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Director Ishiro Honda would make successive kaiju films that suggested or were inspired by the conditions in Japan. One such film was 1964’s Dogora.

‘One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the Twentieth Century.’ ― Jack the Ripper (1888) Man, Myth and Monster The hysteria surrounding serial killers is often linked to the birth of the media where, during ...

‘In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.’  ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) Twisting the Truth A true modern horror story not only invaded the heart of America but also the impressionable minds of ...

One of my happiest memories was the day I finished fashioning my own home-made Superman costume. To be fair it was no way near as good as the Monkey TV show outfit I had made a few months before, replete ...

Born in GODZILLA's shadow, 1956's Rodan rises from a carbonaceous nest as a loud indictment of human greed and the waning economic power of Japan's coal mining industry.

Eight. Nine. Three. In the Japanese card game hana-fuda, it’s the worst hand you can get. Eight, nine, and three—ya, ku, and sa. Japanese organized crime families adopted the name “yakuza” because of this hand. Because you need to be ...

There is a strange yet poignant compression of time and space inherent to the experience of watching The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920) in 2020. Re-experiencing the film alone on my couch, the spectral images ...

Over the decades, Western filmmakers, in the US and Europe alike, have made sure that almost any cinematic genre has had its tropes exploited in some form or another. Fully exploring even one exploitation sub-genre would be a mammoth task, ...

A true, cinematic rebel flame has been extinguished. Linda Manz died recently, of lung cancer and pneumonia. She was only 58. She basically left the film industry behind forty years ago for a quieter, more normal existence. An anti-star in ...

I grew up in the seventies and eighties, so back then ‘the war picture’ usually meant one thing – the black and white past. Epitomized by the likes of John Wayne or those grainy Sunday afternoon favorites like The Wooden ...