In the December 1, 1940 issue of Vogue, published just as the United States teetered on the brink of world war, novelist Carson McCullers wrote, “All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the ...

“The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.” -Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Fear of the unknown comes in multiple stripes with one of the most common and intrinsically human being ...

Zuławski spent the majority of the ‘80s making films in France that focused on the nature of performance and centered on unusual, if compelling female protagonists — La femme publique (1984), L’amour braque (1985), and Mes nuits sont plus belles ...

“Don’t open a can of worms you can’t eat.” In 1988, I was ten years old. The slasher genre was in its late cycle, and the video market was thriving. My mother was my gateway into horror films, and I often ...

Formed in London in the late ‘60s by former scientologists, husband and wife team Robert and Mary Ann DeGrimston, the Process Church of the Final Judgement has long been a source of mystery and fascination for me, and pretty much ...

You certainly get a lot of bang for your buck with Arrow’s limited edition Blu-ray of Roger Corman’s monochrome vampire flick Blood Bath. This is because the package contains not just the main feature itself but three other movies tracking ...

Let’s be honest, people: Tod Browning’s 1932 masterpiece Freaks has stood the test of time in terms of being a film that attracts controversy. A product of the the Pre-Code era of Hollywood, it used real circus sideshow performers as ...

The woman’s film — popularized in Hollywood in the ‘30s and ‘40s — encompasses a nebulous grouping of genres believed to appeal to female audiences, namely melodrama, romance, and the domestic drama. Made largely by men, these films centered on ...

Considering the output of the first half of director Andrzej Zuławski’s career, up through the mid-’80s with films like Possession (1981), La femme publique (1984), and L’amour braque (1985), I’m sure at the time no one could have guessed that ...

“Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.” John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) ...