Four years after he put aside the satirical, political experiments that defined his early career to make his first true thriller, the macabre and meticulously...
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For all of Hammer’s reliance on its tried-and-true monsters, the studio did a fair amount of foraying. Hammer horror could take myriad forms beyond...
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Directors love Magritte. William Friedkin modeled the iconic...
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For all the freaky poltergeist activity and vivid visions of murder to come, The Changeling (1980) dispatches its most abysmal horrors in its opening...
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After the relative success of American International Pictures’ 1963 release of Roger Corman’s The Raven, the studio quickly...
BY ANN OLSSON | October 23, 2024
Not just a key figure in the emergence of the J-horror movement, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is also a contender for the most important filmmaker...
BY LAURA KERN | July 15, 2022
At this crazy moment, when film history is caught in the grip of multiple clichés that grind on...
BY KENT JONES | September 10, 2023