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The Monster That Challenged the World

July 26, 2026

It had one of the grandest titles in science fiction history. Its monster turned out to be a giant snail. THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE…

Within the Woods

July 25, 2026

Two years before The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi shot a 32-minute horror film over one weekend for $1,600. The plan: make something scary enough…

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Love Witch

July 21, 2026

In Obsession (2026), a hopeless young man casts a love spell on a woman and it threatens to destroy them both. 10 years ago, one…

Hell’s Belles

July 14, 2026

The film treats biker girl Cathy as a commodity. The actress who played her became a princess. HELL’S BELLES (1969) is an American International Pictures…

The Movie Orgy

July 12, 2026

Long before Gremlins, Joe Dante made a movie so tangled in other people’s copyrights that he could never legally sell it. For decades, the only…

Incubus

July 11, 2026

Months before Star Trek, William Shatner starred in a horror film performed entirely in Esperanto, the constructed international language created in 1887 by a Polish…

Village of the Giants

July 9, 2026

Long before he directed Apollo 13 and won an Academy Award, eleven-year-old Ron Howard mixed a batch of bright pink goo in his basement and…

The Pyramid

July 6, 2026

He was Tarantino’s inspiration for Cliff Booth, the stunt man character played by Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. He once faced…

In the Soup

July 2, 2026

It beat Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. Then it disappeared for twenty-five years. The reasons were…

Longtime Companion

June 28, 2026

In the 1980s, when a gay man died of AIDS, newspapers would not name the person he loved as his partner. The obituary might use…

Robot Monster

June 23, 2026

Arguably the most iconic monster in 1950s science fiction is a man in a gorilla suit wearing a deep-sea diving helmet with two antennae glued…

Roar

June 21, 2026

It was the most dangerous movie ever made. Cinematographer Jan de Bont was shooting a scene with a lioness when she tore the top of…

Before Sunrise

June 18, 2026

One of the most beloved romances in modern cinema actually happened. The woman who inspired it never got to see the film. In the fall…

The Fall

June 15, 2026

Tarsem Singh had been saving money for a wedding. When his girlfriend left him he used the money to make a movie instead. David Fincher…