It occurred to me that after The Andromeda Strainand The Satan Bughad already cropped up on the blog as examples of truly scary movies, it might be interesting to work out what the scariest might be. Anyone got any further suggestions? I’m sure The Exorcist will be in there somewhere, but Phase IV – the one with the ants – has got to be in there (I was minded of it by Marie’s current problems).
Directed by Saul Bass and featuring some stunning micro-photography of real insects, it asks the question: “What if ants suddenly became intelligent, stopped fighting each other and decided to gang up on us for their own sinister purposes?” Non-stop scary and very weird.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
