Though Leni’s Cat and the Canary expanded the concept to inspire Gothic horror, gialli, and slasher movies, The Bat’s influence on the Old D

Enzo G. Castellari’s High Crime (Italian: La polizia incrimina la legge assolve; aka: The Marseille Connection, 1973) was sort of the...

I doubt there's a single everyday phrase in contemporary Hollywood more tiring than "intellectual property," an obsession that, despite...

Few films are as suited for rediscovery in the "vibes" era of the 2020s than American Gigolo. They say time is a flat circle, and while...

YOU DON’T NEED TO GO TO AMITY ISLAND FOR A SHARK MASSACRE!! IN FACT, YOU DON’T EVEN NEED A SHARK!! It’s easy to recognize a Jaws...

During the ‘50s and early ‘60s, director Tai Kato was a journeyman for Toei Studios, churning out respectable, influential jidaigeki...

Demons (Italian: Demoni, 1985) was a vivid work of pop art splatter designed to please the widest horror audience possible and its...

At the onset of the mid-’80s, Italian horror and thriller cinema was in decline as the entire industry struggled to make ends meet, yet...

The late ‘70s were a wild time for kung fu cinema in the west, as A-level films from major studios, like Shaw Bros. and Golden Harvest...

Don't know if this constitutes a "hot take" among nerds roughly my age, but I think it's fair to say that Spaceballs is not Mel Brooks'...