Over the decades, horror subgenres have become codified through repetition, scaring and surprising in the way they bend the rules set by earlier iterations. So what do you do with a total outlier like the asylum-set Japanese silent “A Page of Madness,” which inspired no imitators and foll...
Italian workhorse director Lucio Fulci dabbled in many genres, but was clearly most in his element with horror. His “Gates of Hell” trilogy may be the highwater mark of his career, and the second film,The Beyond, is a gruesome, surreal, Lovecraftian treat about a Louisiana hotel that ma...
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) was the first film of several to capitalize on the comedy duo’s popularity and merge them with several horror characters in a hybrid of the horror and comedy genres. The zany film was enormously popular with fans, leading to other subsequent pairings...
In building IndieWire’s new list of the greatest horror movies ever made, we opted to omit some films that straddle the nebulous line between the horror and thriller genres. We paid attention to selections that paved the way in innovations for the genre and for filmmaking as a whole, as ...
– Evan Dossey, Midwest Film Journal “Like the stand-ups it spotlights, it knows how to tell a joke, and how to get off the stage before you’re tired of it.”– Stephen Whitty, Film Racket “A lovely and fun horror comedy that plays it safe when balancing the genres. An indie ...
s many short documentaries that fill the gaps between films.Alan K. Rodegives an overview ofCurtiz’sextensive oeuvre, one in which individual films are better remembered than the director who worked on them all due to his chameleonic ability to switch genres—who would think that the same ...
I’m not quitting writing, but I am stepping away from it for a bit. Not sure when I’ll hop back in the writer’s seat, but when I do, it will likely be to try my hand at some other genres or styles while taking up a new pen name. ...
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Over the decades, horror subgenres have become codified through repetition, scaring and surprising in the way they bend the rules set by earlier iterations. So what do you do with a total outlier like the asylum-set Japanese silent “A Page of Madness,” which inspired no imitators and foll...
– Stephen Whitty, Film Racket “A lovely and fun horror comedy that plays it safe when balancing the genres. An indie gem.”– Federico Furzan, Movie-Blogger.com Posted in comedy, Crowdfunding campaign, dramedy, Film School interview, Horror, Sci-fi / horror | Leave a reply Censor –...