The Obscure Melodies of the Morbid and the Sadistic in American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange
The morbid metaphysics of the mind occasionally decide to take a little detour. This weird brain...
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Category: Feature Articles
Writer-Director Cameron Van Hoy Talks About His Fantastic New Crime Thriller, Flinch
Flinch is absolutely the finest crime film since S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99.
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When the Deadites Come a Knockin’: The Evil Dead Trilogy as a Home Invasion Series
Home invasion films have been with us since the silent film era. The very first recorded effort,...
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More Than a Freeling: JoBeth Williams as Cinema’s Final Mom
Mention Poltergeist (1982) to any horror fan and the first thing out of their mouths is likely to...
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Booze, Murder, and Art History in The Golden Glove
By now it is difficult to imagine a new serial killer film that is original and unique, which...
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I Don’t See the Shirtless Ones: Denying the Male Aesthetic of Slasher Films
It can be argued that there is a massive cultural and artistic difference in the image of a bare chested woman to a bare chested man in film, however, when one denies “seeing” the male form as something more than a character in transition from being clothed to not, it can be absolutely considered a dismissal of female and non-hetero male sexuality.
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Confessions of a Cineslut: Drugs are Boring, M’kay… And the 90s sucked: On Trainspotting (1996) and Heroin Glamour.
The 90s — sometimes referred to as classic years by anyone who wasn’t old enough to remember them...
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Passport to Espionage: Innocent Bystanders
The 1960s were a golden era for spies on TV and in film. Perhaps viewing imitation as the...
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Wooden Swords and Cut-Price Sorcery
Conan the Barbarian lit the fuse for an explosion of cheaply-made, scummy knock-offs that found their way into fleapits and (mostly) video rental stores for the next half-decade.
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Guilt and Enjoyment in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
“There have been times when I’m eating a meal and feel guilty I’m eating a meal.” — Leslie...
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Ramshackle Pleasures of the 1980s Video Shop
I was born in 1975. It turned out to be perfect timing to witness the golden age of video, making...
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An Englishman’s Guide to Italian Gothic: An Angel for Satan (1966) and the End of the Golden Age
“Don’t you know? I adore violence.” — Barbara Steele as Harriet / Belinda in An Angel...
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