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A critical analysis of the 21st-century fascination with the past, from horror films to haunted music. By William Burns.
This is the true history of women directing horror movies. Trailer by Heidi Honeycutt and Mo Moshaty.
Exhaustive overview of Britain’s ‘video nasty’ culture, an era as defining as it is contentious with ramifications still felt today. By David Kerekes & David Slater
Updated edition of the critically acclaimed study, revealing the cross currents between occultism and film. By Nikolas Schreck.
The untold story of the world’s most famous X-rated star who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door. By Jared Stearns.
The first serious critical evaluation of American shot-on-video horror cinema. By Vincent A. Albarano.
Explores a cult classic film series that stands among the most fascinating and enduring of all time. By Chris Alexander.
An in-depth overview of Nigel Kneale’s 1976 Folk Horror anthology television series, Beasts. By Andrew Screen.
Read the forbidden predictions of the Amazing Criswell! Unmasked and revealed for the first time! By Edwin Lee Canfield.
Explores the seductive premise that visiting memorials to past tragedy will ultimately lead us to become better versions of ourselves.
Challenges the misconceptions of a ghoulish practice through the eyes of a self confessed dark tourist.
If you’ve ever seen the original Mad Max movie you might recall the scene where a mechanic is tuning the vehicle that the titular Max will soon be driving. “Last of the V8s,” the mechanic purrs. Well, Headpress is not unlike that engine in a world gone mad. It’s independent, ravaged by landscape, but it motors on, one of a kind, like the last of the V8s. With Headpress you are on that journey.
A small sampling of the images and related content in CHRIS ALEXANDER’s book of cinema memoir, reviews and interviews, Art! Trash! Terror!
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