Slasher movies: where the genre came from, in 8 films
Before the masked killers, there was a mystery on an island, an Italian puzzle and a caterer.
Before the masked killers, there was a mystery on an island, an Italian puzzle and a caterer.
Eight 1980s horror films from outside the studio system: a lost director, a banned label, a borrowed bestseller.
Arthouse films are named after the theaters that showed them. Eight, from a 1929 surrealist dream to recent festival winners.
A 2013 Library of Congress study found 70% of American silent features are lost. These eight survived, and still play.
A grindhouse was a theater before it was a genre. Eight films from its cheap end, from a lawsuit to a censorship fight.
Shadows, cigarette smoke and a detective who already knows how this ends.
B never meant bad. It meant the second film on the bill, and the people who made them had more freedom than anyone in Hollywood.
Flops, drive-in fillers and films nobody reviewed. Then somebody kept showing them.
A fertiliser salesman, a gorilla in a diving helmet and Santa on Mars. The bad movies that outlived the good ones.
They saw something they could not explain, said so on the record, and never took it back.
A Farhadi marriage drama, a Belgian backwoods nightmare, an amnesia romance, a wrongful conviction documentary, a Tunisian noir, and a Mami Wata horror story, all new on Relay this week.
A survival game show, a Bollywood classic that won two major awards, a Fantastic Fest-winning horror anthology, a real embassy siege, a Somali love story, and a black-and-white dramedy shot for $7,000, all new on Relay this week.