The 20 Best Black & White Horror Films In The Sound Era

If horror cinema came to fruition and experimented with all manner of wonders in the silent film era, sound didn’t so much kill it as streamline it for effect. Certain norms came into play that kept film-makers from imagining themselves all the way down the wrong blind alleys (as silent filmmakers occasionally did) and had […]

20 Essential Films For An Introduction To Dutch Cinema

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The first film screening in Dutch history took place in 1896. This was less than a year after the first private screening of projected motion pictures ever took place. This early, the Netherlands were already part of the film industry. Since then, the Netherlands have always played a role in the European film scene. And […]

The 20 Best Vampire Movies Every Horror Fan Should Watch

Cinema’s debt to vampires can not be underestimated. Seductive, dangerous and lonely, vampires called cinema’s attention nearly since its beginning and were crucial to cinema´s development by writing some of its most memorable chapters. Myths and historic approximations surrounding vampires are abundant. However, it was Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula the novel that settled the modern picture […]

Filmmaker Retrospective: The Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

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Committing oneself to an ideal is a respectable goal. However, the protagonists of Darren Aronofsky’s films would benefit from keeping everything in moderation. As an emerging auteur, Aronofsky is still fairly young, but over the past two decades, he has proven himself as a director with consistent vision and mettle. His stories are warning tales […]

13 Essential Alan Parker Films You Need To Watch

Angel Heart (1987)

Starting his working life as a copywriter and director in advertising for over a decade, British auteur Alan Parker (b. 1944), while not the most subtle of directors to work in the industry, has created some of the most indelible, emotionally unsentimental and truthful of films over the past half century. Breaking onto the cinematic […]