Tag Archives: Fantasy

The Last Unicorn (1982) is a strange, melancholic and deeply unsettling film. Despite its often-vivid colour palate, bold lines and frames busy with marvellous detail, it is at its heart a story of loss and disillusionment. Based on a 1968 ...

Made for TV horror movies from the seventies have an undeniably distinct charm. I mean who can forget the sleek sinister tension that builds from story to story in the wonderful Karen Black vehicle TRILOGY OF TERROR (1975), or the ...

Talk about a bad month for old and new god relations. Besides American Gods premiering soon on Starz, a collected volume of Groo: Fray of the Gods comes out this week from Dark Horse, and Groo’s reach is extending to ...

The late ‘50s saw the first major boom of Italian genre cinema with the emergence of Italian Gothic horror — films about witches, vampires, and ghosts, set in cobweb-choked castles — but these titles by directors like Mario Bava, Riccardo ...

Generally remembered for his contributions to cinematic science fiction, crime, and horror, as well as film noir, with films like Metropolis (1927), M (1931), Ministry of Fear (1944), Scarlet Street (1945), and more, director Fritz Lang’s early silent film titles ...

It is well known that iconic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was a racist. Last year, the World Fantasy Awards decided to cease having Lovecraft’s image on its trophy for that reason. Lovecraft died in 1937. Many who opposed the banishing ...

Get Mean. It’s almost an ironic title because, despite the utterance of the line by the film’s main character, the Stranger (Tony Anthony, here, reprising the role for the fourth time), the Stranger gets almost anything but mean. Anthony is ...

For cinephiles who live in or near New York City and are interested in seeing an intriguing blend of contemporary and restored Japanese films, Japan Cuts is the festival for you. Belladonna of Sadness (1973) and Strayer’s Chronicle (2015) will likely be of particular interest for readers ...

Those who are familiar with only Federico Fellini’s most famous works, such as La dolce vita (1960), La strada (1954), or 8 1/2 (1963), may not be prepared for what Fellini Satyricon (1969) has to offer. A defining characteristic many ...