Dear Reader, even though I’m someone who is frequently accused of being a hateful contrarian, there is a lot—really an embarrassing amount—of love in my heart. Sometimes this love might seem misguided, as in the case of my obsession with ...

On today, this most revered day, the great Dutch director Paul Verhoeven celebrates his 80th birthday and I, in turn, am celebrating his incredible, often misunderstood career. For a brief, golden period, Verhoeven left the Netherlands and came to work ...

One of Italian cult cinema’s most prolific directors, the wonderful Umberto Lenzi dabbled in many horror and exploitation genres, and is generally remembered for gory cannibal films like Eaten Alive! (1980) and Cannibal Ferox (1981), or poliziotteschi classics like Almost ...

For my money, director Jess Franco is the best and most prolific adapter of what I would call Sadeian cinema; he did borrow directly from the Marquis de Sade’s texts from time to time, but even when his loose plots ...

This is the first entry in Diabolique’s “In Conversation” column, where two or more writers informally—and often personally—discuss cinema, art, and current contentious issues.  Samm Deighan: Recently I was having a conversation with a friend and the subject of Cronenberg’s ...

Though Jean-Pierre Melville directed a few early films set during WWII—such as his pensive debut, Le silence de mer (1949), about a Nazi soldier lodging in the country home of a reticent French family, and Léon Morin, prêtre (1961), about ...

“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.” —Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Though Catherine Deneuve was an established force in European cinema by Luis ...

Greatest director of all time (fight me) Rainer Werner Fassbinder covered a range of genres throughout his absurdly prolific career, from science fiction and western to crime film and the melodrama he loved so much, but his overarching theme was ...

This Tuesday, April 10th at Film Noir Cinema, Miskatonic University will continue its inspiring series of lectures surrounding cult film and literature with a talk from Rémy Bennett, a New York-based filmmaker, writer, and curator—and occasional Diabolique contributor. Read her ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...