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Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

Since the birth of cinema in the late 1800s, the archiving and preservation of films has been a major problem. It is reported that 75% of all silent films have been completely lost and, while these occasionally find their way ...

The late 1960s were a tumultuous time. Worldwide protests were ignited in the wake of the May of ’68 protests; students and workers were calling for an end to capitalism and an end to tyranny. In the US, these protests ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

H.P. Lovecraft is a name nearly synonymous with horror and fantasy. The immense, fantastical worlds that H.P. spun from his vocabulary have only grown with time, inspiring countless works of art in his wake. Most recently, the late author has ...

The first time I came across Luther the Geek, I was around 15 years old. In an attempt to further my budding knowledge of genre cinema, I had just purchased Fangoria’s 101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen and I ...

For years William Friedkin maintained that, despite all other opinions, his 1973 film The Exorcist was not a horror movie. “I thought it was a film about the mystery of faith … but I didn’t set out to make a ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

Other than the schlocky but fun 2002 horror film by Eli Roth, cabin fever is best known as a “type of hysteria brought on by spending too much time indoors.” Along with seasonal depression, cabin fever is a feeling that ...

While the samurai film has its trappings as far back as the silent era, the genre received a major critical and populist push around and after WWII, when filmmakers like Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa began re-envisioning and expanding the ...