With COVID-19 forcing humanity to lockdown, many people took advantage of the year 2020 at home to tinker with projects that had been stopped for a long time. Some even tried to improve things that were already done.
It was the case of Sylvester Stallone. Locked at home with nothing…
There’s an evil woman crawling on the DVD cover of a horror movie, promising nail-biting suspense and skin-chilling terror. But then you watch the film and discover that the evil woman isn’t even there. …
Back in the 1950s, the concept of men’s magazines was still very far from what we understand today. The first publications of the genre were harmless: Stag (created in 1937), Peek (which hit newsstands in 1938), and Laff (quite popular in the 1940s) used to publish articles about literature, music…
Have you ever heard of QAnon? According to far-right theorists, it is a secret sect formed by Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles — including Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking government officials! — who operate a global child sex trafficking ring and conspire against the future of the U.S. …
During the good ol’ days, countries with lenient copyright laws (or no copyright law at all) used to produce their own versions of Hollywood blockbusters. …
There has been a lot of criticism recently about the protagonism real-life serial killers have received in American films and documentaries. …
When George Clooney’s blockbuster “The Midnight Sky” premiered on Netflix in late 2020, many people didn’t know it was inspired by Lily Brooks-Dalton’s book “Good Morning, Midnight”. …
Argentine filmmaker Démian Rugna was the festival circuit sensation a few years ago with “Aterrados” (“Terrified” in the US), a small 2017 independent horror film shot in Buenos Aires. …
The horrifying creature was born on January 1, 1818, when small London publishing house Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones first released a new book called “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus”. It tells the story of a medical student who decides to build a creature and give it life, starting…
Today everyone knows or at least has heard of a certain vampire named Dracula. The character is so rooted in pop culture that you don’t need to have read the book of the same name, or seen any of its countless film adaptations, to know what it is about.
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Journalist, independent filmmaker and a sick person. I write about cinema at https://filmesparadoidos.blogspot.com, and in here about films, books and comics.
