The Fifty Best Horror Movies of All Time: A Personal Selection
What follows are my fifty favorite horror movies of all time
SHOCK FESTIVAL
Here’s a publication that’s been praised by seemingly everybody who’s read it, and with good reason
HOWARD THE DUCK: The Greatest Movie Ever Made?
A confession: I love HOWARD THE DUCK
Insanity, Satan Worship, Mind Control and Mass Murder: The (Later) Films of Philip Yordan
In observance of the March 24, 2003 death of screenwriter Philip Yordan, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and elusive talents, let’s take a look at some of his films
The Strange Case of the Dueling Klaus Kinski Memoirs
In my view that late Klaus Kinski’s most memorable accomplishment was his autobiography, an astounding cavalcade of madness and perversion
On “Holy Indies” and Armageddon
As long as there have been movies, it seems, there have been evangelical films
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
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.
Remembering Bob Clark
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
Annoying Trends in Modern Horror Movies
2003 could almost be termed the year of the horror movie, as there were so many of them. Unfortunately, the reality is that not too many of last year’s horror films were worthwhile
The Horror and Fantasy Cinema of Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz is the Czech Republic’s cinematic master of all things fantastic