The popular concept of the motion picture vampire has, over a hundred years and thousands of movies, become a largely homogenized mythology, based on Eastern European folklore, a couple of bestselling...

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There’s a well-known phenomenon where studios make competing motion pictures with suspiciously similar premises. Whether the similarities were a coincidence or a case of direct rivalry, audiences were...

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN JAPAN, WARS RAGED, ANGRY SPIRITS STALKED THE COUNTRYSIDE, AND VILLAGERS HID FROM MURDEROUS YOKAI IN THE TALL REEDS…Japanese cinema had an international breakthrough in the 1950s an...

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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...