Category: Cult Cinema
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There are films that are important, films that are influential, and then there are films that are so fucking strange that you can watch them more than a century later and still find yourself thinking, What the hell am I watching? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is all three. Released in 1920 and directed by…
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There are sequels, and then there is Bride of Frankenstein. Most sequels are made because somebody somewhere has looked at a successful film, stared lovingly at a spreadsheet and thought, “We could probably squeeze another few quid out of this bastard.” And occasionally, because the cinematic gods are strange and unpredictable creatures, somebody takes that…
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I hate spiders. Horrible creepy crawly bastards. Too many legs, too many eyes, fucking fangs! Utter nightmare fuel. So, you can imagine my delight when I sat down and viewed the trailer for Crawlers. Formerly known as Arachnid, the new horror film is heading to US cinemas nationwide on October 16 through Roadside Attractions and…
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Trinity Content Partners will bring seven horror and thriller titles to UK digital throughout September, with the lineup spanning folk horror, cyber gothic horror, supernatural horror, science fiction and psychological thrillers. The first two titles arrive on September 7. Steven Fierberg’s British chiller The Spirit Lock will be released through Seven Tales, while Steve Looker’s…
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Jack-O’-Learn Changes The Dynamic of Traditional Learning Putting a Goth and Dark Edge on It How did you come up with the character Jack-O’-Learn? Jack: I’ve always loved Halloween. The spooky season has sparked my imagination for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I was constantly drawing monsters and spooky characters, and…
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Editors Note: Krisanna Marie is back again, this time sitting down for a chat with Weird Aunty Mildred, a horror and macabre creator who makes one of a kind oddities. Tell me a bit about your company and creations? Who are you where are you based Weird Aunty Mildred: Thank you for having me! My…
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Filmed under a title that defies the basic laws of English syntax because Golden Harvest executives were genuinely superstitious about their previous box-office flops starting with the letter ‘M’ (hence Wheels on Meals instead of Meals on Wheels), this movie is an absolute high-water mark of action cinema. By the mid-1980s, the old-school, costume-heavy studio…
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There is a moment during the early 1960s where science fiction cinema abandoned all remaining pretenses of middle-class respectability and plunged headfirst into a subterranean pool of pure madness, and that moment is Joseph Green’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Filmed under the significantly more honest title The Head That Wouldn’t Die in 1959 but…
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Watching the 1975 Ho Meng-hua classic The Flying Guillotine, is watching the exact moment Shaw Brothers realized that the traditional, honorable swordplay of the 1960s was dead, buried, and ready to be replaced by something deeply cynical and explicitly weaponized. Before this film, the studio’s output under directors like Chang Cheh or King Hu usually…
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If you want to talk about the absolute apex of Taiwanese independent chop-socky cinema, the conversation starts and ends with Lee Tso-nam’s Shaolin vs. Lama. By the early 1980s, the traditional kung fu movie was supposed to be dead and buried. Golden Harvest was leaning hard into urban stunt-spectacles with Jackie Chan, and the big…