Thirty-five years ago, Jim Varney’s Halloween treat scarred a generation and killed a multi-picture deal, but it still doesn’t get enough credit for laying the modern groundwork of kid-somewhat-friendly horror.
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Orson Welles’s low-budget 1951 adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is one of his most ingenious pictures, a threadbare, ramshackle, discombobulated production that he all but willed into greatness.
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David Byrne’s characteristically idiosyncratic vision of smalltown America now feels like a thesis statement for the solo career he would soon be embarking on.
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The notorious experimental arthouse horror film returns to theaters by way of a surprising restoration.
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Between Brian De Palma and Mike Flanagan, three other filmmakers made flawed but fascinating attempts to bring Stephen King’s horror classic to the screen.
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The cult favorite that marked Tom Hanks’ directorial debut is best remembered for its eponymous song and beloved late songwriter, even if he missed out at winning the Oscar statuette.
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Made 50 years ago, Charles B. Pierce’s proto-slasher straddles the line between docudrama and horror.
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As the premiere of his granddaughter Zoe’s Netflix limited series approaches, we look back at Elia Kazan’s truncated version of Steinbeck’s classic novel.
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Ben Stiller’s absurdist comedy offered much-needed escapism for a grieving nation 25 years ago, though its timing weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks came with a variety of complications.
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The convicted criminal, later a successful crime writer and filmmaker, was the subject of the retrospective at the 2026 San Sebastián Film Festival.
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Bob Fosse’s 1974 biopic of the groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce is a prickly, brutal, occasionally frustrating, yet formally impressive work.
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To mark his centenary, a look at the dramatic career highs and lows of gravel-voiced ’50s movie star.
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