Audiences of the late 1980s seeking a modern, fresh vampire flick had Vampire’s Kiss (1988) to choose from, to which they were either pleasantly surprised or confused and perturbed. This early Nicolas Cage-starring vehicle put out by HBO turns out ...

The beginning of Dario Argento’s 1985 film Phenomena is absolutely beautiful, a quality that does not diminish with the quick onset of cinematic violence. Perhaps fifteen years into the director’s career some spectators began to get tired of auteur-ish repetition, ...

Dario Argento certainly isn’t the creator of giallo, as he is occasionally referred to, but his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) did thicken and solidify a number of tropes and notions about what the cycle of ...

Sometimes gialli go beyond their already manic nature, into a head space–or body space–beyond their original means. This includes instances where these lurid slices of excess and abjection overlap with softcore or hardcore depictions of sex on screen. Samm Deighan ...

Aldo Lado’s directorial debut Short Night of Glass Dolls is a bleak and brilliant foray into giallo territory that doesn’t seem to get as much love as many of the better-known titles of the early 1970s. This time we are ...

Sergio Martino’s 1971 picture The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh is quite possibly my favorite giallo film. While my colleague Kat Ellinger started off 31 Days of Gialloween considering one of her favorites, a similar film by the same director ...

In 1969 a legit, Italian-produced giallo that takes place in San Francisco graced the screen, and the product is as curious as the situation sounds. Before Lucio Fulci went on to become one of the most well known film directors ...

Molly (2018), the new video release from Artsploitation Films, just might be the highly choreographed, heavily computer-generated slice of Dutch, post-apocalyptic, girl-power cinema you didn’t know you wanted until now. Not to be confused with Mandy (2018), Thelma (2017), Victoria ...

The new Network release of Who Killed Teddy Bear conjures up one question aside from the film’s title–why isn’t this movie better known? About Norah (Juliet Prowse), a woman in New York City who is receiving obscene phone calls from ...

*This article contains spoilers* There is something downright uncanny about Mario Bava’s masterpiece of 1963, The Whip and The Body. It is deeply ingrained in the gothic storytelling tradition, while feeling completely refreshing at the same time. Bava’s filmography is ...