From the Grindhouse to the Arthouse
The grindhouse and the arthouse: two distinct modes of cinema that would appear to be leagues removed–and for the most part they are.
JAWS at 40
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the June 20, 1975 release of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS
Five Reasons Wes Craven was the Most Important Horror Filmmaker of his Generation
The shocking death of Wesley Earl Craven on August 30, 2015 has led me to conduct a serious reappraisal of his place in the horror firmament.
Grindhouse Nostalgia: Myth and Reality
Everyone, it seems, loves grindhouse cinema
CLOSED CIRCUIT
An Italian made movie theater set murder mystery that gradually morphs into something far stranger and horrific
CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS!
Don’t you hate it when a “classic” horror movie turns out to be…well, like this one?
THE CAR
One of the odder JAWS wannabes from the seventies: a big budget horror programmer about a killer car!
CANNIBAL MAN
A solid, if pretentious, 1971 psycho thriller from Spain
CANNIBAL GIRLS
So-bad-it’s-rotten comedy-horror from Canada, notable only for the fact that it was an early effort by director Ivan Reitman
THE CANDY SNATCHERS
I caught up with this 1973 obscurity fairly recently, but it immediately jumped to the top of my grindhouse fave list