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The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies London have yet another fascinating talk planned for next week, on Thursday, 18th May, hosted by John Cussans. The author of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie-Complex, Cussans’ talk Chimerical Optics: Haiti, Colonialism and ...

“When a black mountain appears above the clouds, a monster will arrive and try to destroy the world. The ancient prophecy is coming true.” Typically my essays for Diabolique are academic in tone, include plenty of historical research and cultural ...

Many of you know me as Diabolique’s Associate Editor, but I’m also excited to be the editor of an upcoming book focused on the career of French fantasy and horror filmmaker Jean Rollin, Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin. To be ...

Though ridiculously prolific director Takashi Miike is most often remembered for his gory horror films—such as Audition (1999) and Ichi the Killer (2001)—he’s made far weirder films throughout a career that has spanned nearly three decades and explored a range ...

From the early silent film serial of the ‘10s and ‘20s, the exoticism of Asian cultures—in particular, Asian women—has played a relatively prominent role in action films, thrillers, and even fantasies. Films like Louis Feulliade’s Tih Minh (1918), Daughter of ...

In some sense, director Peter Strickland has become regarded as a cult film director, thanks to films like Berberian Sound Studio (2012)—which follows a British sound engineer isolated in an Italian recording studio as he does sound effects for a ...

In my series on Italian director Fernando Di Leo, I began part one by examining his early career and two of his most beloved films, Milano calibro 9 (1972) and La mala ordina (1972), of his Milieu Trilogy; in part ...

“The whole city is full of madmen. It’s like a carnival shooting range.” —Umberto Lenzi’s Almost Human An icon of Italian cult cinema—particularly spaghetti westerns and crime films—Cuban-born actor Tomas Milian possessed a talent beyond his niche reputation. He regularly ...

A few days ago it was announced that Canadian small press publisher Spectacular Optical—responsible for 2014’s Kid Power! and 2015’s Satanic Panic: Pop Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, to which I was a contributor, and co-run by Kier-La Janisse of ...

I began this three-part Fernando Di Leo series a few weeks ago with a look at two of the first films in his poliziotteschi trilogy, the Milieu Trilogy: Milano calibro 9 (Caliber 9, 1972) and La mala ordina (The Italian ...