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Out now on Raro, if you haven’t seen it already, now is the perfect time to check out one of the most interesting entries in the late 70s exploitation and crime cycle: Hitch-Hike (1977). At first glance the gritty nihilism ...

Thanks in no small part to affectionate coverage in Stephen Thrower’s book Nightmare U.S.A., Pigs (1973) has been facing reappraisal as one of the dreamy independent art-horror sleepers of the 1970s, placing it alongside such idiosyncratic gems as Messiah Of Evil, ...

Canadian director Chad Archibald has kept himself very busy, churning out two low-budget features in 2015 and showing no signs of stopping. The problems with Ejecta and The Drownsman were more at a script level than anything in the technical ...

Comedian Rudy Ray Moore’s notorious first film, Dolemite (1975), which he produced, wrote, and starred in, has recently been given the treatment it so richly deserves by cult label Vinegar Syndrome. While I’ve primarily associated the company with obscure sexploitation ...

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! ...