Low-budget horror has always understood a useful truth: audiences will forgive a rubber monster long before they forgive a boring film. A creature can look…
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Few action-film stories sound better than the claim that a major star hated a script so much that he demanded his character be killed in the opening scene. It…
Few horror films have done as much with as little as Halloween. John Carpenter’s 1978 shocker had a modest budget, a masked killer, a suburban street, and a…
Kung fu westerns occupy a wonderfully unruly patch of cult cinema, where dusty frontier towns meet flying kicks, crooked sheriffs and villains who seem equally…
In the 1970s, sexploitation cinema learned that a label could be as powerful as an image. A film presented as a social investigation, anthropological record,…
A director casting a porn star as the lead in a family-friendly adventure movie sounds like the setup for a cheap punchline. In cult cinema, however, strange…
Few movie cars have a silhouette as instantly recognisable as the black Pursuit Special from Mad Max. The low nose, enormous rear tanks, side pipes and…
Long before streaming platforms made obscure horror easy to find, Asylum slipped into the crowded world of British anthology cinema and nearly disappeared.…
Filmmakers have always wrestled with the gap between ambition and budget. When a script demands a journey across continents but the production can barely…
In the strange world of martial arts cinema, reality often takes a back seat to storytelling. Real champions are cast as losers so that movie stars can look…