Teinosuke Kinugasa’s glorious and vibrant masterpiece, Gate of Hell, excitingly receives a Criterion digital remastering this month, a certifiable occasion because this not only recreates the film’s initial visual beauties, but the first time it will be widely available stateside (cinephiles were...
this time taking on a hive-mind creature that’s hell bent on turning the world into a giant slime pit. Excellent early Hammer and best of the 50’s Blob movies. Sub-genre: alien invasion. Also, of course,