Film Reviews

The Case of the Bloody Iris was originally released in 1972 under the enigmatic title Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Why Those Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer’s Body?). In a film defined by the ...

Conflict between Man and the Devil has served as a long-running, albeit waning, theme in popular story telling. “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” are all popular American examples, but the ...

To begin with, Karen Black didn’t even want to appear in Trilogy of Terror. To hear her tell the story, it took an all-night coaxing session by her agent, as well as the promise that her then-husband Robert Burton would ...

In a recent interview with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the 2018 remake/reboot/sequel/reanimated corpse of Halloween (2018) underwent re-writes before making it to the screen. Most significantly, the opening of the film changed from a ...

S. Craig Zahler continues to cement himself (no pun intended) as one of modern genre cinema’s great directors with his third feature Dragged Across Concrete (2018), a brutal and brooding crime epic clocking in at two hours and forty minutes. ...

Forget that Charles Bronson passed away in 2003. And disregard the negativity that greeted Eli Roth’s 2018 Death Wish remake since trailer one. Rene Perez, writer/director of the recently released throwback Death Kiss (2018), clearly didn’t get the memo. Either one ...

Editor’s Note: This vintage film review by Mark Finch originally appeared in the May 3, 1990 issue of the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco’s LGBT weekly newspaper). One of the leading figures in the LGBT independent film world in the ...

Editor’s Note: This vintage film review by Mark Finch originally appeared in the May 3, 1990 issue of the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco’s LGBT weekly newspaper). One of the leading figures in the LGBT independent film world in the 1980s ...

Late 1960’s New York City. A place containing all the urban promise of opportunity, fresh connections, hidden secrets, Midwestern-rooted demons and uprooted repression just itching to burst out right under your black kitten heels as you walk nervously across its ...

A wild man storms into a fancy schmancy restaurant to accost his ex and her new doctor boyfriend. His skin sags with exhaustion and its accompanied with a slick grease of sweat often associated with food poisoning. He’s crazed, angry, ...