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As a writer, William Peter Blatty’s most well-known novel is The Exorcist, released in 1971.  He would also win an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay of the novel two years later, and that film remains, to this day, the ...

1974 was a banner year for vigilante fantasies. Whether this was due to a rising crime rate in the United States, the establishment’s fear of a younger generation, or a bitter desire to witness any kind of retribution for the ...

While many genre cinema and cult movie fans are familiar with the wealth of titles coming out of European countries like France, Italy, and Spain, Greece is certainly one of the more neglected cinematic locales on the continent. But thanks ...

THE FILM Going into Bride of Re-Animator, director Brian Yuzna had previously made a polarizing first impression with his debut feature Society.  That film is now regarded as a cult classic, but like a fine wine, it got better with ...

Just before tackling his sci-fi epic, Frau in Mond (1929) aka Woman in the Moon, which I wrote about recently, and effectively ending his early career for UFA in Germany with films like the masterpieces M (1931) and The Testament ...

Remember the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock? Well, that would make the perfect subtitle for AMC’s companion show/prequel to the immensely popular The Walking Dead, with one minor tweak – While You Were Sleeping, Rick Grimes! ...

By 1929, director Fritz Lang was winding towards the end of his prolific period of silent filmmaking for UFA in the Weimar Republic. He had already explored a number of genres, including fantasy (Halbblut, Der müde Tod, and Die Nibelungen), ...

Since the 1920s, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has inspired an overwhelming number of film adaptations. It is tragic, yet understandable, how so many of these films have been forgotten or lost over the years. Writer and director Hans W. Geissenndörfer’s 1970 Stoker-inspired ...

For fans of European horror, the year 1971 was a prime vintage. The Italian giallo boom was at its peak, while a slew of films that married high (art) and low (exploitation) values reached its most prolific and hedonistic. A ...

Making its TV debut in February 1970, hard nosed science fiction series Doomwatch was must-see viewing for the British public. However, despite regularly clocking up views in excess of 13 million, the BBC’s home economic policies of the time saw ...