Made during a somewhat maligned period in the ‘40s, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case is one of his lesser seen films, which is a shame as it has plenty to offer fans of his more classic titles about obsession, crime, ...

Top Sensation (1969), also known as The Seducers, and Swinging Young Seductresses is the first of only two films directed by Ottavio Alessi – the other being the Italian black comedy What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964), itself a ...

To paraphrase Heraclitus, “One cannot step twice into the same Takashi Miike film.” The Japanese director’s “maddeningly diverse” output shifts gleefully between genres — often within the same film — and ensures that his audiences will never grow bored. Yet ...

There are slashers, and then there is Pieces. I am going to begin with a confession. I once wrote an article on underrated slashers for a mainstream genre magazine solely so I could promote the idea that you haven’t seen ...

La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, 1971) is the first in a duo of gialli films from director Emilio Miraglia, the second being La dama rossa uccide sette volte (The Red Queen ...

Emilio Miraglia was not a prolific filmmaker, having directed just six titles despite working on a number of films as an assistant or second unit director. La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, ...

Caltiki – il mostro immortale (Caltiki – The Immortal Monster, 1959) is known among cult circles for its dual directorial influence; though officially recognized as a film by Riccardo Freda, cinematographer Mario Bava filled Freda’s sizeable shoes when he left ...

“I found myself lying down in the apartment of my dead mother… [I] remembered that two years before I participated in an orgy in my mother’s absence, exactly in her room and in her bed which was now supporting her ...

Back in the early 80s, when I was in Junior High, there was a Boston institution called The Creature Double Feature—a Saturday afternoon double feature of classic horror films, on a local TV channel, through which many a young person ...

If you are stuck for something to watch this Christmas you won’t go far wrong with Václav Vorlícek’s delightful Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku, 1973). The film has just been released in time for the holidays, in ...