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Post-WWII, Italian pop cinema was marked by a series of pulpy genre fads that saturated the market and burned themselves out quickly. Following the pepla/sword-and-sandal pictures of the 1950s, the bi...

As of this writing, nine of the top ten grossing films of all time (not adjusted for inflation) land somewhere in the category of sci-fi and/or fantasy*, but there was a time before Star Wars and Clos...

Here at Genre Grinder, Patrick Ripoll and I have had an annual tradition of taking a deep-dive into a single year in which a genre fad peaked. The first of these was our three part look at the slasher movies of 1981. If you’re very liberal with the term, about 42 slasher or at least slasher-esque films were released between January and December of that year, including classics, like George Mihalka’s My Bloody Valentine and Jeff Lieberman’s Just Before Dawn, overlooked foreign variations...

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Before VCD and DVD took over the home video market and Ringu-inspired kaidan became the export of choice, a home-grown, straight-to-video underground splatter movement reintroduced Japan to cult horro...

In the annals of legendary martial arts weapons, no sword, spear, staff, or axe can compare to the violent esoteric mechanics of the fabled “flying guillotine.” Supposedly invented during the Qing Dyn...