Before streaming libraries and algorithmic recommendations, a roller rink could feel like a complete cinematic universe. It had flashing lights, hard wheels,…
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Low-budget cinema has always depended on practical effects, borrowed locations and whatever materials a resourceful crew can find before the money runs out.…
Sexploitation cinema has always understood that desire can be staged as danger. A plunging neckline, a whip, a stiletto, a motorbike or a knowing glance may…
There is a special kind of movie badness that feels almost intentional. The sets look borrowed, the dialogue arrives before the actors are ready, the plot…
A stunt performer usually enters a film through the back door. The audience notices the actor taking the punch, leaping from the roof or crashing through the…
The 1970s horror film understood that a building could behave like a character. Corridors seemed to remember violence, peeling paint suggested buried…
At first glance, a Belgian exploitation horror film and Japanese anime seem to occupy different corners of cult cinema. One arrives through misty European…
Few horror images are as immediately recognisable as Michael Myers standing motionless in a suburban doorway, a blank pale face aimed towards the camera. The…
A body crashes through a window, a bottle explodes across a bar, or a masked killer sends a pane raining into the street. The image changes from film to film,…
A film soundtrack can reveal how a production really worked. A polished score suggests time, money and a carefully managed studio schedule. A warped guitar…