Film

By allowing characters like Sugar and Baron Samedi to play with these stereotypes as part of their plot to destroy racist villains, Sugar Hill empowers them to perform a violent rejection of these stereotypes.

What’s that? Did something touch your leg? It could be seaweed, or it could be…a monster!

If you grew up in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you know there was no shortage of frugally made yet wildly enjoyable direct-to-video classics lining the walls of your local video store. I spent many a night renting these ...

Split Second came at a time when it seemed like there would be a British vanguard of sci-fi action movies. There was something about their Britishness that set them apart from similar films, a feeling that they’d been ripped from the pages of the UK's venerable 2000AD comic.

Cosmic horror and body horror make for a potent, deadly duo in The Beach House (2019), the debut feature from writer/director Jeffrey A. Brown. Though the film serves up tropes previously explored by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen ...

Welcome back to Passport to Espionage. In this installment we time trip to the 1960s, a decade in which a profusion of spies infiltrated the cinemas. Sean Connery debuted as James Bond in Dr. No (1962) and created a sensation. ...

A former schoolteacher with extensive disfigurements, the terrible result of a car crash, is shunned by a gossiping community. A freedom fighter in medieval Scotland throws out colonialist overlords and is hung, drawn, and quartered in reprisal. Jesus Christ redeems ...

How Sam Sherman, Independent-International Pictures, Severin Films and DVD Drive-in are Bringing Ballyhoo and Blood Back to Resuscitate the Drive-in. Frankenstein Monster (John Bloom), Producer Sam Sherman, Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov), and Director Al Adamson on the set of Dracula vs ...

Former film critic/journalist-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie made his directorial debut with 1999’s low-budget political thriller Deterrence. While the film received (mostly) positive reviews and became the first of several political-themed films Lurie would become known for, it hardly set the world ...

Janet Fitness. Gloria Hole. Audrey Heartburn. Rosebud Cianci. Perhaps you don’t recognize these names yet, but in time you will. Drag culture is packed with over-the-top performances that are just as recognizable in punny names than the appearance of the ...