What of the ephemeral horror film experience? That is, the movie we watch knowing we’ll likely only see it once, likely having encountered it by chance, but which is...
BY COLIN FLEMING | August 30, 2025
A rare case of a film striking the perfect horror-comedy balance, The Day of the Beast is also an...
BY LAURA KERN | December 30, 2023
As we entered the 1990s, the era of sleazy sex thrillers, genre fans exited the previous decade with the parting gift of 1989’s Dead Calm.
BY LAURA KERN | October 25, 2025
Legendary Amicus anthologies like Freddie Francis’s Tales from the Crypt (not to mention TV shows...
BY LAURA KERN | October 31, 2022
It’s so strange that Dario Argento’s 1996 movie called The Stendhal Syndrome is really about post-traumatic stress disorder when...
BY LAURA WYNNE | December 27, 2024
Every so often, an actual reputable film materializes from Troma’s output of zero-budget shlock. Despite its nonsensical title...
BY LAURA KERN | June 19, 2024
With its theatrical origins—Piotr Rowicki’s play Adherence—Demon might be stagey in its limited setting, but there’s so much...
BY LAURA KERN | October 31, 2021
Her name, brilliantly chosen, is Purificazione: Purification. Scapegoated, slut-shamed, and viciously abused, Purif is...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | February 17, 2025
Demons (1971) begins with the sun’s burial. It sinks beneath the horizon, like the circle leaving a Japanese flag. This brief color...
BY TOM PHELAN | July 11, 2025
Outside of the occasional action blockbuster or turgid documentary about the history of women’s sports, there are few spaces for female...
BY VIOLET LUCCA | November 7, 2024
Andrzej Żuławski will be your guide through hell, giddy as Virgil his first day on the job. He conceived his second...
BY TOM PHELAN | December 30, 2023
Well, here we have quite the farrago: Tod Browning’s penultimate film, Lionel Barrymore in drag, enslavement, telekinesis...
BY COLIN FLEMING | December 20, 2024
The trick of the classic-rock guitar solo depends on what came before it. The best—which is to say, the most exemplary in this...
BY FRANK FALISI | October 24, 2025
A peculiar pre-Code concoction of horror, sci-fi, murder mystery, and slapstick romantic comedy, Doctor X was filmed simultaneously...
BY ANN OLSSON | March 17, 2022
In 2009, Sam Raimi, the beloved cult-horror auteur of the Evil Dead films turned idiosyncratic mainstream genre director...
BY MICHAEL KORESKY | June 14, 2022
An American doctor arrives in a French village. He’s come to wed the niece of renowned local scientist Dr. Renault, but a storm forces...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 30, 2024
Well, here we have quite the farrago: Tod Browning’s penultimate film, Lionel Barrymore in drag, enslavement, telekinesis...
BY COLIN FLEMING | December 20, 2024
A peculiar pre-Code concoction of horror, sci-fi, murder mystery, and slapstick romantic comedy, Doctor X was filmed simultaneously...
BY ANN OLSSON | March 17, 2022
In 2009, Sam Raimi, the beloved cult-horror auteur of the Evil Dead films turned idiosyncratic mainstream genre director...
BY MICHAEL KORESKY | June 14, 2022
