Film

  On a budget of $14,000 and the experience level of DIY beginners comes a non-direct homage to grindhouse and exploitation films in The Theta Girl. Moving through the festival circuit like a force of nature, The Theta Girl is ...

Maybe being granted three wishes was never a straightforward process, but there must have been a time when they were something to hope for, because despite all the horror stories of wishes gone bad, the idea that they can help ...

The Psychopath was completely unknown to me, but most of the Amicus titles are. Their catalogue has been a huge blind spot for me as a horror viewer, mostly because they weren’t as widely available as Hammer films. The Psychopath ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...

Legend of stage and screen Stacy Keach has 15 minutes to talk. Factor in the foul-ups of connecting via an international operator and that window, sadly, reduces to 10. Yet still, the fact that someone of Keach’s stature and schedule ...

Born in Bukovina—a location familiar to Dracula fans—in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto Preminger is one of several prominent European filmmakers forced to flee Nazism and emigrate to Hollywood, which he helped to reshape over the years with his daring and ...

An international serial killer is stalking the streets of Vienna. Muslim women and prostitutes are falling prey to his murderous past-times. One night, cab driver and Thai boxing machine Özge Dogruol (Violetta Schurawlow) finds the mutilated remains of one of ...

In 1931, in a sea of mist and eerie silence Dracula, the first of Universal Studio’s classic monster series haunted the silver screen. It was at the end of cinema’s transitional period from the silent era into the age of ...

Based on Keith Leopold’s 1981 novel When We Run, Chris Langman’s Run, Chrissie, Run is a movie that was hard to come by outside of its native Australia until recently. It was released direct-to-video in its homeland in the mid-eighties, ...

Actress Marsha Mason is force of nature. Here is an incredibly gifted actress who fuels her characters with a believability that is palpable, honest, pure, poignant and intimate. There is something so genuinely unique in the way she takes on ...