Tag Archives: Gothic horror

Cursed families are long-serving denizens of Gothic horror storytelling, dating all the way back to Horace Walpole’s trendsetting 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Whether that’s a legacy of evil passed between generations, or a heritage of haunting that seeks ...

Before she became director of the Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, Tasmanian writer and filmmaker Briony Kidd directed a short film in 2010—The Room at the Top of the Stairs—which has recently become available on the genre streaming ...

Like so many other European talents from the first part of the twentieth century, German director John Brahm was forced to flee his home country thanks to the rise of Nazism, and eventually found his way to the United States, ...

In the introduction to In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, editor-annotator Leslie S. Klinger observes that “Poe’s best stories traverse the ranges of existentialism—pondering the inexorable nature of time and death and the indifference of God—and of the depths ...

Video Watchdog called it: “A definitive work”, while SFX warned “Essential… Don’t even try and discuss British horror films until you have read it”. Jonathan Rigby’s English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015 is a crucial text for all horror fans, ...

From the cape-swishing terrors of Hammer and the twisted portmanteau narratives of Amicus, through the underrated chillers of Tigon and myriad vehicles for titans of terror Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, to contemporary carnage courtesy of titles such as ...

Kino Lorber releases Black Sunday on Blu-Ray… Part of their Mario Bava Collection Director : Mario Bava Starring: Andrea Checchi, Barbara Steele, Ivo Garrani, John Richardson Type: B&W Year: 1960 Language: English Length: 87 min Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Video codec: ...

At the end of the 1960s, the world’s reigning horror queen, Barbara Steele, announced her retirement from the screen. Thankfully, the green-eyed, raven-haired beauty returned to the horror genre in the mid-70s, but before she did, she spoke at length to ...

On this episode, which complements Diabolique magazine’s special Bram Stoker centenary issue, I’m very pleased to have as my guest director John Badham, the man responsible for Universal Pictures’ 1979 adaptation of Dracula, starring Frank Langella and Sir Laurence Olivier. Hard to believe ...

The first time I ever saw Black Sunday, the American version of the Italian horror classic La Maschera del Demonio, was at a drive-in with (I believe) Konga as a double feature. The year 1960 was a particularly banner year for genre films, when ...