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In this third and final segment of Kat and Samm’s series on obscure but stunning giallo films, they look at five of their favorite titles—nearly all of which involve a protagonist’s descent into madness—beginning with Francesco Barilli’s The Perfume of ...

About mid-way through Amer, Cattet & Forzani stage what is perhaps the most awkwardly dramatic taxi ride in cinematic history. Travis Bickle may have a number of adventures in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), but most of what occurs in his ...

In the Folds of the Flesh is advertised as “the 1970 sickie that would make Freud himself scream in horror.” Apparently a sickie is a movie that is really sick, like how a talkie is a movie in which people ...

“The first concern, the concern of naïve realists, involves what might be called a perversion of cinema—that is, a simple misuse of the natural (to Bazin, noble) realism of the medium. The second concern is more complex: it addresses cinema ...

In episode fourteen, Kat and Samm begin a three-part look at the art giallo film, the more unconventional cousin to everyone’s favorite Italian horror genre, popularized by directors like Mario Bava and Dario Argento. This episode begins with a look ...

Though he might lack the cinematic attention given to British Gothic writers like Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley, Boston’s beloved son, Edgar Allan Poe (though Richmond, Philadelphia, and Baltimore also consider him theirs), has had a profound influence on both ...

British company Arrow Films has really been on a tear in recent months with a number of exceptional and maybe a bit unusual themed cult film box sets bursting with extras: noteworthy examples include their American Horror Project, Volume 1, ...

For fans of European horror, the year 1971 was a prime vintage. The Italian giallo boom was at its peak, while a slew of films that married high (art) and low (exploitation) values reached its most prolific and hedonistic. A ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

The Film **Review mostly originated for the Arrow release, sections have been update to account for the differences between versions. All screen grabs have been provided via Scream Factory’s new edition.** White of the Eye (1987) is an interesting film for ...