DIABOLIQUE
The most iconic film made by France’s Henri-Georges Clouzot, DIABOLIQUE was the reason he was branded the “Gallic Hitchcock.”
The most iconic film made by France’s Henri-Georges Clouzot, DIABOLIQUE was the reason he was branded the “Gallic Hitchcock.”
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
The vision on display in this graphic novel is a dark and unsettling one marked by blood, slime and decay
A surrealist prank of a movie from the incomparable Luis Buñuel
A macabre anthology from France’s Maurice Sandoz that pivots on madness
A show that spoofed TV newscasts via a surreal universe of animal newsreaders and sentient objects, warping an entire generation of French youngsters
The major shock film of 2021 was this bizarre exercise in body horror from France’s Julia Ducournau
Yet another so-so Netflix movie, although this one has some impressive things
The fabled Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris was and continues to be a source of endless fascination
2019 marked the 20th anniversary of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, but I say it’s time for a look back even further, to that film’s true progenitor: the French TV program LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS