Smooth Kriminal: The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle [1963]
The krimi is synonymous with German adaptations of classic British mystery novelist Edgar Wallace,...
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Smooth Kriminal: Der Hexer aka The Mysterious Magician [1964]
The 1964 film Der Hexer, known in the US as The Mysterious Magician, is slightly different in...
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Smooth Kriminal: An Introduction to the German Krimi Film
While there are a few subgenres adjacent to the horror film that have become beloved over the...
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Legacies of Sade: To Succubus (1968), With Love
For my money, director Jess Franco is the best and most prolific adapter of what I would call...
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Legacies of Sade: Cruelty as Romance in Fassbinder’s Martha
Greatest director of all time (fight me) Rainer Werner Fassbinder covered a range of genres...
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Fritz Lang: The Silent Films, Part One
Over the last couple of years, Kino Lorber have been resolutely releasing all of Fritz Lang’s...
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Surveillance, Performance, Terror: Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
The January 1919 death of socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is often read by postwar...
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Love is as Strong as Death: Fritz Lang’s Destiny
Generally remembered for his contributions to cinematic science fiction, crime, and horror, as...
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Ocular Damage of the Soul: Jorg Buttgereit’s Schramm
The pathology of serial murder has always been tricky in horror cinema. Plenty of films have...
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Spies (US Blu-ray review)
Just before tackling his sci-fi epic, Frau in Mond (1929) aka Woman in the Moon, which I wrote...
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Woman in the Moon (US Blu-ray review)
By 1929, director Fritz Lang was winding towards the end of his prolific period of silent...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (US Blu-Ray Review)
[toggle title=”Specs” state=”close” ] Details Director: Rainer Werner...
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