The 40s and 50s were particularly cynical times for filmmaker Billy Wilder, as far as his films went at least. Other than that he was riding high, making several of his best features during this period; starting out with his ...

There’s been much recent debate over why we shouldn’t be watching the films of Roman Polanski. We have recently published a couple of articles here, at Diabolique, arguing for why we need to separate the artist from the art. I ...

Cream corn and pizza, a record, a journal, a letter: fragments of a life lived. These are the pieces with which a set of young boys are left to put the Lisbon girls, five young women who inexplicably take their ...

No holiday would be complete without a seasonal slasher, or five. When it comes to the crème de la crème of this particular little subgenre I very much doubt anyone is going to disagree with me when I declare that ...

As it’s the first of International Halloween Month, or “October” to non-believers and plebs, it’s that time again folks: gather round, and let’s crack out the Silver Shamrock. I used to think I was alone in my unadulterated rabid love ...

“People take my picture every day. So my picture’s been taken millions of times. And every time they take my picture there’s a little less of me left. So what will be left of me at the end?” — Polly, ...

There are slashers, and then there is Pieces. I am going to begin with a confession. I once wrote an article on underrated slashers for a mainstream genre magazine solely so I could promote the idea that you haven’t seen ...

In the field of classic Gothic cinema the Italians really take some beating when it comes to evoking visual beauty from perverse themes. In contrast to classic British Gothic, which blossomed from stagey Gainsborough drama and a subtle sense of ...

When L’assassino’s (1961) protagonist, Alfredo Martelli (Marcello Mastroianni), declares “I am not a perfect man,” you believe him. His girlfriend is dead, he has been accused of killing her. During the murder investigation Martelli is forced to face up to ...

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies London are all set to put on another amazing talk this week (Thursday 16th February, 2017), this time hosted by Asian genre expert Jasper Sharp. Sharp’s talk Lost Treasures of Japanese Genre Filmmaking promises to provide ...