This low-budget early feature from Cronenberg is a subversive horror film that charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.
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‘The Long Hair of Death’ – Barbara Steele takes sweet revenge on Amazon Prime Video
Antonio Margheriti is best known to modern audiences (if at all) thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who memorialized his name in Inglorious Basterds; it’s Brad Pitt’s cover name as he infiltrates a Nazi function and he can’t even pronounce it. The real Antonio Margheriti was a prolific director cranking out genre pictures through the 1960s and […]
Halloween Picks: The best of Mario Bava on Amazon Prime and Fandor
Mario Bava essentially created the genre of baroque horror known as “giallo,” a distinctly Italian twist on stalk and kill horror film. Under his direction, Grand Guignol gore is transformed into lush, visually elegant cinematic spectacle, a waking nightmare with the poetic grace of a musical and a demented edge of sexual perversity. After rising […]