Feature Articles

Lee Yong-min’s Career In the past couple of years, the South Korean film industry has produced a slew of horror films—The Red Shoes (2005), The Host (2006), and Thirst (2009) just to name a few—which have managed to receive exposure ...

Mother’s Day is a time for reflection; for thanks. That is why for Mother’s Day this year Diabolique would like to honor the screen mothers that scared us the most: the most blood curdling, maniacal, and horrific representations of mothers ...

Unspeakable horrors lurk in the shadows: monsters! While you may conjure images of Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, the creatures spotlighted here focus on the giants like Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong. Godzilla is the king of the ...

Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales flipped a coin. The toss decided who would take their critically acclaimed sophomore feature, Big Bad Wolves, to the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, and who would take it to the Chicago International ...

What do you think when you hear the phrase horror from the heartland? You may conjure up images of punishing mid-western weather – vicious tornadoes and bitter winters – before you imagine any monsters lurking under the bed. Missouri filmmaker ...

Let’s face it, the movie-going experience in the average city has become stale. The movies are the same, the popcorn tastes the same and the seats feel the same. Arriving early, you feel lucky if you are presented with the ...

It’s a dark and stormy night, and the barely-legal teenage girl is home alone for the evening. Perhaps she is preparing for an illicit sexual encounter with her equally teenaged boyfriend, or perhaps she is popping popcorn to watch a ...

My fascination with summer camp-themed slasher fare stems mostly from two things: my deep-seeded love of all things freaky and frightening, and my tragically unfulfilled childhood desire to attend summer camp (and partly the raging jealousy that boiled inside me ...

Imagine a darkened bedroom. Black candles flickering, burning low the oil of angst and the first hard throbs of libido. A record player is the conduit of this black acetate cosmos, playing Black Sabbath. A hand stops the record from ...

Rock music has carried associations of the demonic and the theatrical ever since the genre was spawned from the Blues and its heartbroken cross roads devil — Robert Johnson (King of the Delta Blues Singers) was the legendary bluesman who ...