Douglas Heyes’ Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Fool a person once, shame on you. Fool a person multiple times, and maybe there’s some shared...
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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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Liquid Sky: A Time Capsule of Decadence and New Wave Eccentricity
Liquid Sky captures the decadence, nihilism, and sexual anxieties of the early 1980s as well as it...
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War is No Place for Women: The Beguiled (1971)
The neuroses of women have functioned as fertile ground for storytelling. Such representations,...
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Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner: The Baby (1973)
The imprudence of Man is a common culprit in cinematic storytelling, leaving a mass of victims,...
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New Wave Noir: Wayne Wang’s Slam Dance (1987)
You know how some people say if they got to go back in time and do it all over again, they...
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Be My Pre-Code Valentine: RKO Classic Romances Reviewed
Love isn’t all flowers and roses. Sometimes it’s going on a honeymoon solo or being in a love...
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Tommy (1975), and the Culture of Celebrity.
Celebrity has long been a cultural fixation. As individuals who live in a consumer-based economy,...
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La Dolce Vida con Omicidio: Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much
During the 1950s and ’60s, Rome was the glamorous center of the world. It started when a group of...
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A Fish Out of Water Descends into Hell: An Appreciation of Killing Zoe
Reservoir Dogs (1992)and Pulp Fiction (1994)cast a long shadow over 1990s cinema, so much so that...
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Poisoning the Well: Rivalry and Test Tube Terror of “The Kindred” (1987)
Rivalry cycles regularly through the horror genre, depicting embittered siblings vying for power...
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The Ghastly Extremes of Agony: Roger Corman’s The Premature Burial
It wasn’t anything personal. Roger Corman just wanted a change. Or more money. Probably...
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