Romero’s canonical work remains timely decades later Introduction There has been a veritable outbreak of zombie films in the last few years, from Hollywood blockbusters Resident Evil (Anderson, 2002) and[…]
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Activist & Political · Crime · Horror
Training Day (for the Pacification of Iraq): Baghdad in the Ghetto
“You know what I learned today? I’m not like you.”
Film Technology & History · Genres · Horror
Horror Queens: Divas from Hollywood’s Golden Age Rampage Through the Sixties
“She’s supposed to be shriveling away,” observed Davis, “but her tits keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills.”
Disturbing Movies: or the Flip Side of the Real
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
Blood Feast Revisited, or, H. G. Lewis, Keeper of the Key to All Erotic Mystery
After forty years, now serving porn as intentional camp for erotic consideration
DVD & Blu-ray · Horror · Reviews
The Doctors Are In! Jekyll & Hyde Times Three on DVD
Men are brutes literally this time
Gore Galore: Takashi Miike’s Audition
This is one audition you may want to skip Reports from the front lines of early cinema suggest that many viewers during the ‘teens and before were terrified by the[…]
Directors · Horror · Interviews
The Wizard of Gore: Herschell Gordon Lewis Speaks
Wit and wisdom from the man who created one of cinema’s most enduring genres JOHN WISNIEWSKI: Your background in academics was quite different from that of your partner David Friedman.[…]
Experimental & Underground · Horror · Silents
Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe’s favorite story dressed to kill by a legendary surrealist auteur Poe has proven to be one of the more enduring sources for filmmakers, not only because there’s something modern,[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Horror · Pre-Code · Reviews
Todd Browning’s Freaks (1932): Production Notes and Analysis
The normals are the real freaks in this still gut-wrenching horror classic Production Notes In mid-1931, MGM production head Irving Thalberg summoned scenarist Willis Goldbeck to tell him the time[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
“They Ate His Genitals!” A Sampling of European Sex and Horror Films
It wasn’t long ago that the idea of seeing a Lucio Fulci film outside its natural habitat of the urban grindhouse or the obscure home video would have been too[…]
“Are You Sure?” Edgar G. Ulmer’s Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Monsters are bad enough, but how about all those relatives? For cinema, the postwar period – particularly the 1950s when atomic consciousness became a permanent part of America’s psychic landscape[…]
Mario Bava’s Baron Blood on DVD
This middle-range Bava looks better than ever on DVD Baron Blood (original title Orrori del castello di Norimberga, Gli) is often written off as middle-range Bava at best, and with[…]
Horror · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Queer Horror: Decoding Universal’s Monsters
Monsters and drag queens and dykes — oh my! After decades of being devalued by lousy prints on video and television, Universal’s classic ’30s horror films have been resurrected, refurbished,[…]
Asian · Books · Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
Book Reviews: Video Premieres, Vampires on Video, Jackie Chan, Immoral Tales, Filmmaking on the Fringe, Horror and Science Fiction Films
VideoHound’s Vampires on Video, by J. Gordon Melton (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997). Trade paper, $17.95, 335pp. ISBN 1-57859-002-7. Vampires continue to be an important fixture on the cultural landscape,[…]
Half Human, Half Garbage Disposal: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
See Val Kilmer feed psychedelic mushrooms to the crazed beast-people! See Aissa’s forbidden jungle dance! See the terrible white monster who lumbers across the sets in pancake makeup and Bea[…]
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