The Rabbitte Perspective

Pick of your Pumpkin... "Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world." - Shakespeare. All right, hello everyone and welcome to this Halloween special Blog Post that I am about to do. So basically, if you're a vivid reader of my Blog Posts, you'll obviously know that the general Posts that I put out on occasion heavily relate to me reviewing films or in other cases, at least talking about any particular aspect of film. Since it is Halloween today, I thought what better way to 'celebrate' Halloween, then to talk about and go through the films that I either normally watch around Halloween time, or at least films that scare the living soul out of me. What would be even better do than just listing my films, is to hear from YOU and what films you like or scare you the most. It honestly can be any film that you can think of; it doesn't necessarily have to be a film strictly related to

A sweet, surreal Gothic fable?... When you look across the board of the Gothic-ghoul films that have come and either flopped or graced the silver screen in the past 10 years or so, I don't think any can discredit the work that Guillermo Del Toro has done. While he hasn't shied away from the spotlight with big-budget hits such as Pacific Rim  and the Hellboy films, Del Toro's best works, for a lot of people, have always been the works that fit into that Horror centric ilk like Cronos , The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth ; filmic pieces that have all adopted an archaic but visual appeal that goes into great depth and detail and constructs their own world in an imaginative way. Indeed, Del Toro's latest offering in Crimson Peak  does offer that pristine quality when it comes to the production design and the visual imagery, but you can't help but question the narrative structure at times since it does tend to fragment itself with unnecessary cuts

A Royale without cheese?... Over the many years of narrative film history, there is no denying that the fictional characters who have been portrayed by some of the best actors to have existed, have been equally as important in making up a film as a Director constructed their own work. While there may be others who favour other fictional characters to go on their own list such as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver  to The Joker from The Dark Knight  and Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean  etc, I think I can speak for everyone in that the characters for my money are an integral part to a films success and recognition. One fictional character that I would imagine would be on their top list of characters is surely James Bond since the character and the array of films bring a lot of cinematic quality to the audiences' with the tense espionage tales that have glamorous ladies, cheesy villains and classy cars interwoven within it. What I think makes James Bond stand-out from a

A Mine-field of Violence and Fluidness.. I think it's fair to say that you don't normally see anime get the acclaims that it normally doesn't get but should do. Obviously in terms of the filming world, the films that Hayao Miyazaki has constructed for Studio Ghibli is the main example of how anime in the film industry has gone above and beyond in it's expectancy of appealing to all audiences around the world. Despite this however, you never ever really hear about Japanese Animated T.V shows take the spotlight which makes everyone start talking seriously about it which is disappointing to see. However, one title, which rightfully got it's recognition, with's it's narrative and thematic ideas that were executed through an animated style that very much goes back to it's routes in the Manga art direction, is the mad but thrilling entertainment of Attack on Titan . Not only does the actual concept of the story sound immensely crazy but exciting at