Before he was a cult film superstar, Takashi Miike was a working-class filmmaker toiling away in the coal mines of Japanese V-cinema (the region’s equivalent to direct-to-video). His career exploded in the wake of his now classic, anti-romantic horror movie Audition, which premiered in October of 1999, but caught on, thanks to a wider Japanese release and multiple festival showings in 2000. Soon, American and European audiences were looking into Miike’s already extensive film

The concept of body horror as a vehicle for exploring women’s mental health and other feminist philosophy was brought to mainstream attention in recent years, thanks to Coralie Fargeat’s surprise awards darling, The Substance (2024)...

The 1970s were a golden age of made-for-TV horror in America, fronted by Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971), Robert Day’s Initiation of Sarah (1978), and the wider oeuvre of Dan Curtis, including the soap opera Dark Shadows (1968-’69), The Night Strangler (1973), and Trilogy of Terror (1975). These films established new formulas that flourished, despite the limitations presented by FCC standards & practices. During the 1990s, Stephen King adaptations grew beyond theaters and made

Perhaps the most unusual aspect of Belgian martial artist turned international superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme’s already unusual career was the number of times he played dual roles. He appeared as twins separated at birth in Ringo Lam’s Maximum Risk (1996), he played clones in Lam’s Replicant, and time travel helped him to play different versions of the same guy in Peter Hyams’ Timecop (1994). This all originated with Sheldon Lettich’s Double Impact, a moderate hit that Van D