Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel of dichotomies wherein each aspect of the book throws its counterparts into stark relief. Although novelist Robert Louis Stevenson’s… Read more »
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Le bijou d’amour
Le bijou d’amour (1978) follows Adrien Gomm (Jacques Manteil), a radio personality, as he investigates accounts of a succubi for his program that focuses on supernatural beings and occurrences. On… Read more »
Totally Killer
To put it in a totally reductive context, Totally Killer (2023) combines David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) with Back To The Future (1985) in order to simultaneously cash-in on 80s… Read more »
Chopping Mall
The eighties were the decade when shopping malls conquered the U.S. and developers made a fortune off of failed farms, old neighborhoods, and tracts of neglected lands. The mall was… Read more »
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
Warner Brothers’ Mystery Of The Wax Museum (1933) was the last feature film to be shot with Technicolor’s two-strip process and remains the artistic pinnacle of that short lived format…. Read more »
Black Belly Of The Tarantula
Black Belly Of The Tarantula (1971) is a misogyny fueled giallo film from director Paolo Cavara of Mondo Cane (1962) fame. While not among the luminaries of the giallo genre,… Read more »
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
Alice (Susan Blakely) is the lone survivor of an attack by the “kabuki” serial killer who has been terrorizing the city. Bereft by the death of her daughter, Alice is… Read more »
The Brides Of Dracula
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) is an underrated Terence Fisher contribution to the Hammer Horror canon. Envisioned as a direct sequel to the highly successful Horror Of Dracula (1958), The… Read more »
Waxwork
From the comically gothic text of the opening title card to the Lesley Gore finish, Waxwork (1988) is a veritable cornucopia of horror sub-genres and motifs. Released through Vestron Pictures,… Read more »
I Eat Your Skin
I first encountered I Eat Your Skin (1971) on one of Rhino Home Video’s Elvira’s Midnight Madness VHS tapes. This low budget voodoo flick shot in Florida in 1964 looked… Read more »
