I am behind in my movie watching as always, so I don’t know about Crimson Peak yet, despite being a sucker for the Hiddelston charm. I suppose that a genre can be better overall but still have weak entries. Pastoral-horror and period-drama horror in general can be great, but shall remain equal to a skilled production…

I have only seen the original, but an 1800s re-telling seems interesting. Ginger Snaps 3 shall be on the watch list. I will avoid 2 like that drunk, or even a nest of angry hornets at noon.

the evil has t be justified in its own mind, minds, um, self awareness of celestial influence. However it exists. Evil for the sake of evil is dull. So yes I absolutely agree with what you’re saying. It is terrifying when people do what they feel is right but isn’t seen that way by others, with us as the audience…

That’s a good example. Imply, hint, use other ways to create the atmosphere instead of just showing something. I agree with your thought process here. Hand holding is what we do in the audience because we’re scared, not what the film makers need to do to tell us we should be scared.

Yes, bad stuff everywhere. Jump scares and gore dominate instead of true dread and confusion. I would love to see some good modern horror return. I think the original Saw captured the mystery and isolation well, even though there was plenty of shock and gore to go along with it.

We’re living in a horror movie every day. Billions of us in the technologically reliant world. Maybe this is why I like paper books for reading.

Modern-era scares are more suspense or thriller genres when technology comes along. Being watched, tracked, thwarted at every turn without knowing why...scary! Not having a signal to Instagram that wonderful shot from the top of the ridge while hiking...super scary for some! Not for me. Maybe I’ve watched too much…

Oversimplification is the starting point for a good discussion, and then it can grow complex from there. Maybe I don’t understand the technological horror, the body mods and the creepiness of that. It seems more thriller or suspense. My viewpoint, I suppose.

Horror plus period piece equals true scares. Modern horror movies seem so dull because the horror comes in the actions of the villainous character and not the mystery. We do live in a time where the real horror is that information can be found everywhere and technology is good at figuring out so much about anyone.

Out there on the YouTube most people should be able to find something called Fact or Fiction, a British program hosted by Tony Robinson, and thus view the episode on Robin Hood. If the ideas and evidence presented there were used to make a new Robin Hood film, mainly one that is set in the 14th century, it could be…

I don’t get the feel-good vibe from this. I’ll happily watch Beowulf and Grendel again so I can enjoy Stellan Skarsgård’s profanity about trolls. This has a ver silly-looking sword as well, worse than Uthred’s in The Last Kingdom.

I have heard some bad things about the Bastard Executioner, and I look forward to avoiding it for a looooong time. As for Matt, I would gladly buy a shirt that says “In Matt We Trust” because he does research, looks at context, and gets it right when so many others get it wrong.

I hope so, too. Political intrigue, battles, blood and gore, that’s fine but we need to add some smart things to shows. We can’t dumb t down to an action series. We’ll cross our fingers and eyes for some details on how the past made the future long before most people realise it happened.

Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria calls the Viking costuming the “biker look” and I agree. way too much leather, not enough wool, no gambesons, and of course, no spectacle helmets! It’s not like Game of Thrones filming took them all and left none for Ragnar and friends...

Vikings is a great show, though there are some costume issues in my opinion, and there’s a lack of helmets! They do have some lovely shields, but we need more goggle-style helmets. Can’t have everything I suppose. If the Templars series entertains me like Vikings has, then there will be reasons a-plenty for the happy…

If they contact the appropriate historical experts to get costumes,mprops and techniques correct, then I will be thrilled and sing the praises of this show. Too often designers get strange ideas.

I watched this trailer last week and it makes me cringe. Oi, white socks and sport sandals. No class, yeah. I suppose that’s the point, make him the chavie sort, we laugh at the low class goofball, he makes good in the end, and on we go. I’m not sure what my English relatives will think but I’ll ask during my…

Brilliant is the perfect word for it. :)

Yes, it’s all those things and it’s great! Canterbury is full of history on tiny levels most people ignore in favour of big battles and political intrigue, which is often full of bias. But we get all of these details of 14th Century English life, with Greek mythology as well as religious and commecial conflict framing…

I own the Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack for Legend, and it is wonderful. I would love to see the proper edit of the movie with the intended score, as I think it would be a much better version than the one I saw as a child, with Tangerine Dream and a jarring sequence of scenes.