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As a writer who’s probably delivered one too many horror film seminars singing the praises of James Whale and his two Frankenstein efforts, it’s easy to forget that that director’s sublime, subversive brand of cinematic brilliance would have been completely ...

“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 ...

Lillian Gish in The Birth of a Nation (1915) Bowling Green State University recently announced its decision to remove the name of “Gish” from their campus theater, which had originally been designated to honor both Lillian Gish (1893-1993) and her ...

*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 ...

“Tell me how you want it. And that’s how we’ll play it” “Up From the Deep”-The Tubes In the wilds of the United States, in the middle-of-the-back-road small cities, the big towns, and even the little burgs, there’s always a ...

The musical does something that other genres cannot do: it marries music with human drama – and together, song and score can conceal truth or expose it. It can give voice to a character’s concerns or lie for them. This ...

While there are a few subgenres adjacent to the horror film that have become beloved over the years—such as nunsploitation, poliziotteschi, or women in prison films—one of the few holdouts that still seems strangely neglected is the German krimi. The ...

Serendipity. It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as, “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” It’s also a force that takes you through an unexpected back road that leads to some of the best and most ...

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 ...