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Laird Cregar is The Lodger, Merlo Oberon and George Sanders co-star, John Brahm directs

Laird Cregar is ‘The Lodger’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 11/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Brahm directs this film noir by way of Gothic thriller, a shadowy suspense thriller in the Victorian era during the reign of Jack the Ripper.

‘Kill, Baby… Kill!’ – Mario Bava’s haunted village free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, giallo, Halloween, horror, International Classics, Kanopy, Kino Classics, supernatural, SVOD, thriller 10/30/2023 Sean Axmaker

This Gothic ghost story with haunting images, grotesque edges, and glorious style is an early classic of the distinctive Italian horror genre known as giallo.

Felix E. Feist's 1933 'Deluge,' the first end-of-the-world disaster movie

Blu-ray: ‘Deluge’ – The original end-of-the-world disaster movie restored

Blu-ray, DVD, Kino Lorber, pre-code, Science Fiction 03/12/2017 Sean Axmaker

Deluge (1933) (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray, DVD), the original end-of-the-world thriller, is a curious and often fascinating artifact. Produced in 1933, before the production code came down on Hollywood, on a relatively modest budget, it imagines not just the destruction of civilization in (unexplained) earthquakes and cataclysmic storms but life after the flood, so […]

Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in Robert Siodmak's 'Cry of the City'

Blu-ray: ‘Cry of the City’ on Kino Lorber

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Kino Lorber 01/03/2017 Sean Axmaker

Cry of the City (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) (1948) is a film noir that should be better known. It’s directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I […]