Max Weinstein: Editor-in-Chief The Best and the Worst Genre Films of 2014 Best 1. The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent)  The Babadook has universal resonance, and its tropes, style, and monster are timeless. That writer-director Jennifer Kent’s film is hands down the ...

– Following the fiasco that was the Nightbreed production, Clive Barker, five years older and wiser, approached his next feature with a different perspective. He was well aware that his penchant for not only dark and twisted imagery but also ...

There is a confidence in Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night—notable for being the first Iranian Vampire-Western—, that defies what we have come to know of directorial confidence. While A Girl Walks Home Alone ...

Since its release, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 surrealist-political-thriller The Conformist has been somewhat of a talking point among diverse circles. Upon screening at the New York Film Festivals, critics were immediately taken by what they saw as Bertolucci’s first commercial film—a ...

Immediately following its world premiere at Sundance this year, The Babadook became the horror buzz-film of the year. Unlike other buzz topics, however, The Babadook’s steam never slowed; as the weeks turned to months, consecutive reviews and social media praise ...

While Horror cinema can safely be said to have originated in Europe with Méliès’s Le Manoir du Diable, Paul Wegener’s Der Golem, FW Murnau’s Nosferatu, and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari—among a few other remnants of early cinema—, it ...

It is a not-so-little-known fact that exploitation cinema is enamored with Nazis. Why? Perhaps because they represent one of the greatest evils ever known to man. Maybe it is because they represent a real form of darkness, darkness that even the ...

“They Couldn’t Leave Dead Enough Alone,” is perhaps either a genius and self-conscious effort on the filmmakers part to mock their own task of unearthing the Pumpkinhead character, or one of the most ill-conceived taglines in cinematic history, and it ...

In 1987—one year before Child’s Play, two before Puppet Master, and 5 before Charles Band again resorted to killer toys with Demonic Toys—Stuart Gordon’s Dolls became the first film to capitalize on the idea of a horror film where the ...

In light of our forthcoming issues, Medical Horror, The Doctor and the Devils release could not have come at a better time. The 1985 film directed by Freddie Francis takes heed with issues surrounding ethics in early 19th century medical ...