Staff Selects is back and we’re kicking off October with a selection of some horror films that we thought are underseen or else we just wanted to write about. Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto’s cyberpunk fever dream of a film begins with a man—the “Metal Fetishist”—slicing open his thigh with a knife and then…
[Written by Robert Salusbury] When a director is graced with labels like the “Master of Horror” and the “Master of the Thrill,” it’s fair to assume people may be going a tad over the top with their praise. When it comes to the Italian veteran filmmaker Dario Argento though, it’s fair to say he’s earned…
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Note: The premise and certain plot points of both of these films will be discussed, but spoilers will be kept to a minimum. The more I discover of 70s horror films, the more my claim that the genre was at its best in that period persists. The works of filmmakers like Brian De Palma, Dario…
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