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...

Teruo Ishii is a filmmaker all exploitation/horror fans need to be made more aware of. He was the mad genius behind episodes 1 through 6...

By 1972, Italy’s post-Bird with the Crystal Plumage giallo boom was in its second year and already cresting. The genre had a couple of great

As a horror director, Joe D’Amato (real name: Aristide Massaccesi) is probably best known for strange slasher variants, like Anthropophagous

Andrew Davis’ The Final Terror (1983) wasn’t very popular upon its modest release (two years after it was finished), doesn’t have a...