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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 ...

You remember your first time, don’t you? The scratchy palms, the butterflies, the pools of sweat. Laying back and wondering what would come next, and then the moment when you knew you were crossing the line but you pressed on ...

Mike Diana is the focus of a new documentary, Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2018), directed by the legendary Frank Henenlotter. The film details the 1994 Florida obscenity charge that landed Mike in jail as the only visual ...

The body count horror film is an age-old institution, but it has to be understood that way before films such as Halloween (1978) established this prototype as a “go-to” and provided a sturdy blueprint for films to follow, pre-code outings ...

In 1964, Universal Television produced a new CBS sitcom from producers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the creators of the wildly-popular Leave It to Beaver. The show, titled The Munsters, would depict the home life of a family of monsters. ...