The early-seventies were an interesting and pivotal time for gender identity and reinforcement. While the women’s liberation movement was in full-throttle and dominating the news headlines (along with the music charts, thanks to Helen Reddy’s anthemic 1972 battle cry “I ...

Bare breasts – of the female variety – was considered an almost obligatory part of 1970s Australian cinema, particularly of the independent or exploitation variety. Even if it was just a fleeting glimpse, female nudity was always highlighted in a ...

Closing in on nearly fifty years after the event, the dark enigma of Charles Manson (1934 – 2017) and the horror that was the Tate-LaBianca murders continue to fascinate and haunt us in a way that very few crimes before ...

Growing up in Australia as a horror-loving kid in the late-70s, few things fed my imagination and excitement quite like that feeling when the Thursday newspapers arrived. Thursday was the day when the cinemas nationwide would update their programming so ...

As one of the most prominent American producers and distributors of exploitation cinema of the 1960s & 70s, the name Harry Novak (1928 – 2014) should be familiar to anyone with an affinity for grindhouse and drive-in cinema from that ...

Filmed in 1976 under the title Sardu: Master of the Screaming Virgins but initially released under the very apt name of The Incredible Torture Show, Bloodsucking Freaks was something of a rite of passage for most young horror fans who ...

Criminally undervalued by many people when discussing science fiction and horror cinema produced by Universal Studios throughout the 1950s, The Monolith Monsters (1957) would have to rate as one of the true eclectic genre gems from that wondrous decade. True, ...

First released in February of 1979, The Warriors was based on a 1965 novel of the same name, authored by American Sol Yurick (1925–2013). Written when he was 40 years old, The Warriors was Yurick’s first published novel and interwove ...

On Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (held at the Horse Hospital in London), Ian Cooper will be holding a class entitled No Sense Makes Sense: Gurus, Cults, Murder and Movies. Examining the cinematic depictions ...

Between 1976 and 1991, Marneen Fields was one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stuntwomen, being dubbed “Hollywood’s Original Fall Girl” and awarded a Fall Girl license plate by J. P. Bill Catching and the Stuntmen’s Association for performing dangerous and daring ...