Ten Star Wars Ripoffs
If you grew up in the 1970’s like me, you probably love Star Wars. Or you’re some kind of cynical person who wants everyone to know how cool you are and you pose, constantly telling everyone exactly how much you hate the fact that blockbusters destroyed the artistry in film. Well, arty farty movies are still […]
21 Superhero Films of the 1970’s
As I was leaving the second Guardians of the Galaxy film, someone was complaining about the writing and I was gobsmacked. Today’s audiences have grown too accustomed to getting exactly what they want out of superhero films, getting to see the exact characters make a seamless leap from printed page to movie screen. Not to be […]
Ten Bigfoot films
I love Bigfoot so I was really excited when my friend Jennifer Upton suggested this next top ten list. Whether you call him Sasquatch, skunk ape or abominable snowman, there are plenty of names. And at least ten films that feature him as a protagonist. 1. The Legend of Bigfoot (1976): A movie so weird we […]
Ten Larry Cohen films
We’ve done retrospectives on the films of Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava and Sergio Martino, but now it’s time to go stateside and concentrate on perhaps the finest horror and exploitation film auteur that America ever produced, Larry Cohen. Cohen was born in Manhattan but raised in the Bronx, where he became a film buff, loving […]
The 95 films on the Church of Satan film list
Originally compiled for Blanche Barton’s The Church of Satan — as approved by Magus Anton Szandor LaVey — the Church of Satan’s recommended film list is made up of films that LaVey enjoyed or felt exemplified Satanism. As Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, explained to our site earlier his week, the Church […]
Ten Sergio Martino films
After the Bava and Fulci retrospectives we featured, I felt like Sergio Martino was the next logical choice. Please keep in mind that I don’t feel that I’m an expert, like Kat Ellinger who wrote the all-encompassing All the Colors of Sergio Martino. Martino is an Italian film director and sometime producer, mainly known for his […]
37 movies that make up Kill Bill
Is Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill an outright ripoff or a homage full of sampled scenes and ideas from the director’s favorite films all put together based around a story that unites them? No matter what side of the fence you stand on, we thought it’d be a good idea to list as many of the references […]
Ten Bava Films
Whenever I get down, I just remember that this world produced Mario Bava and his incredibly rich body of work. Who could go from Hercules movies to spy spoofs to gothic horror, then find time to invent both the giallo and the slasher? The son of Eugenio Bava, who worked as a special effects photographer […]
Ten Horror Movie Dogs
I love our two dogs. But they’re a horror show. If one isn’t licking something and puking, the other one is throwing up or pissing all over the floor. Oh no — one of them just chased a cat and smashed up the entire dining room! Yet we love them. We also love when man’s […]
Ten Fulci films
People often ask me in person what would be a good Italian movie to get started on or what giallo they should watch or recommend the movies of a certain director. I’m not an absolute film expert. I do, however, get asked a lot of questions. I’ve decided to start posting a few of these […]
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