Twelve years after directing Cool Hand Luke, television-cum-Silver Screen director Stuart Rosenberg created what many label the iconographic haunted house narrative. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo killed his family with a shotgun before declaring that the estate’s voices were...
Zombie films are starting to litter video store shelves just as much as vampire films are and American Zombie is just another one to add to the fire. Seriously, ever since the rise of the zombie film in the past few years both on direct to DVD and in theaters the...
I grew up in Bakersfield, California, not exactly the forefront of the entertainment industry—but just around the corner (well, if the corner took two hours to get around) was Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles was KTLA Channel 5. That’s where I first encountered...
American Psycho is a film I like to use to test people with: Either someone likes it or they don’t. If they say they don’t care for the movie, they’re disqualified on general principle. However, if they give it a thumbs up, they still haven’t passed, they have to tell...
This is probably one of the best documentaries about horror films ever made. The Documentary talks includes interviews with horror directors such as George Romero, Tobe Hopper, John Landis, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg, plus interviews with college...
Director Bernard Vorhaus’s The Amazing Mr. X is an all-but-forgotten near-classic of noir cinema which I cannot say enough about. Aside from its mold-shattering cinematography by John Alton, Vorhaus blurs the line between fraudulent manipulation and the unknown as he...
