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Argentinian horror film The Returned (Los que vuelven, 2019) is set in 1919 in the jungles that border that country and Brazil, where something supernatural and sinister resides, far beyond the understanding of the wealthy landowners who exploit the area ...

Micro-budget filmmaker Ron Ford. In a career that has spanned over thirty years, and looks to go even a few more decades, Ron Ford should be known in genre-movie circles far and wide. He isn’t, though. Despite being a pioneer ...

Civil unrest as a deadly virus spreads across the planet. Citizens fleeing large cities in panic as travel restrictions are enacted. Rationing enforced as society begins to crumble. Governments not to be trusted. One may think this is a routine ...

Director Im KwonTaek’s The Divine Bow (Shingung, 1979, South Korea) is a drama about the traditional Korean religion of shamanism and features several scenes of rituals and exorcisms. It should be noted, though, that this is far from a horror ...

The 1990s gave us two brilliant films dealing with sexuality and deception. Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game (1992) and David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly (1993) were riveting works that asked the question: “Can love transcend conventionality?” After all, both efforts involved ...

“Each film tells you what it needs if you listen.” — Jennifer Kent Australian cinema resembles its landscape — pockets of beauty surrounding a vast Outback of baron features and hardened personalities — where, still within their infancy, it is ...

Years after his 2013 passing, Jess Franco remains ever the cinematic iconoclast with a handful of specialty home video labels keeping Franco’s spirit alive for devotees both old and new, offering revelatory restorations of Franco titles, the merits of which ...

Nineteen eighty-four’s Ghostbusters’ success was achieved through several near-perfect moves. With flawless casting, performances, and script, the paranormal comedy blossomed into a global success. Success, however, was contingent on the paranormal interest and appetite of moviegoers. Luckily for Ghostbusters, the ...

The Italian film industry has a long and proud tradition of cashing in on other people’s success. Due to Italy’s very loose copyright laws, the 1970s and ’80s were rife with rip-off productions, unofficial sequels, and re-titled projects that took ...

Out there, in the multiverse of movies, is Peter Bogdanovich’s Zombieland from 1970. On Earth-Z739, Bogdanovich was never introduced to Larry McMurtry’s novel, The Last Picture Show (1966) where, in this parallel world, he shot a zombie picture in the ...