A narrator who keeps interrupting, correcting and arguing with the people on screen sounds like a mistake in a conventional drama. In 1960s exploitation…
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For a short period in the 1980s, the action film’s most dangerous enemy could wear a badge. Police officers were corrupt, sadistic, incompetent, politically…
In the closing months of the 1940s, Ealing Studios released a black comedy so quietly radical that its central trick still gets dissected eighty years later.…
Few genre mash-ups sound less compatible than a British zombie apocalypse and a warm romantic comedy. One promises bitten pub regulars, improvised weapons and…
The history of exploitation cinema is littered with stories of producers demanding the impossible: a feature-length film, shot and scored, ready for the…
The film that defined modern zombie cinema almost looked completely different on screen. When George A. Romero and his crew loaded the cameras for what would…
Some films are remembered because they were polished, expensive and expertly marketed. Others survive because somebody, somewhere, pressed the wrong buttons…
There is a particular breed of low-budget filmmaker who commits so completely to a single strange idea that the resulting picture becomes a kind of accidental…
Every cinephile has at least one line they can recite without thinking. A favourite quote lives rent-free in the brain, ready to fire off at a barbecue, a…
It sounds like the kind of premise cooked up for a late-night horror anthology, but it actually happened on a real exploitation set during the genre's wildest…