Review: Devil’s Advocates – In The Mouth of Madness

By Michael Blyth, (Leighton Buzzard: Auteur Publishing, 2018. 124 pages). ISBN: 978-1911325-40-6 In The Mouth of Madness (1995),directed by John Carpenter, is one of his lesser known and lesser celebrated films. The Devil’s Advocates series seeks to bring previously ignored works of film fiction to the academic sphere and presents them in ways in which …

Review: Devil’s Advocates – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

By Lindsay Hallam, (Leighton Buzzard: Auteur Publishing, 2018. 128 pages). ISBN: 978-1-911325-64-2 In 1992, David Lynch unleashed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me upon the Cannes Film Festival and it was found wanting. Hallam’s text is part of a recent reassessment of the film, both in terms of its aesthetics and content, focusing in particular …

Review: Devil’s Advocates – Saw

By Benjamin Poole, (Leighton Buzzard: Auteur Publishing, 2014. 115 pages). ISBN: 9781906733568 In 1974 Angela Carter memorably proclaimed that we live in Gothic times. Fast forward 36 years to the release of Saw: The Final Chapter and Katy Hayes, reflecting on the appeal of the torture porn subgenre asserted that now ‘we live in torture-porn …