Gabe Powers

For the most part, the giallo and poliziottescho booms were populist fads, cranked out quickly for low budgets and released in other countries as straight exploitation market fodder. But there were exceptions – films with arthouse aspirations that played with genre, ignored clichés, and gained international prestige. The best examples (as far as I’m concerned) would be Elio Petri’s savvy satirical thriller Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italian: Indagine su un cittadino al di...

During the ancient early days of the public internet, I once stumbled across a website called Losman’s Lair of Horror (you can still visit it, thanks to the Wayback Machine). The Lair was devoted to cataloging and reviewing films that Losman considered the most disturbing movies of all time. As a young horror fan with a new rental subscription card, I was always looking for under-the-radar titles to add to my watchlist. Alongside notoriously cruel and disgusting films, like Pier Paolo...

Greetings from war-torn Minnesota, where the patron saint of chopping trees has a special message for the rest of America! Get your T-shirt RIGHT HERE!   and your sticker   RIGHT HERE! And be sure to check out our OTHER DESIGNS , including similar messages from Paul's friend Godzilla, celebrations of the brave frogs fighting injustice, and more. These are print-on-demand shirts, not traditional silkscreen. Now that I know a little better how that process works, I'm trying to design stuff with...