During the 1940s, prolific Hollywood screenwriter Lillie Hayward would power the decade with rich and compelling films that varied in theme and tone. From shadowy and complex Westerns such as Blood on the Moon (1948), to introducing new dimensions to ...

Donna McRae is lovingly devoted to animals and animal welfare. Knowing her personally, I am in constant awe of her passionate and well-informed stance on the treatment of animals across the globe; whether it be the hushed abuse of donkeys ...

The promise of the American dream is a dead-end billboard in Michael Curtiz’s significantly cynical and bittersweet musical My Dream Is Yours (1949), a film thematically concerned with fabricated aspects of artistic integrity, sacrifice, jealousy and the flighty complexities of ...

The harsh conditions of a frosty windswept Canadian wilderness are more than just a setting in Raoul Walsh’s Northern Pursuit (1943). Instead, this landscape that serves to be a point made between Europe and North America for all the wrong ...

The musical does something that other genres cannot do: it marries music with human drama – and together, song and score can conceal truth or expose it. It can give voice to a character’s concerns or lie for them. This ...

Michael Winner’s Scream For Help (1984) is a thoroughly enjoyable – as well as nutsy – hybrid of a Nancy Drew style mystery, a psycho-thriller that has gas lighting on the agenda and a contemporary slasher (which were all the ...

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 ...