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  Marat/Sade (Peter Brooks, 1967) is a play within a film, showing the inmates of an asylum performing Sade’s (Patrick Magee) play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under ...

The Bat People is a quintessential American International Pictures release in that it is an out and proud monster movie that carries on what the company delivered from the beginning. However, because the film is a product of the seventies ...

The body count horror film is an age-old institution, but it has to be understood that way before films such as Halloween (1978) established this prototype as a “go-to” and provided a sturdy blueprint for films to follow, pre-code outings ...

“A writer of books with hope on every page, or the most vicious butcher of his age…” Marat/Sade, originally a play (1963) written by Peter Weiss that was later turned into a film (1967) directed by Peter Brook, is a ...

Recently Diabolique has started a new season that pays attention to the stifling of creativity, information, and political beliefs that are currently under attack by forces on both the right and left. Sometimes cinema and art can make for an ...

Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) is one of the most original and conceptually mind-bending pieces of 1960s American cinema, produced at a time when the psychedelia craze – both on the streets and on the ...

Long, lazy, hot summer days in a small Australian coastal town didn’t offer a young girl much more than the lifestyle depicted in the coming-of-age classic Puberty Blues (1981). I escaped head first into movies at a very early age, back when ...

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 ...

In 1931, in a sea of mist and eerie silence Dracula, the first of Universal Studio’s classic monster series haunted the silver screen. It was at the end of cinema’s transitional period from the silent era into the age of ...

Violence and abjection are often–or should I say constantly–co-mingled with sexuality in the work of the Marquis de Sade. After all, sadism usually implies a specific sexual gratification that goes hand in hand with cruelty and someone else’s pain. Although ...