Fascism and Mass Hysteria in Le Corbeau (1943) and Panique (1946)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 film Le Corbeau (or, The Raven) is one that has not reached its...
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Arrow Video FrightFest Reviews: The Show, The Maid, King Knight, and Are We Monsters
Arrow Video FrightFest, the United Kingdom’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, returned to the big screen with in-person attendance at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square from Thursday, August 26th through Monday, August 30th, 2021 and then presented an online edition from September 1st through 5th. Here is the second in a two-part series of reviews from the festival.
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La pasión Español: The Erotic Melodramas of Vicente Aranda (1991-1999)
While the erotic thriller genre that ruled half of the 1990’s was primarily an American...
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Exotic Terrors and Shameless Mimicry: The Wonderful World of H. Tjut Djalil
Indonesia saw it first great cinematic boom in the 1970’s and 80’s. After the change in power from...
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The Cyclical Influence of the Giallo and Erotic Thriller in Sergio Martino’s Craving Desire (1993) and Ruggero Deodato’s The Washing Machine (1993)
Italian and American genre filmmakers have a long and storied history of mutual influence. Perhaps the most storied and studied being the Italian giallo of the 70’s paving the way for the American slasher of the 80’s, which in turn began to influence the influencers. Fairly quickly too,
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Passport To Espionage: The Courier
This installment of the Passage to Espionage column is a tad different: a look at a spy film based...
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Creator Robert Kurtzman On The Cult Film From Dusk Till Dawn
Sadly, although he received a story credit for his work on From Dusk Till Dawn, many fans still have no idea the film wasn’t actually conceived by Quentin Tarantino. Before Tarantino entered the pic
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Screenwriters Alexander and Karaszewski Look Back At 1408
The screenwriters initially took the assignment, thinking it would be a project they would work on for a short period of time. They wound up spending a year-and-a-half on the film, which would ultimately become one of the finest King horror adaptations to date.
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Screenwriter Michael Brandt Breaks Down 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
This interview with Brandt focuses entirely on 3:10 to Yuma and is an excerpt from the forthcoming McFarland & Company book, Perspectives on Elmore Leonard: Conversations with Authors, Experts, and Collaborators. There are major spoilers here, so if you haven’t seen the film, you might want to skip this until after you have.
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Screenwriter Wesley Strick Discusses Mike Nichols’ 1994 Film Wolf
This an excerpt from the forthcoming Bear Manor Media book, Moonlight Marquee: The Werewolf Film Encyclopedia, edited by David C. Hayes
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WELCOME TO OLDFIELD: THE MAKING OF FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM (1987)
From a Whisper to a Scream isn’t as celebrated as a lot of other horror entries from the...
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Defining the Vigilante Film: Crime and the City Solution
The initial wave of vigilante films, with special consideration to Death Wish and its conservative progeny, drew upon an apocalyptic paranoia that American society was in collapse and the only way to survive was through violence.
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