Film

“The whole city is full of madmen. It’s like a carnival shooting range.” —Umberto Lenzi’s Almost Human An icon of Italian cult cinema—particularly spaghetti westerns and crime films—Cuban-born actor Tomas Milian possessed a talent beyond his niche reputation. He regularly ...

At some point in a vaguely dystopian near future, humankind is reliant on a new form of nuclear power. Built upon the carcass of a previous station, this state of the art engine repairs the damage caused by its predecessor ...

Drifter, the debut feature-length from Chris von Hoffman, is post-apocalyptic cannibalistic action yarn which gleefully pays homage to the films that inspired its creation.  A romantic mixtape to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), George Miller’s Mad Max series and others, ...

The Nazis hated it. The Vichy government and Catholic church were none too keen, to say the very least, and the Resistance condemned it too. It was banned, its lead actors briefly imprisoned, and its director blacklisted for three years. ...

Way back in the 1960s there was a game we played on the way home from school, where we would ring random strangers’ doorbells and run off hoping to leave the unlucky householder fuming on the doorstep. We called it ...

Since its inception 17 years ago, FrightFest has established itself as the unholy Mecca of genre film festivals in the UK. Every year bloodthirsty fright fanatics from the UK and beyond arrive in their hordes to be dazzled, disturbed, shocked ...

It took fearless Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones (2012), a comically twisted, balls-to-the-wall gem, a long time to finally see a release and now his follow-up is here. If anyone was brave and lucky enough to see Byrne’s ...

Salò, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or The 120 days Of Sodom, 1975) is necessarily associated with director Pier Paolo Pasolini. His interpretation of The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade is considered to be ...

I began this three-part Fernando Di Leo series a few weeks ago with a look at two of the first films in his poliziotteschi trilogy, the Milieu Trilogy: Milano calibro 9 (Caliber 9, 1972) and La mala ordina (The Italian ...

Okay. Zombie films. Sigh. What’s there to say about zombie films that hasn’t been said already? Not much, really. Though I suppose that I should find something, or this will be a really short review. Scratch head, roll eyes towards ...