex and Serial Killing in ‘Titane’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

August 26, 2024 Joe Lipsett Agathe Rousselle, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Julia Ducournau, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Vincent Lindon

Metal Baby August has been a wild ride so far. Between art house discussions of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (listen) and Paul Morrissey’s Blood for Dracula (listen), we squeezed in a look at screenlife sequel Unfriended: Dark Web (listen). Now we’re ready for more contemporary foreign content with Julia Ducournau‘s sophomore feature, Titane (2021). In the film, after […]

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‘Amityville Elevator’ Is an Allegory for the Entire “Franchise” [The Amityville IP]

August 19, 2024 Joe Lipsett Amityville, amityville elevator, Editorials, Nick Box, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” The last couple entries in this editorial series have examined two of the three titles released by executive producer, writer, and director Nick Box released the week […]

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The Mean Prescience of ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

August 12, 2024 Joe Lipsett Alexa Mansour, Andrew Lees, Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Connor Del Rio, Douglas Tait, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Screenlife, Stephanie Nogueras, Stephen Susco, Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web

Mateo After wrapping up July with a Jan de Bont double feature discussing the movie magic of Twister (listen) and the laundry list of problems with his 1999 remake of The Haunting (listen), we’re tackled our first Alejandro Jodorowsky film with Santa Sangre (listen). Now we’re back on American soil for our first Screenlife horror film on […]

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Lifetime’s ‘Stepmom from Hell’ Spoils the Reveal [Review]

August 8, 2024 Joe Lipsett Andrew Fultz, Boz Wells, Bri Ana Wagner, Corbin Timbrook, Daniel Kautz, Editorials, Elizabeth Snoderly, Hamish Briggs, Lexi Giovagnoli, lifetime, Lorenzo Lamas, Milli M, Nathanael Lirio, Shelby Janes

Spoilers are an odd beast for most Lifetime films. Few, if any, titles actually try to surprise audience with a killer reveal. More often than not there are twists, but the joy of watching these made-for-TV films is the journey to the big showdown. It’s frustrating then, that Stepmom from Hell fully spoils its own […]

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‘Amityville Job Interview’ Doesn’t Get the Job Done [The Amityville IP]

August 5, 2024 Joe Lipsett Amityville Horror, Chan Walrus, Editorials, Georgina Burford, Nick Box, Shawn C Phillips, Sihona Robbins, Strange Vibes, Stuart Fitzsimmons, The Amityville IP

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” As we discussed last time, executive producer, writer, and director Nick Box released three different Amityville films in a single week (April 13-20) in 2023. The first was […]

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