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Since seeing the films of Maya Deren 17 years ago, I have continuously seen viewers fall in love with her screen presence with an immediacy that few other actors or filmmakers have. I may have met a few stoned college ...

Quite early in his career, Tobe Hooper became a formidable director with the success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. There are some folks who dislike this film for whatever reason, but it has been championed by enough ...

David Cronenberg’s early feature Rabid (1977) has a 40th anniversary this year. It is hard to believe that his unique and influential style of body horror has been unleashed on the world for that long. Rabid comes after the similarly themed ...

The late Seijun Suzuki will be remembered as one of the most delirious, feral Japanese filmmakers of all time, not necessarily because of his entire cinematic output, but because of a few specific films that infuse noir with strains of ...

It is quite odd to be writing this, but Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. This shouldn’t have happened for a number of reasons such as, his loss of the popular vote, confirmed Russian interference in ...

There are few movies I find appealing about a bored character milling about their home, alone, cooking, cleaning, watching television… Who wants to watch someone watching television? Yet, Marco Ferreri’s Dillinger è morto/Dillinger is Dead (1969) is a film that ...

Within the past few years it has become undeniable that witches and witchcraft are in fashion, be it in film, television or culture at large (full disclosure: this author has even made a short that falls in the ‘witchsploitation’ sub-genre). ...

Horror, more than any other cinematic genre has the ability to subvert normative structures of culture, thought and fantasy. It can be used to reinforce conservative values, but filmmakers can also twist the genre’s elements of visceral shock and uncanny ...

“I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can’t—you can’t do that.” – Walken It is completely unnecessary to point out ...

In The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, the women characters of Edwige and Barbara can be psychoanalytically condensed and composited in very much the same way as the male characters. As a correlative to “Dan Kristensen’s” fear, ineptitude and ...