Contents War May Be Hell, But a Sequel Is Purgatory:

Thematic Combat
With Battle Royale II: Requiem

by Emily Intravia




Love, Loss, and Astounding Growth in The Incredible Shrinking
Man

and Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman by Jessie Robie

"Oh Hi, Movie!" The Unironic Aesthetics of "So
Bad It's
Good" In

Tommy Wiseau's The Room


by John Semley

The Story Behind Jim Wynorski's Munchie
Strikes Back

OR Paracinema's Parents' Manual for Little Billy's
Question:

"Why
is the TV puppet telling me to vote Democrat?"

by Jonathan Plombon




The Serial Killer's Mind: Comparing and Contrasting
the Male Psyches in

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

by Brantley Palmer



Loss and Hope - The Past and the Future in The Road Warrior

by Todd Garbarini

Contents In Space, What You (Almost) Hear is Ka-ching!: The Genius Film Marketing and Knuckleheaded Toy Merchandising of Alien
by Todd Garbarini

The Death and Life of Cinema: An interview with Joe Dante

by Brian Saur

Emanuelle, Transnationality and the Cannibalisation of Cultures


by Ben Buckingham

How Hannibal Lecter Helped me Through a Difficult Time in my Life

by Jessie Robie

Australia's Hollywood Pioneers and those who followed

by Bruce J. Patience

Devastating Color: Horror and magic in Herschell Gordon Lewis's The Wizard of Gore

by Madelon Hoedt

Plus much more...

Contents Melodrama in Fast Motion:
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls As Not Just Strange but Scathing
by Adam Blomquist

Pink Socks and Monsters: Excess in Andrzej Żuławski's Possession
by Todd Garbarini


Film Fanatical: A Conversation with Author Danny Peary by
Brian Saur


Robert Downey, The Fool Prince by
Brett Taylor