In the budget-starved back lots of exploitation and grindhouse cinema, a single camera often had to do the work of three. Directors needed coverage, multiple…
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Some ghosts arrive with unfinished business, a tragic backstory and a talent for rattling chains. Others turn up with opinions about interior design, an…
In the world of exploitation filmmaking, saving a few dollars often meant the difference between completing a project and leaving it on the cutting room floor.…
Few moments in genre cinema history are quite as bewildering as discovering that a film was pulled from screens, confiscated by customs, or refused…
Most opening credit sequences flash by in under a minute, a quick roll of names before the story kicks in. Yet some films, particularly from the golden age of…
Harry Reems lived several lives stacked inside one skin, and the strangest of them all began when the marquee lights dimmed and the meter started clicking. For…
Long before streaming algorithms started surfacing forgotten creature features, there was a simpler path to cult immortality. A handful of mismatched roars, a…
Sexploitation cinema lives in the cheap seats of film history, where storylines run on string bikinis, paper-thin scripts, and the promise of a tawdry thrill.…
Sword fights are difficult enough on dry land. Performers must hit their marks, sell the impact, protect one another and make every movement look spontaneous.…
The set of William Friedkin's 1977 thriller Sorcerer became the unlikely stage for one of cinema's most brazen production capers. To film a sequence involving…