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There’s nothing the least bit ambiguous about Trigger, Jr., a 1950 Western starring the legendary cowboy crooner Roy Rogers. Released by Republic Pictures, this musical matinee is a swift, 68-minute jaunt through the lighter side of the wild west, where ...

The allure of the amusement park, carnival or funfair is twofold—the gaudy, exaggerated colours and characters are tainted with an unsettling creepiness—and this is the reason so many examples of classic and cult horror cinema have purchased a ticket to ...

Films, like music, are of a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...

Through the decades, anthology series have came and went with varying degrees of success. Many are generally forgotten, either by being so short-lived and/or failing to generate viewership, like ABC’s The Darkroom (1981), which ran a mere seven episodes. But ...

Having broken into direction with the Y is for Youth segment of ABCs of Death (2014) followed by the sci-fi horror short Thorn (2015), Vampire Clay marks the feature-length debut of Soichi Umezawa as both a writer and director. Prior to ...

Just a few months prior to the debut of The Cosby Show, which allowed NBC to crawl out from under their ratings rock in the fall of 1984, there was another run for viewership gold held during the 1983-84 season. ...

Cream corn and pizza, a record, a journal, a letter: fragments of a life lived. These are the pieces with which a set of young boys are left to put the Lisbon girls, five young women who inexplicably take their ...

The rave culture that peaked in the early nineties is fertile ground for slasher movies. The plentiful drugs, the casual sex, and the ridiculous clothes all offer more than enough bait for even the most discerning homicidal maniac. Without going ...

There are many criticisms of the slasher movie – dubious treatment of female characters, a focus on gore over narrative substance, a general air of improbability stretched to breaking point – but most often it is that they are all ...

The Psychopath was completely unknown to me, but most of the Amicus titles are. Their catalogue has been a huge blind spot for me as a horror viewer, mostly because they weren’t as widely available as Hammer films. The Psychopath ...