Feature Articles

Anyone with a healthy love of Oliver Reed is more than a teensy bit familiar with Burnt Offerings (1976). Written by Dan Curtis and William F. Nolan – with Curtis at the helm – the story is a retelling of ...

The early 1980s were a revolutionary time for horror. Franchises were being established that still continue to this day. Some of the most iconic horror films of all time were released during this period and many of them were major ...

“I feel swept by destiny into a strange, beautiful dream.” —Swept Away The first part of this essay explored director Lina Wertmüller’s first two, important collaborations with the actor Giancarlo Giannini: The Seduction of Mimi (1972) and Love and Anarchy (1974), ...

She pursed together plump, bee stung Angelina Jolie lips before Ms Jolie was even a sparkle in Jon Voight’s eye. Her own lovely large eyes – rounded with permanent surprise – came framed with ramrod straight eyebrows that point up ...

“An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue, An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo! An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray, An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,– You ...

Known for her explorations of political and sexual themes—with onscreen sexual and romantic relationships often serving as allegories for political conflicts—Italian director Lina Wertmüller has often been unfairly neglected alongside contemporaries like Fellini, Pasolini, Bunuel, and other male directors working ...

“I’m a vagrant known as Blind Oichi.” There were four installments in the Japanese Crimson Bat series (1969-1970), each starring the amazing Yoko Matsuyama as Oichi — the blind female avenger. This first entry was directed by Sadatsugu (Teiji) Matsuda, ...

We all know the story. A white man is guided in the art of an “exotic” culture only to become the best of all time. It’s a story that’s been prevalent in Hollywood from the very beginning, even causing controversy ...

As it’s the first of International Halloween Month, or “October” to non-believers and plebs, it’s that time again folks: gather round, and let’s crack out the Silver Shamrock. I used to think I was alone in my unadulterated rabid love ...

The slasher sub-genre has long held a complex relationship with women in horror – both onscreen and in the audience.  Dually criticised for its misogynistic representation of – usually naked – women as passive victims, it has been simultaneously praised ...