Feature Articles

Dear Reader, even though I’m someone who is frequently accused of being a hateful contrarian, there is a lot—really an embarrassing amount—of love in my heart. Sometimes this love might seem misguided, as in the case of my obsession with ...

Rural America has been politicized and pigeonholed for decades, exploited by deceitful candidates of all partisan persuasions, stereotyped by a pervasive popular culture, and frequently represented in the most superficial fashion by an often-patronizing mass media. If not literally realized, ...

“Our ancestors had imaginations that were positively – diabolic!”  The Punisher “That’s quite a poetic name to apply to what is after all a brutal instrument of torture,” comments a suspicious Rhineland doctor after being shown The Virgin of Nuremberg ...

Almost a decade had gone by since George A. Romero revolutionized horror cinema with his reinvention of the zombie in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, when he started to develop its follow-up. By this time, Romero’s reanimated, rotting, shambling, ...

“Come closer, please. I have something to tell you. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Boris Karloff. Allow me to introduce three brief tales of terror and the supernatural. I hope you didn’t come to the movies alone. As you will ...

Stories of mad scientists date back much longer than most would think, and well beyond anything approaching modern science as we know it. Every culture has told tales of people creating life from something previously inanimate. In Hebrew folklore, one ...

I come from the past. I exist in the present and in the future. I am here to offer you a life of passion for centuries everlasting. A realm which is waiting for you. A beautiful world of strange colours ...

Although a great film, Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava’s attempt to reignite the horror genre in Italy, I vampiri (US: The Devil’s Commandment), failed miserably at the box office when released in 1957. By all accounts this was largely due ...

You remember your first time, don’t you? The scratchy palms, the butterflies, the pools of sweat. Laying back and wondering what would come next, and then the moment when you knew you were crossing the line but you pressed on ...

As the midnight chimes of Big Ben resound around Victorian London, a top-hatted figure steals into a fogbound graveyard and knocks out the gravedigger who is about his business there. His desperate grey-gloved hands prise open the casket’s lid to ...