Category: October Horror Movie Challenge

Mad Love (USA, 1935) It can be difficult sometimes to watch a classic horror film and divorce the experience from all the remakes, pastiches and parodies that have followed. As wonderful a film as James…

Don’t Deliver Us from Evil (France, 1971) Rebellion could barely exist without repression. After all, if there were nothing against which to rebel, what would an act of rebellion entail? This was exemplified by Aleister…

Horrors of Malformed Men (Japan, 1969) As Matango demonstrated earlier this month, viewing a familiar story through the lens of another culture can turn it into something new, strange and wonderful. In the case of Horrors of…

Images (UK/USA, 1972) Mental illness is a subject that has been poorly served by horror cinema. When mentally ill characters appear, they are normally used as boogeymen, or at least as presented as creepy, volatile…

Short Night of Glass Dolls (Italy, 1971) Until recently, my exposure to gialli was limited largely to the films of Dario Argento. This had left me with certain preconceptions of what constitutes a giallo, and one…