Film

Bloodsport is based on the life and livelihood of Frank Dux, a source of gradually diminishing credibility. He was, as he tells it, an undefeated martial arts champion and the essential catalyst for a wide-spread 1980s interest in ninjutsu. While ...

Monstrous extraterrestrial visitors to Earth occupy a strange place in our imagination. Origination from outer space immediately places them on the outside, the wholly other, external to earth’s animal taxonomy or social hierarchies. Yet, their earthly visits, or plunders, are ...

The 1960s is a time in German film history that is not often given close attention. After World War Two there was an understandable lull in rate of production and quality, seeing as how the country was slowly recovering with ...

Made for TV horror movies from the seventies have an undeniably distinct charm. I mean who can forget the sleek sinister tension that builds from story to story in the wonderful Karen Black vehicle TRILOGY OF TERROR (1975), or the ...

Ask any heterosexual American female and she’ll verify the following: for whatever reason, the majority of men in the United States actively resist romance films. Sure, the more cerebral male viewer will defend this by questioning the merits of the ...

Modern audiences tend to associate extreme, spectacular, and sadistic violence with contemporary cinematic phenomena such as “torture porn” and the infamous “video nasties” of the 1980s. For many of us, the uncomfortable visual spectacle of watching bodies rent asunder and ...

Project Blue Book is a brain-sucking worm lodged in the zombified skull of America, incessantly jamming the fear button in what’s left of our parasite-eaten gray matter to provoke us into shadowboxing hallucinations of the Deep State and Russian spies.

I’ve got spies. They’re coming to get you. From Berlin to Rome, Bangkok, Germany. – Spies, Roni Griffith It takes a lot less to end the world. – The Soldier If ever there was a downright halcyon time for the ...

It’ll be a little soggy but just keep slogging. We’ll soon be on dry ground.” We were — waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool said to push on. – Pete Seeger (Waist Deep in the Big ...

There is some strange common notion spread around general film criticism and movie fandom as well as being deeply rooted inside the “horror community”, that the teens (or at least the twenty-somethings playing teens) and the young adults (usually prescribed ...