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The 1964 film Der Hexer, known in the US as The Mysterious Magician, is slightly different in structure than the usual German Kriminalfilm of the era. Often times these Edgar Wallace story adaptations include a title referencing the antagonist, usually ...

Unless you’re a screenwriter, or aspire to be one, you probably wouldn’t know the name Alvin Sargent, but you certainly know his work.

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 ...

Let’s just start by saying this is possibly my favourite Australian film – and that is a mighty big call, because during the 70s and early 80s, Australia really knew how to deliver fantastic genre films. A lot would be ...

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

Fearless Fagan tells the story of a young lion working steadily at a travelling circus that suddenly has his life turned around when he has to join the army with his master and best friend Floyd Hilstown (Carleton Carpenter). This ...

The harsh conditions of a frosty windswept Canadian wilderness are more than just a setting in Raoul Walsh’s Northern Pursuit (1943). Instead, this landscape that serves to be a point made between Europe and North America for all the wrong ...

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 ...