Cinematographer Jeremy Benning - providing some of the most gracious details in the Canadian farmland surrounding director R.T. Thorne’s (Blindspot, The Porter) film - knows how to lens the apocalypse, grafting each blade of grass with poetry and passion.  Even as   ...

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme is a visual and whimsical delight that will undoubtedly charm long-time fans of the filmmaker’s signature style. Though this latest entry into Anderson’s cinematic repertoire brims with his trademarks – a meticulously crafted world   ...

“If you would have come in 10 to 15 minutes earlier or later, this just might not of happened." Dark and depraved; that's exactly how independent filmmaker Joe Hollow likes it.  Which is why he is back at it with a brand-new cut of the first film he completed, The Family.  That was ...

If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava’s bloody good movie will either.  Move along, kid.  There’s literally nothing for YOU to see here if you remain unaffected by its suspense.  This film, celebrated immediately upon its release  ...

Mario Bava’s thriller, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, is really where the Italian giallo began.  Yes, it is borrowing heavily from Hitchcock  But there is a breathless agility to its overall mystery that operates a bit more fantastical than Hitch dared as a young woman (Letícia Román), while vacationing   ...

“Maybe we didn’t say it right?” No, girls. You said it correctly. And so begins the mirror game as the ghost of Lizzie Borden is summoned by two little girls one dark night. What follows is a bone-chilling horror film from independent filmmaker Calvin Morie McCarthy ...

I’m not going to mince words here. Truck Turner is one seriously badass flick. It is the type of B-movie that gets me so excited for the unlimited possibilities of low budget cinema. It is sooo much better than Shaft and the countless other Blaxploitation films offered up in the wake of 1971’s Sweet    ...

Directed by Mario Bava (Planet of Vampires), Black Sabbath remains an influential horror film. It is, after all, where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne (who all marveled at the fact that people actually paid money only to leave theaters that scared) got their band name from. But one quick   ...

Originally titled The Mask of Satan, Mario Bava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday, was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures.  The hype was all about its shocking images.  While tame when compared to today’s horror, Bava’s film  ...

“Doctors say there’s still a chance.  Come home.” Shed is a film in which the humidity and the heat seen on the screen is actually felt by its audience.  The thriller never dips in quality either, opening with a curious scene involving a radio newscast, an escaped convict, and a mysterious  ...