On Film Threat Video
2020 marks an anniversary you probably didn’t know about: Film Threat turned thirty five
French Horror: An Appreciation
Over the past week the world-renowned glories of France were tragically blighted by terror and death. No matter: the richness of French culture will persist
More on Holy Indies
Evangelical cinema and horror movies: the comparison might seem perverse, but I say it’s valid. Consider…
The Two Davids
David Cronenberg and David Lynch: two visually gifted, unabashedly idiosyncratic filmmakers, both drawn to bizarre and grotesque subject matter
The Novels of Michael Blodgett
If you know of the late Michael Blodgett (1939-2007) it’s most likely as a beefcake actor, yet in my view Blodgett’s most enduring work was done in the three unjustly forgotten novels he published in the late seventies and early eighties
On PERSONA
Ingmar Bergman’s PERSONA: not a true “horror” film perhaps, but certainly one of the cinema’s most potent explorations of fear, apprehension and discontent
APOCALYPSE CULTURE at 25
Edited by the late journalist/publisher Adam Parfrey (1957-2018), APOCALYPSE CULTURE is a complacency shattering compilation of articles, interviews and artwork dealing with the abhorrent, apocalyptic and plain weird
Creation Books: 1989-2014
The demise of the UK’s Creation Books put an end not just to Creation’s tumultuous 25-year existence, but an entire era of fringe publishing
The New Beverly Cinema: A Personal History
The New Beverly Cinema is a Los Angeles repertory theater that in recent years has attained legendary status, in large part because of its current owner, the one and only Quentin Tarantino, and its staunch commitment to 35mm exhibition
The Novels of H.G. Lewis
The late H.G. Lewis was the writer and director of the 1960s-era gorefests BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! and COLOR ME BLOOD RED, which comprise a loose-knit trilogy. Lewis also wrote novelizations of the three films