Guests come to visit with presents for their hosts. Worshippers leave offerings for their Gods. It’s never bad practice to come bearing gifts, but on American Gods, where hosts can be gods, are you also required to believe? In the ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Japan experienced a boom in samurai films to coincide with their emerging fiction cinema.  Some of the country’s earliest cinematic output includes action-oriented swordplay films known in the native tongue as chanbara – ...

Top Sensation (1969), also known as The Seducers, and Swinging Young Seductresses is the first of only two films directed by Ottavio Alessi – the other being the Italian black comedy What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964), itself a ...

As part of our Asian cinema season, Diabolique is focusing on specific directors for themed weeks, dissecting a selection of their filmographies. This week is dedicated to Takashi Miike, and the team has collaborated on a group article that slices open the wounded, ...

The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival was founded by Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson with the aim of providing a platform for female writers, directors, and producers working in the genre. Now in its fifth year, the event ...

When I was a teenager, I had a reoccurring nightmare which featured a shadowy figure who would watch me while I slept. He just stood there, and watched me. Sometimes he’d edge closer and closer until I woke up in ...

When it comes to maverick filmmakers, very few embody non-conformist ethos as much as Larry Cohen does.  Cohen has been making movies for nearly 60 years, starting off as a screenwriter before taking up directing because other directors of his ...

Though ridiculously prolific director Takashi Miike is most often remembered for his gory horror films—such as Audition (1999) and Ichi the Killer (2001)—he’s made far weirder films throughout a career that has spanned nearly three decades and explored a range ...

Although the Italian offering Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot (They Call Me Jeeg AKA They Call Me Jeeg Robot, 2015) is lower on breathtaking visuals, special effects, and budget than any of the recent big Marvel or DC films, it has more ...

With four decades of experience as a working character actress, based first in New York and then Los Angeles, Linda Gillen has seen a lot and done a lot. Beginning in the mid 1960s, when she cut her acting teeth ...