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By Robert Guffey.
For no matter who eats who first, the grave swallows both father and son in time….”
What follows is a brief excerpt from my latest book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos (Headpress, 2025). This analysis of William Richert’s Winter Kills (1979) appears in th...
By Ellie Dean.
Unusually for a film (ostensibly) produced for the American audience—it is the Filipino perspective that is most often preferenced. The emotional authenticity of Ortaliz’s performance as Dalisay is consistently accentuated in long, thoughtful takes and intimate close-ups.”
New Jersey. Mid 1990s. A gruff ex-merchant marine s...
A Book Review by Roberto Curti.
A treasure trove of material, presented in an intriguing manner….”
The title for the late Tony Williams’ final work is nothing short of appropriate: returning to the wide-open plains of the Italian Western, the British film scholar completed a journey that began in 1975 with the release of his first book, co...
By Efe Teksoy.
The silence, however, is theirs alone — something neither the camera nor the system could ever claim….”
Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) takes a man hostage — and wires a shotgun to his neck. But that isn’t the first thing he does that day. The first thing he does is make a phone call. Contact a radio station. Demand to be pu...
By Thomas M. Puhr.
At a time when genre film has reached new heights of creativity and daring, audiences deserve so much more from one of the greatest directors….”
The story goes that Stanley Kubrick, in the early stages of adapting The Shining, phoned Stephen King one morning to expound on the nature of ghost stories. Aren’t all ...