On its own,  New York Ninja   is plenty crazy. A bonkers-ass 1980s action movie that’s cheap and campy and utterly absurd at every turn, it’...

Popularly, Muay Thai tends to get more love than Silat, another martial art native to Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, and ...

In a career full of nutty, brutal, style-forward horror films, few titles on Dario Argento’s resume are as strange, violent, or aest...

It’s a bold choice to title a horror thriller Creepy . But with that overt wink to the audience, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa ...

A vicious gang of bikers who kill themselves in order to return from the grave even more badass. What’s not to like about the plot of D...

When it was released in 1971, the critical response to Robert Altman’s revisionist anti-western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller , was posit...

I absolutely adore C.H.U.D. , which, if you don’t know, stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, AKA homeless dudes li...

While much of the recent conversation about the work of Joel and Ethan Coen has centered around their latest movie, the recently releas...

Odds are that if you’re familiar with Lady Snowblood , it’s in reference to Quentin Tarantino ’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 . Toshiya Fujita ’s ...

Even though he’s moved away from it in recent years, focusing his eviscerating razor eye on other areas, David Cronenberg first made h...

It’s damn near impossible to accuse Scream Factory of not giving it their all for ever single one of their releases, and such is the ca...

Along with a handful of movies that includes Rad , Top Gun , and Red Dawn , David Winters’ 1986 skateboarding action drama Thrashin’ h...

You may or may not have noticed, but Mad Max: Fury Road is one of my favorite movies of the year—maybe number one, easily top five (an...

Growing up a punk rock kid in a small or at least smallish town, Penelope Spheeris’ 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilizatio...

I f there’s any doubt that stop-motion studio Laika is responsible for the most gorgeous animated features going around over the last f...

Are you in the mood to sit on your couch and watch a supernatural detective story starring Scott Bakula? If the answer to that question...

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed is the very definition of a cult movie. The 1990 horror fantasy has legions of rabid fans, a swirling mythol...

When I was a kid I absolutely loved Leviathan . And just to be clear, we’re talking about the 1989 Alien knock off, not the Leviathan f...

Zombie movies are ridiculously overdone. The marketplace is so saturated with mediocre-to-terrible films that it’s barely worth trying t...

David Cronenberg has been turning out creepy, memorable films that range from good to great for more than four decades, and one of his fa...