Tag Archives: American cinema

Much-loved and much-discussed, The Exorcist (1973) undeniably remains one of cinema’s most treasured films. Not only one of the most successful motion pictures ever made and a classic of the horror genre, this demonic chiller also helped usher in a ...

Although the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) has existed for nearly a decade, the organization has really picked up steam over the last couple of years. Their mission to rescue and preserve film oddities of all shapes and sizes has ...

Dear Reader, even though I’m someone who is frequently accused of being a hateful contrarian, there is a lot—really an embarrassing amount—of love in my heart. Sometimes this love might seem misguided, as in the case of my obsession with ...

Kings are chosen by gods, fingered divinely as part of a history that has been written before their birth. Larry Cohen has reigned for over 50 years writing, producing and directing dozens of films – a royal bounty of stories, ...

Bigfoot. Ancient astronauts! Noah’s Ark? You might think I’m referring to the programming schedule for the History Channel, and you wouldn’t be wrong depending on who you ask, but for anyone wondering why modern television is populated by what are ...

Older generations really get hot and bothered by millenials. They don’t like our modern technology, social media, new trends, progressivism, cannabis, collapsible bicycles and most of all: Netflix. The loudest declaration from what can only be described as #BabyBoomerFilmTwitter is ...

Born in Bukovina—a location familiar to Dracula fans—in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto Preminger is one of several prominent European filmmakers forced to flee Nazism and emigrate to Hollywood, which he helped to reshape over the years with his daring and ...

  The 1974 Charles Bronson classic Death Wish, directed by Michael Winner, was based on a 1972 novel by the same name written by Brian Garfield. Both are about a mild-mannered Every Man. His wife is murdered and his daughter ...

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; I dare not move my dim eyes any way, Despair behind, and death before doth cast Such terror, and my feebled flesh doth ...

I have a long history with the film Microwave Massacre (1983). I originally rented it from my local video store in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in the mid-1980s. At that time, I was quite honestly still in an idyllic time in ...