The House That Screamed
In the materials accompanying Shout! Factory’s blu-ray release of The House That Screamed (1969) they suggest that this film was a major influence on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). I personally… Read more »
In the materials accompanying Shout! Factory’s blu-ray release of The House That Screamed (1969) they suggest that this film was a major influence on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). I personally… Read more »
I have always been fascinated with Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler. Wheeler’s book is a collection of Russian and Slavic folk tales set down on paper from what was… Read more »
The Black Torment (1964) is a British horror film that really deserved its release on Kino Lorber’s Redemption label. It may be a flawed film, but it represents all of… Read more »
I first got into Hammer Films when I was roughly thirteen years old. I used to rent the Anchor Bay DVD releases from Movies Unlimited. Since then, I have been… Read more »
Seth Holt’s The Nanny (1965) is a really pleasant surprise from Hammer Studios. It’s a wonderfully atmospheric thriller whose central plot twist revolves around the emotional conflict between two generations… Read more »
In 1964, filmmaker and poet Ron Rice completed his fourth film Chumlum. Rice had met avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith the previous year, having cast the director in The Queen Of… Read more »
In the late sixties and early seventies “road movies” became a popular narrative form with the success of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969). On an international scale, filmmakers embraced the… Read more »
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (1968) captures the fervor of the Yippies’ protest of the Vietnam war at the Pentagon on October 7th, 1967. This non-violent protest… Read more »
“He (Pontecorvo) has no fucking feeling for people.”-Marlon Brando By the time Marlon Brando signed to star in Burn! (1969) he had starred in a string of box-office flops including… Read more »
By 1968, John Cassavetes had completed his fourth film Faces after three years of production. It was then, and is now, one of the seminal works of American filmmaking. It… Read more »