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Flesh Gordon

April 23, 2026

It began as a pornographic film. That is not the most interesting thing about it. FLESH GORDON (1974) was shot as early as 1971 by…

The Peasants

April 23, 2026

The studio in Kyiv had to be shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. The painters were evacuated. When the studio reopened as fighting eased in…

Lifeforce

April 21, 2026

In 1985, Cannon Films gave Tobe Hooper $25 million, a novel about space vampires, and what he later described as the freedom to make a…

Blue My Mind

April 20, 2026

The mermaid has always been male fantasy made flesh – and fin. This film twists the fantasy into something biting and precise. Lisa Brühlmann’s 2017…

Escape from Tomorrow

April 17, 2026

Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid…

Angel

April 14, 2026

The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted…

Eyes of Fire

April 13, 2026

Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.…

The Endless

April 11, 2026

Most cult horror gives you obvious villains. THE ENDLESS gives you people you’d almost want to hang with – warm, communal, strangely at peace -…

Starfish

April 10, 2026

A young woman, a dead friend, cassette tapes, creatures arriving from somewhere beyond. STARFISH is a film about the end of the world. It’s also…

Ciao! Manhattan

April 9, 2026

The film started shooting in 1967. By the time it wrapped in 1972, its star was dead. CIAO! MANHATTAN began as a loose, Warhol-adjacent project…

Times Square

April 8, 2026

In 1979, Allan Moyle took his cameras into Times Square before the city cleaned it up. What he captured – the grindhouses, the neon, the…