Introduction and Early Years One of the great unsung artists of cinema, Nicholas Musuraca was one of the defining architects of the film noir style, painting masterful mood-pictures of menace and fear with light, shadows, and darkness.   Musuraca was born ...

Infused with the cool-neon stylings of Thief (1981) and Miami Vice (TV, 1984-1990), Manhunter (1986) is filmmaker Michael Mann’s neo-noir adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon (1981). Though Jonathan Demme infused his film of Harris’ subsequent book The Silence ...

It was way back in 1969 that the seed that was to grow into An American Werewolf in London was planted like a bulb of garlic. Young John Landis, in Yugoslavia as a production assistant on the comic war film ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber. Region A.  Feature: 87 mins. Aspect ratio 1.66:1.  The Movie There’s more to the legend than meets the throat! (Original poster tagline.) Zoltan – Hound of Dracula (1977) begins with the uncovering of a tomb by ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber. Region A.  Feature: 93 mins. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.  The Movie The Italian peplum films, also known as sword and the sandal subgenre, were cut-price historical epics made from 1958 to 1965. The seeds of this highly ...

Disc Details Arrow Video, 2019. Region A.Feature: 94 mins. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.  The Movie After Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971), director Aldo Lado returned to the giallo and delivered one of the genre’s most interesting fims, Who Saw ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A.  Feature:  Black and white, 103 mins. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.  The Movie Anthology horror films, otherwise known as portmanteau, contain several short films linked by a narrative framing device. It is a popular format ...

With its deep layers of history, folklore, and fable that lie just beneath the surface of every building and landscape, Great Britain is a haunted land. As a child born and raised in south Wales I became deeply entranced by ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A. Feature:  131 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1.  The Movie Back in 1991, Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards, becoming the rare genre piece to take Best Picture, ...

Disc Details Arrow, 2019. Region A. Feature:  96 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1. The Movie An Italian-French-German co-production, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (Italian title: L’iguana dalla lingua di fuoco) is a giallo from the heyday of the genre. ...