Made for TV horror movies from the seventies have an undeniably distinct charm. I mean who can forget the sleek sinister tension that builds from story to story in the wonderful Karen Black vehicle TRILOGY OF TERROR (1975), or the ...

There is some strange common notion spread around general film criticism and movie fandom as well as being deeply rooted inside the “horror community”, that the teens (or at least the twenty-somethings playing teens) and the young adults (usually prescribed ...

Much-loved and much-discussed, The Exorcist (1973) undeniably remains one of cinema’s most treasured films. Not only one of the most successful motion pictures ever made and a classic of the horror genre, this demonic chiller also helped usher in a ...

A majority of ecological disaster films and natural horror movies depicted nature’s attack (either inexplicable or caused by man in some way) as a direct linear attack; in other words, nature targets humankind and humankind has to defend itself from ...

Something that I have always wholeheartedly embraced in the realm of film criticism and the work of film preservation in the guise of documentary filmmaking, is the ability of some writers and documentarians to give a voice to both those ...

Genre spoofs can go either three ways – they can work well and remain faithful to the genre or subgenre they are paying tribute to and also be a successful comedy; on the other hand they can fail at doing ...

The entire history of cinematic (and theatrical) adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal classic of Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous counterpart Mr. Hyde is a vast and varied one and something that often gets overlooked when movie monsters are discussed ...

In Disney’s Pinocchio, an absolute masterpiece of animation and storytelling, one of the most profound central themes that sits as the thematic crux is the complicated notion of “doing the right thing” and always letting your conscience be your guide. ...

Set against the backdrop of mid-west America during the late 1800s, in a small halcyon town that is magically depicted as shadowy and a host to an enumeration of deep rooted secrecy, Albert Band’s Face of Fire (1959) is a ...

“I have six fingers see? And two heads! I’m a freak!” Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine)   Based on Lillian Hellman’s controversial play about a child’s lie destroying the lives of “decent people”, William Wyler’s The Children’s Hour (1961)  is quite ...