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Fucked up and over at the miserable old age of 70, Jim Thompson died at home in, of all places, Los Angeles-a town that promised golden dreams to an aging novelist who’s novel writing days were over. He got fucked ...

What’s the buzz? It’s Emma Westwood! Talking about her work on monster movie history and her books on The Fly, Seconds, and an assortment of other wonderful things. She and host Lee discuss classic horror, James Whale and his Bride ...

How Sam Sherman, Independent-International Pictures, Severin Films and DVD Drive-in are Bringing Ballyhoo and Blood Back to Resuscitate the Drive-in. Frankenstein Monster (John Bloom), Producer Sam Sherman, Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov), and Director Al Adamson on the set of Dracula vs ...

Former film critic/journalist-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie made his directorial debut with 1999’s low-budget political thriller Deterrence. While the film received (mostly) positive reviews and became the first of several political-themed films Lurie would become known for, it hardly set the world ...

Joe likes his music, attending weekend gigs in his best shmatta of brogues, Sta-Prest trousers, and Brutus shirts. He avoids the National Front elements creeping into his beloved Skinhead world, preferring to get pissed or get laid, hopefully both. The ...

The name Chester Turner doesn’t make an instant connection to filmic auteur and black cinema pioneer, but it should.

The film avoids the tropes of “lovers facing a terminal illness” movies for the most part, offering instead a quirky, sometimes acerbic, original take on such subject matter.

Matt Rogerson looks at a number of genre films from the peak years of exploitation and considers whether the passage of time places these films in a new artistic light.

It is quite an honor to be able to put into its proper historical context the Witchcraft series of films.

The first episode of The Locust Files features Craig Martin, a writer and academic who has recently completed a thesis on evil children in movies. Craig and Lee Gambin discuss the long history of the evil child in cinema, from ...