Film

The films of David Lynch are replete with performances that reveal rather than obscure. Whether appropriated for the purposes of music or theatrics, the Lynchian stage is a place where hidden truths are made manifest and artifice is stripped away. ...

There are two outcomes for the subjugated citizens of this bleak portrait of Turkey under the rule of presidential despot Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: you’re either killed by the state or enslaved by it. It’s not clear which is worse. Orçun ...

Lund International Fantastic Film Festival Reviews: Manriki Serves Up Plastic Surgery Horrors; White Snake Offers Breathtaking Chinese Animation Manriki The following films screened at the 2019 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, held in Lund, Sweden, from 27 September–5 October. Japanese ...

When someone mentions the name Skinner there is two things that jump into most people’s mind: the eternal mama’s boy and principal of Springfield elementary Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons or Mitch Pileggi’s portrayal of FBI assistant director Walter Skinner ...

Toys are often the earliest conduits for our fantasies. Silent actors, they play out our hopes, dreams and aspirations. Toys enable us to project our intangible desires onto the substance of the material world. Yet, toys can also be unsettling. ...

For many viewers of my generation, no other club on the face of the Earth boasted the kind of elite membership offered by the Midnight Society. The Society featured a motley group of adolescents who abandoned their homes by cover ...

*Spoilers for a film that turned 60 this year Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) is one of the most joyfully, unapologetically subversive films to emerge from a Hollywood that was, in the middle part of the twentieth century, ...

When watching a giallo, the audience member wants one of two things--either to vicariously live through the upper class excess the characters experience on screen, or to see these rich fools die horrible deaths for the base, solipsistic, grotesque lifestyles they lead.

Sheridan Le Fanu’s Tragic Vampire Finally Gets the Film She Deserves. Unfortunately, trends have a habit of becoming played out, and by the close of the 1960s, the Hammer horror films that had been so shocking and revolutionary found the ...

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 ...