Mention the term ‘one person band’ and you might fill your head with images of some old German guy with an accordian and tuba strapped to his body, castanets stapled to his pant legs, all the while playing a battered acoustic guitar and occasionally chanting something. Well, banish that mental picture to the depths […]
INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR JENNIFER KENT DISCUSSES HER GENRE-DEFYING HORROR FLICK ‘THE BABADOOK’
When is a horror movie not a horror movie? When it’s The Babadook, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s refined and thoroughly stunning feature debut. “The horror is the byproduct of the story, not the other way around,” says Kent, over the phone. “That was my goal, to explore the idea of facing difficulties, and how important […]
