During the ‘50s and early ‘60s, director Tai Kato was a journeyman for Toei Studios, churning out respectable, influential jidaigeki...

Demons (Italian: Demoni, 1985) was a vivid work of pop art splatter designed to please the widest horror audience possible and its...

At the onset of the mid-’80s, Italian horror and thriller cinema was in decline as the entire industry struggled to make ends meet, yet...

The late ‘70s were a wild time for kung fu cinema in the west, as A-level films from major studios, like Shaw Bros. and Golden Harvest...

Don't know if this constitutes a "hot take" among nerds roughly my age, but I think it's fair to say that Spaceballs is not Mel Brooks'...

On a narrative level, The Inspector Wears Skirts 4 is essentially the same movie as parts one and two with a veteran supercop training a...

The only film in the Inspector Wears Skirts tetralogy to not be produced and distributed by Golden Harvest and sometimes simply titled...

FROM THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE ARCTIC TO THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, THE ARID DESERTS OF MEXICO, AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST THEY CAME…

Despite being remembered for two extremely transgressive, back-to-back horror films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and House on the Edge of...

By 1972, the Italian-made thrillers known as gialli had already crested in popularity locally. The genre would continue thriving into the...