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Banshee Chapter (2013)
Decent horror
This is a decent horror movie with a couple of good jolts but is possibly more interesting for a couple of the themes it employs. One relates to the legend of 'Numbers Stations' and the paranoid/conspiracy ideas they generate, in this case the transmission of a signal in the form of a rather chilling children's tune which may turn people who have taken a certain drug into 'human tuning forks'. Interestingly this same idea was also employed in a British radio play called 'Fugue State' which is well worth a listen. The second theme appears to be a fictionalized and surprisingly sympathetic biography of writer Hunter S Thompson and the film makes use of some of the idle fantasies that pop up in his writing such as the extraction of adrenochrome from the living human brain..
The Undead (1957)
Witty
A clever, sly and witty film disguised as a B movie. I assume its low rating is due to the fact that its rarely seen