With some exceptions, Italy’s violent thrillers, dubbed giallo  due to the yellow  coloring of the pulp paperback jackets that the films...

With some exceptions, Italy’s violent thrillers, dubbed giallo due to the yellow coloring of the pulp paperback jackets that the films...

Among the many sleazelord kings of European exploitation cinema, two filmmakers stand apart for the sheer quantity of their output –...

Witch trials and the murders that followed them are common fodder for horror and exploitation cinema, as discussed in the previous essay...

Critic David Edelstein coined the term “torture porn” during a 2005 New York Times op-ed, Now Playing at Your Local Multiplex: Torture...

Because I am somewhat known for my writing on Italian genre films, I will be re-writing/re-edited some of my DVDActive.com work into a...

Italy’s giallo genre, so named for the yellow (giallo) coated covers that adorned the pulp novels they were based on, was born out of...

Welcome to the first-ever companion piece essay to the first-ever Genre Grinder podcast. I’m sure I’ll give these a cute nickname...

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