FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
One of the most memorable films made by the late Paul Morrissey, an altogether outrageous riff on you-know-what
View ArticleTHE SPIDER WILL KILL YOU
Writer-director David Schmoeller had an obsession with mannequins, showcased in this 30-minute University of Texas thesis film
View ArticleFEVER YEAR: THE KILLER FLU OF 1918
A powerful graphic novel depiction of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918-19
View ArticleHarlan Ellison AD 6
On Harlan Ellison and the long-awaited publication of THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS
View ArticleTHE END OF THE WORLD (1916)
A 1916 Danish made depiction of Earth threatened by a rogue comet
View ArticleTHE FUTURE WAS NOW: MADMEN, MAVERICKS, AND THE EPIC SCI-FI SUMMER OF 1982
About mainstream science fiction cinema in the summer of 1982, a pivotal time for those of us who lived through it
View ArticleBEWARE US FLOWERS OF THE ANNIHILATOR
The latest and most comprehensive collection of stories by Canada's master of elegantly drafted bizarrie Alexander Zelenyj
View ArticleTALES OF THE DUMPSTER KID
The most ambitious product of the New German Cinema was this bawdy three-and-a-half-hour epic
View ArticleTHE ANIMAL (1968)
An especially intriguing trash-fest combining period-specific sexploitation with HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER-esque psycho-horror
View ArticleTHE DOOR IN THE WALL
An H.G. Wells adaptation that offered up a new, and never again utilized, innovation: The Dynamic Frame, in which the aspect ratio is shifted to serve “the dramatic needs of the story”
View ArticleTHE UNIVERSE AS PERFORMANCE ART
Weird fiction is alive and well in the twenty first century, and THE UNIVERSE AS PERFORMANCE ART is a standout example
View ArticleMONSIEUR ROBERT HOUDIN
Those wanting a straight biographical portrait of the legendary French magician Robert Houdin should probably avoid this 1966 telefilm, whose treatment is far from orthodox
View ArticleHAPPINESS
A 1998 film that in its pitiless depictions of loneliness, jealousy and boredom is more relevant to the iPhone age than the time in which it was made
View ArticleTHE COFFEE TABLE
2024's major shock-fest, containing all the things that make Spanish horror great
View ArticleA NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
It's no longer the mind-blower it once was, but Wes Craven's 1984 classic remains an attention-getter
View ArticleCRIMSON KISSES
An unfairly ignored, and later revised, DRACULA pastiche that deserves to be rediscovered
View ArticleRemembering That Which is Better Forgotten: THE CANNONBALL RUN
One of the great curiosities of late Twentieth Century American cinema was the monster success of THE CANNONBALL RUN in 1981
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