Around the same time director Seijun Suzuki was redefining himself at Nikkatsu, his slightly less internationally renowned cohort, Kinji...

Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was forged in a creative vacuum that produced an unprecedented motion picture...

Time has a habit of changing the popular perception of ‘genre’ movies. When it was released in 1971, Burt Kennedy’s Hannie Caulder was...

The challenged pacifist is a common character trend throughout revisionist westerns, appearing in early subgenre entries, like William A..

When Alien (1979) co-screenwriter-turned-director Dan O'Bannon inherited former George A. Romero co-writer John Russo's unused Night of the

Brian Yuzna began his movie career producing director Stuart Gordon’s early horror films – Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), and Dolls

Following the brisk downfall of the Italian peplum/sword & sandal boom, spaghetti western idols such as the Man with no Name, Django...

Discussions concerning the ‘best’ of John Ford’s contributions to motion picture history tend to boil down to splitting hairs between his...

High on my personal list of overlooked films is Antonia Bird’s Ravenous (1999). Twentieth Century Fox was perplexed by the film’s genre...

Special effects limitations (or over-dependence), the looming shadow of suspension of disbelief, lack of thematic substance, and tonal...