“Don’t you know? I adore violence.” Barbara Steele as Harriet / Belinda in An Angel for Satan   Great film genres never really die, they just get assimilated. By 1966, what we now call the “Golden Age” of Italian Gothic ...

“I wish the two of you to play the leading parts in my eternal theatre […] You will be forever on the stage” – Christopher Lee as Count Drago in Il castello dei morti vivi (1964)  Starring Christopher Lee, Il ...

*Contains spoilers* “You went to the extreme of murder, all for the sake of possessing me. It’s a pity that you did everything… for a body that’s dead. Well Kurt, look at that body, look well at the body that ...

THE INVISIBLE MAN At first sight, The Invisible Man does not appear to be as deeply and obviously saturated with the overriding shared obsessions of the Fin de Siècle period as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU Like The Time Machine, Wells’s 1896 romance The Island of Doctor Moreau is also deeply pervaded by the contemporaneous Fin de Siècle / Fin du Globe train of thought. The fact that it was met ...

The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor INTRODUCTION The term Fin de Siècle is more immediately suggestive of writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley than a figure such as H. G. Wells. The bulk of Wells’s prodigious oeuvre ...

*Contains spoilers* “Of all the melancholy themes, the one universally recognised by mankind as the saddest of all is the most obvious one: Death. And that most melancholy theme becomes the most poetic of all, when coupled with the theme ...

Constellations is the new line of quality SF film monographs from Auteur Press, standing proudly alongside their slightly better-known Devil’s Advocate horror film series. Released last year as part of the first wave of these, this one finds noted film ...

With Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960) opening the bloody floodgates of Italian export horror, Bava’s friend and former mentor, Riccardo Freda, responded with a horrific hit of his own; The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1962). Itself one of the best films ...

By 1969, Bram Stoker’s most celebrated creation had appeared in countless films, some loosely based on the novel from whence he came, some so wildly divergent that they almost beggar belief. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) and Dracula vs. ...