When we talk about movies, we’re often talking about directors. It’s an ingrained thing — it means we’ll ask somebody about their favourite Hitchcock scene or Scorsese’s recurring themes, but rarely about their favourite John Sayles script, except maybe when he’s also in the director’s chair. The writer in particular has been relegated to a […]
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10 Great Italian Horror Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
If you’ve made it this far, you probably already know what lies ahead. You’ve heard the stories, about movies so violent you won’t be able to make it through the first act; about bannings and protests and effects so real you won’t believe they were faked. Well, the stories you’ve heard are true. These aren’t […]
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10 Great Giallo Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
Without them, there would be no slasher movie. Seriously. They gave us the first-person perspective during a murder, the successive beautiful women getting stabbed to death, the gratuitous sex, even the idea of revealing the killer’s identity during a final confrontation with the last survivor. Really, what’s Friday The 13th if not an American giallo? […]
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10 Great Italian Horror Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Exploitation films have been made in every country with even a rudimentary film industry. The United States is particularly famous for it, but England had the Hammer films and the Philippines had a thriving exploitation industry, even producing the great Cirio Santiago. But there is no country that’s committed itself to being so flamboyant in […]
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10 Great Cult Horror Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Exploitation may not do the business it once did, but in terms of sheer numbers, it’s just as vibrant as it ever was. What’s more, the new ones can often go toe-to-toe with the classics, and a few of them — Sharknado, for one — become genuine cultural phenomena. It’s an impressively giant industry populated […]
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10 Great Cult Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Shocks… Thrills… Chills! The exploitation movie has been around for a long, long time. There’s even reason to believe that Thomas Edison might have been an O.G. pioneer in the field: his movie The Execution Of Mary Stuart, among the first ever made, features Mary, Queen Of Scots getting her head chopped off and literally […]