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October 18, 2021

666 (Beware The End Is At Hand) A Nollywood Parable

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When […]
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October 17, 2021

Peter Strickland’s In Fabric Beckons

Peter Strickland’s In Fabricis visually stunning. It borrows heavily from the Italian Giallo aesthetic. The colors are super-saturated and garish like Dario Argento’s Suspiria or […]
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October 15, 2021

The Black Cat And The Queer String Of Films It Inspired.

On the face of it, Edgar Allen Poe’s 1885 story The Black Cat does not appear to have any connection to LGBTQA+ issues. What is known about […]
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October 15, 2021

The Eyes of My Mother

The Eyes of My Mother was written and directed by Nicolas Pesce in 2017. It was his first film and was produced by Magnolia Pictures. It […]
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October 15, 2021

Embrujada: Sometimes Making A Movie Badly Makes It Better

Embrujada answers the question what would a Buñuel film look like if Buñuel had no money, no talent, and very little skill. However, it is Embrujada’s […]
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October 15, 2021

Take A Cruise On The Ship Of Monsters!

Forgive me but as a science geek, the introductory lines of this film are too offensive to remain unaddressed. We open with a disembodied narrator […]
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October 14, 2021

Favorite Scenes №1: Nosferatu

In 1922 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau filmed the climactic end to his film Nosferatu. Our heroine, Ellen, sits cowering in her bed as the vampire enters her […]
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October 13, 2021

Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s Hiruko The Goblin

This is not your typical Shin’ya Tsukamoto film. If you’ve seen the two Tetsuo films, don’t expect something as intense or insane as that. Hiruko The […]
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October 13, 2021

A Disastrous And Wonderful Film Called Horror Of The Blood Monsters

I knew nothing about The Horror Of The Blood Monsters when I innocently clicked “play” and sat back in my chair. It’s a low budget piece of junk […]
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October 13, 2021

What Is It About Zombies?

We all know how to kill a zombie. We may not remember any of the real biology we learned in high school, but in case […]
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October 12, 2021

Enjoy a Hearty Helping of Baby Blood

You know you’re in for something special when a film begins with the cooling of the earth’s crust. It takes a special kind of bravado […]
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October 11, 2021

La Loba, A Mexican Werewolf Movie

Set the fog machine to maximum fog, cue the spooky music, pan across the graveyard. Now get a close-up of the coffin opening as a […]
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October 11, 2021

The Swamp Of Lost Souls: The Gothic, Cowboy, Monster, Mystery Movie!

Let’s go south of the border and picture us a little scene. It’s a sweltering hot day in the Mexican countryside. The buzzards glide low […]
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October 11, 2021

Noir Meets Horror In Jacques Tourneur’s Curse Of The Demon

With a name like Curse Of The Demon, I thought I was in for another typical dose of campy costumes and screaming ingénues. I didn’t even […]
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October 11, 2021

What The Hell Is Shanks?

The movie Shanks answers the question of what Tim Burton would write if he were locked in a box for a couple of years and fed a […]
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October 11, 2021

The “Nothing But A Camera And Costume” Genre

You would need a pretty big dumpster to accommodate all the films that have been made with nothing but a camera and a costume. Films […]
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October 10, 2021

Big Meat Eater, Not Bad For A Bad Movie

Once you have the grinder set up and a bucket in place shove Pee Wee Herman in there. Wait for the bowtie to be fully […]
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October 9, 2021

Jack Hill’s Spider Baby

Spider Baby was writer and director Jack Hill’s first film. He managed to pluck Lon Chaney out of alcoholic exile long enough to be his leading […]
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October 9, 2021

Shot/Reverse Shot Madness In Bandhi Darwaza

Bandhi Darwaza is a two-and-half-hour, Bollywood, musical, vampire, movie. It’s campy and over the top but the vampire is actually pretty good. His makeup and movements […]
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October 9, 2021

Álex de la Iglesia’s The Last Circus

The Last Circus is a rough ride. The pacing is fast, but what makes it truly disorienting is the sudden sharp turns. The plot and mood […]
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October 7, 2021

The Value of Viy

Viy is unconventionally wonderful. As a horror film it isn’t scary, as a character portrait it is a little shallow, and as a morality play it […]
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October 5, 2021

The Whip vs. Satan

The film opens with footage of The Whip cracking his trademark weapon on the steps of an Aztec pyramid. As he gives the air around […]
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October 4, 2021

Assignment Terror

Yes, Assignment Terror is campy, that’s why I watched it, but it wasn’t just a low-budget Spanish horror film, it was also incredibly stupid. When you sit […]
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October 3, 2021

Two Film Adaptions of Botan Dōrō, Japan’s Favorite Ghost Story

The Botan Dōrō story originally came to Japan in a Chinese collection of ghost stories by Qu You. It is a classic tale of doomed lovers who […]
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