Category: Feature Articles
Brief History of Aquatic Horror, Part 4: Man-Made Monsters
The 1960’s and 1970’s were shadowed by numerous ecological catastrophes that made people stop and...
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Hollow (Formerly Known as Wyvern Hill) (2022): Revisiting the Grande Dame Guignol
Elderly women have long been central figures in the horror genre. Although the image of the...
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Brief History of Aquatic Horror, Part 3: Children of Jaws
The success of Jaws not only spawned a streak of ever worsening sequels, but also inspired other filmmakers to have a stab at the killer shark genre, creating an array of cheap rip offs that shamelessly rode on the coattails of its colossal success.
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Only Death is Real: The Films of Olaf Ittenbach and the Surrealistic Splatter of No Reason (2010)
Tom Clark looks at the West German underground horror scene of the 1980s and one of its most notorious filmmakers, Olaf Ittenbach.
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Mumsy’s so proud of her dearest things: Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, 1970
If ever there was a film where the style of the written dialogue informed the narrative as much as...
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Threads (1984): When the BBC Brought Terror Home
An observation that can be made about films such as Last House on the Left (1972) and Halloween...
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Esper the Exploiter: Maniac and Early Sleaze Cinema
If exploitation cinema can be traced to a single wellspring from which all its filth and fury...
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The Merry Frolics of Pinhead
A Journey through the frequently weird, sometimes great, and often nightmarish world of Hellraiser...
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Tangled Danger: Of Hair, Revenge and Loss of Humanity
Hair is said to be a woman’s crown. Long, luxurious hair is especially considered to be sign of...
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A Half-Century of Filth: Pink Flamingos at 50
A fifty-year anniversary is an illustrious milestone for any film. It’s a weighty figure that...
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Fascism and Mass Hysteria in Le Corbeau (1943) and Panique (1946)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 film Le Corbeau (or, The Raven) is one that has not reached its...
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The Burden is Mine Alone: Sharofat Arabova’s Tasfiya (2014)
Generally speaking, the majority of western attention paid to Asian cinema throughout the years...
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