Tag: horror

When is a Poe not a Poe? Released in 1963, The Haunted Palace was positioned by American International Pictures as the fifth in the series of successful adaptations

It may have been John Carpenter’s Hallowe’en in 1978 which is generally regarded as the film which brought the slasher horror subgenre to prominence but it was far

It opens with a sombre funeral, but as soon as the mourners depart Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) and his assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) of Hinchley and Trumbull’s

“The Canadian film industry of the 1970s was… rudimentary,” recalls producer Ivan Reitman in one of the interviews accompanying Arrow’s newly restored Blu-ray of Canadian writer/director David Cronenberg’s

We have recently had “Super Bowl Sunday,” and ignoring the actual sport side of it, the spectacle surrounding the event has become more of a cultural phenomenon than

The horror genre is often dismissed by critics, and frequently they are right to do so, as in no other genre are the audience so willing to accept

If there is one sad truth about horror films, it’s that while there are those writers, directors and producers who are genuinely talented and interested in exploring the

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. Director Terrence Malick and musician Kate Bush have been known to vanish from the public eye for

A most distinct subgenre of horror, the Italian giallo films often looked beyond the hot passions of the Mediterranean to American pulp thriller novels and Hollywood for inspiration,

The concept of the first volume of The ABCs of Deathwas simple: an invitation extended to filmmakers the world over to submit a short film based around an