Item 1 on my list of demands to be met before returning to regular Mass on Sundays is the canonization of Ken Russell.
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The cold open to Messiah of Evil (1973) promises first-rate grindhouse, grimy as you like: a man running for his life down a suburban sidewalk collapses...
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Stripped to its essentials, the story could be an especially bleak, brazenly sleazy fairy tale. Thana, a young seamstress working in...
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Love—or what we call love—produces a lot of lip service, which isn’t a reference to kissing. We proclaim our dedication to another...
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This rarity by the director of Logan’s Run and Orca may be one of the silliest slasher films ever made, but it’s also irresistible fun...
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One of the most unheralded of Universal’s 1930s horror films, though perhaps the purest example...
BY LAURA KERN | November 13, 2024
After a curiously cutesy opening-credits sequence featuring Murders in the Zoo’s cast...
BY LAURA KERN | April 19, 2022
“There’s more than one way to lose your heart,” states the catchiest of the many taglines attached to the original, and best, Valentine’s...
BY LAURA KERN | February 14, 2025
“On the rare occasion, a special child appears…” I first watched The Lords of Salem in an empty multiplex in Easton, PA, in 2013.
BY LAURA WYNNE | October 26, 2024
“This is a living nightmare!” archaeologist Michael Radin (Martin Lavut) frantically spills to his shrink, Dr. Allen Barnes...
BY LAURA KERN | October 21, 2024
The cold open to Messiah of Evil (1973) promises first-rate grindhouse, grimy as you like: a man running for his life down a suburban sidewalk collapses...
BY TOM PHELAN | October 31, 2024
