Category: Feature Articles

FEAR OF THE WORKING MAN: CLASS CONFLICT AND MASCUL...

Posted by Martyn Conterio | May 13, 2021 | Feature Articles, Slider, Uncategorized | 0

WELCOME TO OLDFIELD: THE MAKING OF FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM (1987)

by Andrew J. Rausch | May 13, 2021 | 0

From a Whisper to a Scream isn’t as celebrated as a lot of other horror entries from the...

FEAR OF THE WORKING MAN: CLASS CONFLICT AND MASCULINITY IN FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)

by Martyn Conterio | May 13, 2021 | 0

Fright Night (2011) was penned by former Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and Angel...

“Proper methods are a lot of bull!” A look at Fractured Vision’s new Blu-ray of Sergio Martino’s upscale Eurocrime film, La Polizia accusa: il Servizio Segreto uccide (SILENT ACTION,1975)

by Dennis Capicik | May 11, 2021 | 0

A few years previous, director Sergio Martino was best-known for directing several striking,...

TCMFF 2021 Reviews: Her Man (1930) and They Won’t Believe Me (1947)

by Rachel Bellwoar | May 7, 2021 | 0

It’s another virtual film festival for TCM this year and, if you’re wondering what films to watch, here are two scheduled to air on TCM that are worth penciling in.

The Twin Flame Dynamic: Exploring the Metaphysical in The Adjustment Bureau

by Susan Leighton | May 6, 2021 | 0

Funny how things change in a decade. When I first saw the Matt Damon film The Adjustment Bureau...

“The Resort” Puts a Birthday Excursion in Supernatural Peril

by Joseph Perry | Apr 29, 2021 | 0

Seasoned horror viewers will likely have seen much of the goings-on in writer/director Taylor...

Deadly Chemistry: Sex and Psychosis in the Films of Kristine Peterson

by Tom Clark | Apr 23, 2021 | 0

The ultimate legacy of Roger Corman will be many things be it his legendary accomplishments and...

The Sixth Circle of Hell: The Heretics and The Malleus Maleficarum of The Blood on Satan’s Claw

by Miniature Malekpour | Apr 10, 2021 | 4

The Blood on Satan’s Claw referenced witchcraft theories from the ’60s and ’70s to manifest a metaphor that existed as a pre-conditioned concept in rural British culture, hence contributing it to the status of folk horror.

Defining the Vigilante Film: Crime and the City Solution

by Robert Skvarla | Apr 9, 2021 | 1

The initial wave of vigilante films, with special consideration to Death Wish and its conservative progeny, drew upon an apocalyptic paranoia that American society was in collapse and the only way to survive was through violence.

I Care a Lot, or Not Enough: Bad Caregivers in Saint Maud (2019) and I Care a Lot (2020)

by Miranda Corcoran | Apr 6, 2021 | 0

My mother says that the daughters always come back… She tells me, with a kind of resigned...

Glastonbury Fayre: Music, Mysticism, Peace & Love

by Anthony Mangos | Mar 29, 2021 | 0

On the heels of director Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock, released in 1970, there arrived a number of...

Trapped and Haunted: The Gothic-ness Josh Trank’s Capone

by Martyn Conterio | Mar 26, 2021 | 0

In Josh Trank’s febrile imagining of Al ‘Scarface’ Capone’s last days on the planet, a swish Florida hacienda the syphilis-ridden psychopath called home, are framed as a series of gothic hallucinations.