Since its inception 17 years ago, FrightFest has established itself as the unholy Mecca of genre film festivals in the UK. Every year bloodthirsty fright fanatics from the UK and beyond arrive in their hordes to be dazzled, disturbed, shocked ...

It would be difficult to name a filmmaker who has had a hand in as many genres, industries, and national cinemas as Ted Kotcheff, yet somehow his isn’t quite a household name. But you would also be hard-pressed to find someone ...

Something monstrous stirs on the outskirts of Moreland, Georgia where artist James Sizemore toils in a secluded studio affectionately dubbed the “Toxicave” due to its windowless design. The studio, one of three, rests on a remote family plot insulated from ...

Decadence is a hothouse flower that bears the richest blooms at night. Shadows mask the lurid and yet, heighten and enhance the atmosphere of the lush and the languid. Faces and dark acts that few whisper and even less shout. ...

“Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.” John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) ...

This is the concluding entry in a four part series on director Andrzej Żuławski’s recently restored early Polish films — Trzecia częśc nocy (1971) aka The Third Part of the Night, Diabel (1972) aka The Devil, and Na srebrnym globie (1988) aka ...

Kent Jones’ documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)  is in theaters now. It tells the story of a monumental interview with Alfred Hitchcock conducted by François Truffaut in 1962 and the subsequent book that would inspire countless filmmakers since. Diabolique has reviewed the film, ...

In the new Chilean horror The Stranger, a mysterious man named Martin arrives in a small town at the end of nowhere. He is there to eradicate a highly contagious and dangerous disease that makes sufferers addicted to human blood. ...

In 1962 François Truffaut, the newly world-renowned director and film critic, sat down with Alfred Hitchcock for an extended interview. This interview, in which the two discussed Hitchcock’s films—and cinema in general—was immortalized in Hitchcock: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock, ...

Since the advent of VHS — and increasingly so with prosumer-level HD — cameras, the face of modern, low-budget horror has rapidly evolved. While it democratized the industry, it opened the floodgates for a sea of wildly varied films. Perhaps no sub-genre of horror has ...