Category: Feature Articles
Blu-Ray Review: Son of the White Mare (1981)
Visually, Marcell Jankovics’ Son of the White Mare (1981), is on another level. If you grew up...
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Sherds in the Garden – Robin Redbreast and Penda’s Fen
No attempt to plot the course of Folk Horror on film can be called complete without some consideration of two seemingly humble British TV plays, Robin Redbreast and Penda’s Fen.
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Revenge of the Streghe: The Witches of Eurohorror
There’s nothing quite as offbeat and lurid as a good Eurohorror romp – or even a bad...
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Let the Revels Begin, Let the Fires Be Started
The American Mythology of Streets of Fire Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire (1984) is not a film...
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La pasión Español: The Erotic Melodramas of Vicente Aranda (1991-1999)
While the erotic thriller genre that ruled half of the 1990’s was primarily an American...
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DAVID WARNER AT 80: A LOOK BACK AT HIS LEADING ROLES
Whether you’re a cinephile or casual moviegoer, chances are you’ve enjoyed his fine...
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The Freak Out Chameleon & the Cinematic World of Al Adamson
The eye of a common director is a simple lens. Focused, uncomplicated, and infused by whatever...
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Exotic Terrors and Shameless Mimicry: The Wonderful World of H. Tjut Djalil
Indonesia saw it first great cinematic boom in the 1970’s and 80’s. After the change in power from...
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Fantasia Festival 2021 Reviews
Tiong Bahru Social Club (Singapore, 2020) It’s hard to imagine a more upbeat, light-hearted, and...
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The Psychological Horror and Consequences of an LSD-Spiked Sangria in Gaspar Noé’s Climax (2018)
Gaspar Noé’s 2018 film Climax is not a standard Jonestown-cult-kool-aid movie. It is an extension...
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For Your Consideration: Christopher Guest Drops a Truth Bomb on Tinseltown
Ever since I saw This Is Spinal Tap (1984) the progenitor of every “mockumentary” in the history...
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The Cyclical Influence of the Giallo and Erotic Thriller in Sergio Martino’s Craving Desire (1993) and Ruggero Deodato’s The Washing Machine (1993)
Italian and American genre filmmakers have a long and storied history of mutual influence. Perhaps the most storied and studied being the Italian giallo of the 70’s paving the way for the American slasher of the 80’s, which in turn began to influence the influencers. Fairly quickly too,
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