Wilczyca
Wilczyca (1983) is a Polish horror film directed by Marek Piestrak. Piestrak specialized in modestly budgeted horror films that typically had either a folkloric or Gothic bent. Wilczyca is a… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Son Of Dracula
Legend has it that in 1972 Ringo Starr called up his friend Harry Nilsson and pitched him the idea of doing a musical film that spoofed the Universal Monster movies… Read more »
Jack & The Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) was Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s passion project. The comedy duo produced this family classic themselves with original songs by Lester Lee and Bob Russell…. Read more »
Der Fan
It would be too easy to sum up Eckhart Schmidt’s film Der Fan (1982) as a horror movie about a teenaged girl’s obsession with a pop star. At every turn… Read more »
Stunt Squad
Valli (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) and his gang our muscling their way into a cut of the local businesses one bombing at a time. The extreme violence of Valli’s attacks which leave… Read more »
1984
Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, has become something of a classic itself. 1984 (1984) is a masterclass in the power of production design which itself is… Read more »
Femina Ridens
Piero Schivazappa’s Femina Ridens (1969), or The Laughing Woman, posits that Modernism, as a series of aesthetic principles, is the last bulwark against the tide of progress. Schivazappa’s direction solicits… Read more »
Threesome
Before screenwriter and director Andrew Fleming unleashed his masterpiece The Craft (1996) on audiences, he made the much smaller and far more intimate Threesome (1994). One of the things that’s… Read more »
Radio On
In 1978 and 1979 a number of different Unions went on strike in Great Britain. The strikes were in opposition of the government’s conservative restrictions on pay raises. As a… Read more »
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched
Kier-La Janisse’s documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) is 192 minute epic that lays behind Severin’s best home video release to date; the All… Read more »
