Interviews

Coming off two successful films with a significant cult following (Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99), screenwriter/director S. Craig Zahler seemed like a guy who could do no wrong. And then he did, even though he didn’t really. ...

Photo credit: Mark Senior. It was early January when I received the invitation. Did I fancy taking a trip into a sub Arctic central London to sit under a dank railway arch beneath Waterloo Station, while the trains packed with ...

Michael Winner’s Scream For Help (1984) is a thoroughly enjoyable – as well as nutsy – hybrid of a Nancy Drew style mystery, a psycho-thriller that has gas lighting on the agenda and a contemporary slasher (which were all the ...

Hasbro! Kenner! Mattel! You know them! They’re those companies that made My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Star Wars, Barbie, and any and every movie tie-in toy. Police Academy toys?? YEAH, actually I DO want that — THANKS, KENNER! I ...

This past year saw the reemergence of Spike Lee as a filmmaking powerhouse with his latest effort BlackKklansman, the true story of a black cop’s unlikely integration into the Ku Klux Klan. With the critical success of Klansman, many people ...

“Giaco (Furino) and I really wanted to make a movie that clashes 80s’ punk movies and slashers, and has these outrageous characters in this heightened comic book world. However, we wanted to circle it all around this character study of ...

This Tuesday, April 10th at Film Noir Cinema, Miskatonic University will continue its inspiring series of lectures surrounding cult film and literature with a talk from Rémy Bennett, a New York-based filmmaker, writer, and curator—and occasional Diabolique contributor. Read her ...

TL Wiswell is the brains behind the London Lovecraft Festival. In 2016 her gender-switched interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness was a sell-out success at 2016’s London Horror Festival. In February 2018 Wiswell put together a programme of shows ...

Tom Worsley of Bête Noire Productions discusses bringing horror to a live audience with Father of Lies, a real-life horror drama. For seven spine-tingling years the London Horror Festival has presented some of the very best comedy, cabaret and drama on ...

Spectacular Optical, a small print Canadian publisher run by Kier-La Janisse, has become known for their unusual film anthologies focused on things like the Satanic Panic, kids-themed movies and TV shows, and the films of Jean Rollin. Their upcoming offering, ...