Film Reviews

The first time I started Slovak director Stefan Uher’s The Miraculous Virgin (Panna Zázracnica, 1966), it didn’t end. I started the film over before it was finished, but it was the right call because the second time I decided to ...

Two alien ships exchange laser blasts amongst the stars. One rips a tear in the fabric of space and flies through a wormhole. The other lands a killing stroke before the portal closes, blocking pursuit. Our blue orb welcomes a ...

With special thanks to leading LGBT film historian and activist Jenni Olsen, we at Diabolique are going to publish past pieces from writers and critics who left a super important legacy in film culture. One such artist is the late ...

Catholics have the best scary movie paraphernalia: crucifixes, rosary beads, holy water, relics, scapulars. Priests walk into films strapped like Rambo. The power of Christ compels them to kick ass and chew guilt, and they’re all outta guilt. As an ...

The new Network release of Who Killed Teddy Bear conjures up one question aside from the film’s title–why isn’t this movie better known? About Norah (Juliet Prowse), a woman in New York City who is receiving obscene phone calls from ...

Sexuality was a key element in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s body of work. While certainly not the first to explore the subject, the director chose to utilize it in a variety of ways. In his first feature, Accattone (1961), prostitution plays ...

The horror and hockey genres could complement each other well. Think about it. What’s more violent than hockey? The sport is rooted in combat — or at least in the movies it is, when games are prone to descending into ...

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is disreputable cinema at its most unapologetic and tongue-in-cheek. Full of gratuitously violent slaughter, bad taste jokes, and a shameless disregard for moral decency, the film is 90 minutes of riotous politically incorrect mayhem that ...

To the extent that they are necessarily divergent, the worlds of film fandom and film history overlap to equally avid ends with Christophe Espenan’s 2018 documentary, The Coolest Guy Movie Ever, a 58-minute look back at the 1963 John Sturges ...

A viral outbreak has decimated the majority of humankind. The few survivors who remain live in fear of “the Changed”, the unfortunate people who’ve become feral bloodthirsty creatures as a result of the disease. Sounds like a movie you’ve seen ...