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The rape-revenge genre has long been one of the more prolific in exploitation cinema, yet out of the entire cannon, you’d be hard-pressed to find one more brutal, more unforgiving than Cirio H. Santiago’s Naked Vengeance (1985). The multiple traumas inflicted on ...

Charles Bronson epitomizes the stealthy, no-nonsense action hero who bounces from calculated vigilante to hardboiled straight shooter with equal precision and dedication

Rest in peace, Robert Forster (1941-2019).

Bela Lugosi isn’t Dracula, but Christopher Lee is, as Hammer Horror is born. In late 1934, a British comedian named William Hinds started a film company, Hammer Productions Ltd., named in honor of Will Hammer, the stage name which had ...

Disc Details Arrow Video, 2019. Region A.Feature: 94 mins. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.  The Movie After Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971), director Aldo Lado returned to the giallo and delivered one of the genre’s most interesting fims, Who Saw ...

The visionary Paul Verhoeven’s much-maligned $45m schlockbuster Showgirls, a sleazy rags-to-sequins story of potato chips and backstabbing dancers set amid the cum-slicked clubs of Las Vegas, was received with almost unanimous disgust upon its release in 1995. Elizabeth Berkley plays ...

So let’s say, just for the sake of argument, you’re a vampire. Not one of those post-Anne Rice vampires with the leather trench coat and the bad poetry and an appreciation of royalty-free industrial music. No, I’m talking about one ...

New York documentarian Hansi Oppenheimer kicked off her career with a film about the band The Replacements (Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements), which took her nearly a decade to complete. She then set about making a documentary ...

The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Lund, Sweden) from September 27 until October 5. Hungarian film His Master’s Voice (Az Úr hangja, 2018) is a trippy, challenging work focused on a man’s search for ...

Before we begin, let me take you back to 1989. I was 13. It was the year of Tim Burton’s Batman, starring Michael Keaton. Comics were huge at the time. It was a great age to be a Marvel reader ...