WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?
The apotheosis of killer kid movies! This Spanish chiller from the seventies is unadulterated exploitation, to be sure, but it’s also superbly made, suspenseful, disturbing and impossible to forget
On THE TIN DRUM
THE TIN DRUM (DIE BLECHTROMMEL) by Gunter Grass has been widely acclaimed as the greatest German novel since the end of WWII
The Horror Films of Janusz Majewski
Janusz Majewski is one of Poland’s most durable and prolific filmmakers
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!