Author Michael McDowell’s oddest concoction was the JACK AND SUSAN trilogy, which recounted the adventures of Jack Beaumont and Susan Bright, an attractive young couple whose exploits always took place during the third year of each decade
Yes, lots of great horror fiction has been drafted by writers working outside the genre, but sometimes it’s best to stick with those who know the territory
As long as there have been movies, it seems, there have been evangelical films
Two horror-themed would-be blockbusters have recently opened, THE REAPING and GRINDHOUSE, and in the month since their respective April 6 releases both have flopped majorly
I know David J. Skal best as a writer of dark fiction, and one of the most distinctive such authors on the scene
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
Exploring the real differences between art and exploitation cinema–which, as it turns out, are pretty slim
On the morning of April 4, 2007, movie director Bob Clark was killed, together with his son Ariel, when a drunk driver swerved into the lane in which the two were driving on CA’s Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades
A few months ago Magnolia Pictures released the Steven Soderberg film BUBBLE in theaters while simultaneously premiering it on pay-per-view TV, and on DVD a few days later…