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...

THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE FINAL CHAPTER...Gabe and special guest Patrick Ripoll from Tracks of the Damned are back and finishing what...

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...

Larry Steward’s The Initiation (1984), not to be confused with Brian Yuzna’s Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990), was released..