There is a peculiar breed of producer who treats a screenplay like a buffet, plucking ideas at random because the meal on the table no longer entertains him.…
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Of all the bizarre intersections in genre film, the pairing of Hitler-era soldiers and the reanimated dead remains one of the strangest. These movies put Third…
Filipino genre cinema of the seventies and eighties operated with a resourceful, opportunistic energy that often left Western audiences stunned. Low budgets,…
Exploitation cinema history is littered with bizarre production stories that reveal how stretched budgets shaped the final product on screen. One of the most…
The 1978 animated adaptation of Watership Down stands as one of cinema's most jarring case studies in tonal whiplash. Richard Adams' novel was a beloved…
Picture a soundstage where the special effects budget has run dry, the stunt coordinator has quit, and the director is pacing with a cigarette and a bad…
A film can spend ninety minutes preparing an audience to cry, then lose the room at the exact moment the violins rise. The actors may be playing grief with…
Cinema has produced many strange on-screen demises, but few compare to the moment when an ordinary suburban man met his end under a porcelain throne drifting…
Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 created a strange new film market. Producers wanted another martial arts idol immediately, and cinemas across Asia filled with movies…
Some films feel as though they were discovered behind a locked warehouse door, next to a broken fog machine and three barrels marked “castle.” Wizards of the…