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Director Lucio Fulci once claimed that “violence is Italian art.” While this sentiment was asserted repeatedly throughout the Italian cult cinema of the ‘60s and ‘70s through genre filmmakers like Bava, Fulci, Argento, and Martino — elevating cinematic violence to a ...

Perhaps the most famous Slovakian film ever made, at least on an international level, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos’s Obchod na korze (1965) aka The Shop on the High Street (also known as The Shop on the Main Street to ...

Jacinto Molina Álvarez aka Paul Naschy is one of those horror genre figures who is passionately beloved by fans — deservedly so, in my opinion — and remains, alongside Jess Franco, perhaps the most well-known and prolific figure of Spanish ...

The late ‘50s saw the first major boom of Italian genre cinema with the emergence of Italian Gothic horror — films about witches, vampires, and ghosts, set in cobweb-choked castles — but these titles by directors like Mario Bava, Riccardo ...

For my money, the late ‘90s and early ‘00s represents one of the most fascinating recent creative booms of genre cinema, especially where European filmmaking is concerned. French directors, in particular, began to blur the lines between horror, thriller, and ...

The wonderful Vinegar Syndrome has really been on a tear this year expanding their catalogue beyond erotica to include cult, horror, and even blaxploitation. Over the last few months, they’ve released a number of restored, Blu-ray editions of films starring ...

This week my Ken Russell series continues with a look at some of his short, music-themed episodes for the BBC’s Monitor series, which he contributed to from 1959 to 1965, during the early years of his career as a director. ...

The January 1919 death of socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is often read by postwar historians as a sort of turning point in the Weimar Republic, a symbolic line drawn in the sand between a possible Communist future in Germany and ...

In parts one and two of my exploration of Southern Gothic films, I examined this murky subgenre from its origins in the Pre-Code films of the ‘30s to its explosion in the ‘40s and ‘50s with adaptations of the work ...

Generally remembered for some of his later French co-productions like the The Double Life of Veronique (1991) and the Three Colors trilogy (1993-1994), Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski effectively made his name in the international arthouse market with a television series ...