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 ...

Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) is one of the most original and conceptually mind-bending pieces of 1960s American cinema, produced at a time when the psychedelia craze – both on the streets and on the ...

Back when I was a kid first discovering my intense love for all manner of celluloid horror and fantasy, one of the best Christmas presents that I received from one of my older brothers was a thin but large-format paperback ...

While the original Creature from the Black Lagoon (1953) is a bona-fide cinema classic that introduced us to one of the most beautifully-designed and memorable of all movie monsters, in the form of the Amazonian Gillman, it is the last ...