68 thousand bucks. One sex-drunk mark. Looks like an easy enough score, but it never is. Just try telling that to the usual self-immolating money-grubbers looking for get-rich-shortcuts in the exploitation-noir rampage, 68 Kill. Matthew Gray Gubler plays Chip, ...
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Writer-director Aaron Burns’ film Madre explores the lonely struggles and paranoia of a woman dealing with motherhood on two fronts: Diana (Daniela Ramirez) is pregnant and, through her husband’s neglect—left to be a single parent raising her autistic son (Mattias ...
Read More »Don’t Kill It (2016): Interview with Kristina Klebe
Kristina Klebe (Tales of Halloween, 2015) sat down with Diabolique to talk about Mike Mendez’s (Big Ass Spider!, 2013) new horror/thriller Don’t Kill It (2016)—now available streaming and on VOD. Klebe plays Evelyn Pierce, an FBI agent with an angelic background, ...
Read More »Interview: Director Gaspar Noé on Love (2015)
Damning issues are presented in Love (2015), Gaspar Noé’s latest film. As the writer-director has stated, though, this is life. And life is life: cheating, lying, self-destruction, vicious fights, and habitual drug use are so common in relationships he has observed—particularly ...
Read More »Phantasm: Ravager (2016) – Interview with Don Coscarelli and David Hartman
It is the holidays, when little silver balls are hanging from trees only to hunt you down and drain you of your very ruby essence. The Tall Man leaves all us little boils and ghouls gifts tucked away in local mausoleums ...
Read More »Fantastic Fest: An Interview with The Eyes of My Mother’s Nicolas Pesce
An elegant Gothic tale of innocent depravity, shot in carefully-composed brooding shades of gray, The Eyes of My Mother (2016) charts the twisted coming-of-age of Francisca (Kika Magalhaes), a solitary young woman raised on a farm by her parents (Diana Agostini ...
Read More »No Plastic: Captain Sensible on The Damned at Forty
The Damned are 40 this year and still punk as fuck. Or goth as fuck. Or something in between that was never quiet the Ramones or Bauhaus, but Dave Vanian dressed like a vampire and Captain Sensible wore gonzo plaid. ...
Read More »Tall Stories: In Conversation with Phantasm’s Don Coscarelli, Kathy Lester & Paul Pepperman
The ball is back! Because there can never be enough Phantasm, earlier this year (courtesy of SXSW) Diabolique’s Heather Buckley chatted to Writer/Producer/Director Don Coscarelli, Actress Kathy Lester and Producer Paul Pepperman, about everything from the film’s legacy, the 4K ...
Read More »Interview: Executive Producer of The Walking Dead Gale Anne Hurd on Making the Impossible Real
Gale Anne Hurd. Executive Producer of The Walking Dead. Fear of the Living Dead. Mentored by Roger Corman and Debra Hill. She co-wrote The Terminator. She produced your favorite features: Aliens, The Abyss, Raising Caine and Punisher: Warzone; Tremors. She ...
Read More »Interview: Joe Dante. Monster Kid. Jersey Guy
In perfect neighborhood, the grass is forever green under the morning sky. Kids play until dusk and go home for supper and TV. They ride bikes in the summer and in the winter they build snowmen, with black eyes and ...
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