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No, it's not about the secret life of Scrooge McDuck -- reviewer Charlie Largent takes the measure of Lucio Fulci's delirious giallo…
As discriminating in their appetites as an expert wine-taster, grindhouse audiences were a special breed of movie-goer: true connoisseurs of crap. Whether…
A pretty cool cash-in combining the 60s monster-craze and Beatlemania, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles shouldn’t work but it does; powered by…
Roger Corman began directing movies in 1955 and almost immediately his ambitions were at war with his budgets—films with apocalyptic titles like…
Watching the animals of Hatari! in full flight is a politically incorrect thrill—though they’re running for their lives they have a majesty…
American-International built an exploitation empire on teens, horror, and science fiction—in 1962 they combined those cash cows into one 93 minute infomercial…
Long before The Addams Family made disembodied hands a punchline there was The Beast with Five Fingers, W. F. Harvey’s short story…
Directed by Vincent Sherman with a screenplay by Lee Katz, The Return of Doctor X stars Wayne Morris as Walter Garrett, a…
In 1960, cartoon powerhouses William Hanna and Joseph Barbera found remarkable success with The Flintstones, a stone-age parody of Jackie Gleason’s kitchen…
Early American horror films usually favored human monsters over the supernatural variety, and it wasn’t till the arrival of playful agitators like…
More ticking time-bomb than actor, Klaus Kinski was born to prowl alleyways located a murder or two away from Berlin’s seediest strip…
Films produced in the silent era were triumphs of artistic ingenuity—though they lacked even the rudimentary tools of contemporary filmmaking, no Steadicam…
Repo Man is the work of a bartender with a metaphysical bent, conjuring up strange brews and even stranger stories. Alex Cox…
British comedy has always depended on an understated quality, and nothing was as understated as their black comedies. From Kind Hearts and…
A grungy mix of sex, violence, and mushroom clouds, Vinegar Syndrome‘s The Lost Picture Show is a radioactive slice of American cheese,…
Underestimate Bert I. Gordon at your peril, his movies stunk on ice but their influence was profound. The director began his reign…
The headline was inescapable; “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Thanks to the persistence of the Hollywood hype machine,…
In 1948 Orson Welles went to toe to toe with fellow Shakespearean Laurence Olivier and it didn’t take long for critics to…
A crime drama with a horror movie heart, The Whistler premiered on CBS Radio in May of 1942. Written and produced by…
Founded by Herbert J. Yates in 1935, Republic Pictures was the Frankenstein monster of movie studios, pieced together from moribund entities like…
Between 1928 and 1930, Paramount fast-tracked three films about a high society sleuth known as Philo Vance. The movies were based on…
In I Bury the Living, one of the more eccentric horror films of the fifties, Richard Boone inherits a cemetery where the…
Universal’s classic horror films were inspired by Victorian literature, Hammer Films was inspired by Universal, and Amicus Productions was inspired by Universal,…
The Mask of Fu Manchu is not so much a movie as an issue of Architectural Digest brought to life, a high-gloss…
Which came first, the art of Philippe Druillet or the films of Jean Rollin? There’s an easy answer; Druillet began his long…