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February is drawing to a close. The calendar is racing towards spring and the days are growing milder. In a hail of red crepe paper and discarded heart-shaped trinkets, we have left Valentine’s Day behind. Chocolates have been eaten, hearts ...

The 1960s is a time in German film history that is not often given close attention. After World War Two there was an understandable lull in rate of production and quality, seeing as how the country was slowly recovering with ...

                                                            Somewhere in the past, Dario Argento once contemplated an idea of taping a row of sharp needles underneath the eyes of cinema audiences viewing his films, thus making it impossible for them to look away even during the goriest ...

We currently live in a world where remakes, reboots, revivals, and other titles which mean something similar are constantly churned out by the Hollywood machine. Most of our favourite horror classics have already been re-envisioned for 21st century film fans, ...

The Cheddar Goblin in Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos) It is that time again for end-of-year thoughts and reflections, brought to you by many but not all of Diabolique’s contributors. Some opinions from our core writers are missing in this list, ...

Horror and sci-fi filmmaking was in a fascinating place in the ‘90s. Although far from the barren wasteland those hopped up on the ‘70s and ‘80s would have you believe, horror-wise the decade was a fallow period. Intermittent critical and ...

By Heather Drain “Rules are made to be broken.  Can’t kill what you don’t understand.”  – Wendy O. Williams  “Love is the Law, Love Under Will.”  – Aleister Crowley Art can motivate us to change the world (and clean the ...

Sergio Martino’s 1971 picture The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh is quite possibly my favorite giallo film. While my colleague Kat Ellinger started off 31 Days of Gialloween considering one of her favorites, a similar film by the same director ...

With special thanks to leading LGBT film historian and activist Jenni Olsen, we at Diabolique are going to publish past pieces from writers and critics who left a super important legacy in film culture. One such artist is the late ...