Over the first three decades of his long career, Lucio Fulci deftly navigated the waves of Italian cinematic fads. Unfortunately, when he finally found himself at the forefront of one of those fads – the gore-soaked horror trend that grew out of Zombie (Italian: Zombi 2; aka: Zombie Flesh Eaters, 1979) – the entire industry began to crash. The already low budgets cratered and the distribution market for exploitation films began favoring home video over theatrical releases (no

While not a household name outside of specific corners of exploitation fandom, writer/director Norifumi Suzuki was a vital contributor to...

About two years ago, perennial podcast co-host Patrick Ripoll and I recorded a two-part piece on the giallo movies of 1971...

Despite the enormous impact of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), zombie fiction took years to fully embrace the mechanics

No other director had a bigger impact on Hong Kong action cinema than Chang Cheh, who directed and/or wrote around 100 movies across six...

Outside the sentiment that states all animation is for adults if it’s good enough, the term ‘adult animation’ applies to everything from...

Hokuriku Proxy War (Japanese: Hokuriku dairi sensô, 1977) was the last film in the ‘true-account’ line. He made one more street-level...

Having watched the extensive new interview with director Tarsem Singh on this new Arrow Video 4K UHD of The Cell, the positives and...

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Italian: Non si Sevizia un Paperino; aka: The Long Night of Exorcism, 1972), was Lucio Fulci’s third giallo...

The 1980s are remembered as the end of the line for Shaw Bros., but a number of the studio’s greatest films were released between 1980...