I was lucky to interview writer-director-genius Larry Cohen for my book, Monster Movies, in 2007. He was one helluva interviewee. He talked about getting fired from I, The Jury and shooting Q – The Winged Serpent instead. He compared It’s ...

Originally published by Darryl Mayeski in Screem Magazine – www.screemag.com. “It’s a lost film now. You’ll never see it the way I wanted you to. Never.”Ken Russell, Total Sci-Fi interview, 2010 Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) was a film brought to ...

The first Hollywood scandal occurred in 1921 at a party at a San Francisco hotel. It involved Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, the silent screen star exulted as the first actor to sign a million-dollar contract (and that was a million dollars ...

On 17th March 2018, Cinemaniacs film collective in Melbourne screened John Frankenheimer’s underrated eco-monster movie, Prophecy (1979), as the second film in its ‘Now I Have Hate: Prejudice in Film’ 2018 season. While monthly screenings are a mainstay on the ...

Legend of stage and screen Stacy Keach has 15 minutes to talk. Factor in the foul-ups of connecting via an international operator and that window, sadly, reduces to 10. Yet still, the fact that someone of Keach’s stature and schedule ...

She pursed together plump, bee stung Angelina Jolie lips before Ms Jolie was even a sparkle in Jon Voight’s eye. Her own lovely large eyes – rounded with permanent surprise – came framed with ramrod straight eyebrows that point up ...

To be asked to interview Australian director Jamie Blanks upon Via Vision’s release of the Urban Legend trilogy Blu-ray box set was serendipitous for this correspondent, almost 30 years in the making. In the early ‘90s, as part of Monash ...

It has been 15 years between drinks but, as of the end of March this year, Gina Philips just wrapped shooting on what marks her return to the horror franchise that gained her legions of fans, Jeepers Creepers (2001). Diabolique ...

“What is most monstrous in this film is heteronormativity… This whole hazing business… it’s rape culture writ large and is truly monstrous.” Film commentator Cerise Howard The so-called ‘male gaze’ has dominated horror cinema, creating a screen culture of scream ...