Posts Tagged ‘Juraj Herz’
Darkness visible?
This looks promising - Juraj Herz, director of the supremely culty The Cremator (Spalovač Mrtvol, 1968), is finally returning to his favourite genre with a new horror film called Darkness (Tma), scheduled for completion next year. Here's a short interview that Herz gave to Czech newspaper Mláda fronta DNES, though he doesn't seem to be giving [...]
The Cremator
Last Thursday, I was asked to introduce a student screening of Juraj Herz's gleefully macabre 1968 film The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol), having already written about Second Run's DVD for Sight & Sound (the distributor helpfully provides a facsimile here). This is roughly how it went: I've been asked to introduce The Cremator, partly because I [...]