Category: Feature Articles
Home Alone: Meshes of the Afternoon as Proto-Slasher
Filmed on a 16mm Bolex purchased with inheritance money, made for peanuts in the West Hollywood...
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Kills Count Anywhere: Gregory Dark’s See No Evil (2006)
Like a great heel wrestling character, the career paths taken by Gregory Dark defy all the...
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Bolero: John Derek’s Trashy, Hedonistic Coming of Age Romp Is Pure Skin-A-Max
One of the “guilty” pleasures of growing up during the ’80s was watching movies on Cinemax after...
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SEX & DEATH ON THE CHEAP, PT. 3
The lost world of the DTV erotic thriller occupies an unacknowledged presence in American film, yet it is one which exerts an undeniable influence.
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Karloff at Columbia Box Set
Between 1935 and 1942, Boris Karloff turned out six pictures for Columbia, all of which are...
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Once in Every Lifetime Comes a Show Like This: The Young Ones
Comedy is often viewed as entertainment. The suspension of disbelief from an audience allows us to...
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SEX & DEATH ON THE CHEAP, PT. 1: THE LOST WORLD OF THE EROTIC THRILLER
The term “erotic thriller” began to circulate in the 1980s to describe this new thriller variant.
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Who am I Doing Here? The Early Films of Atom Egoyan (1984-1993)
When it comes to Canadian filmmakers who develop threads around technology and identity, the...
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“Bless us, Dark Lord, for these thy gifts which we are about to receive”: Domestic Satanism and the American Family
Imagine a sunlit afternoon in a cream-coloured suburban kitchen. A middle-aged mother and her...
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Summer Wine: Brandon Colvin’s A Dim Valley
Strawberries, cherries and an angel’s kiss in springMy summer wine is really made from all...
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Swimming Against the Stream: John Waters’ Pecker (1998) and Cecil B. Demented (2000)
In May of 2019, John Waters penned a piece for The Paris Review, entitled “Somehow I Became...
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Here’s to the Weirdos: A Celebration of Offbeat Character Actors
Let’s face it. Most individuals that want to get into the acting dream of seeing their names in...
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