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For a brief period after the death of General Francisco Franco, Spain’s mid-century fascist dictator, the nation produced reams of genre cinema that, even today, make the works of Pedro Almodóvar look like episodes of Sesame Street. Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada ‘S,’ an excellent new documentary by first-timer

Overall, the horror films of the 2000s aren’t best known for their quality. Viewed in many ways as a low point for the genre as a whole, characterized by “excess”–– in style, in the graphic nature of their violence, in their heightened tone and their often overtly misogyny–– that decade’s

While Ester Krumbachová might not be a household name for many film lovers, she deserves to be. After all, the multitalented artist is responsible for infusing classics across the Czechoslovak New New Wave with the madcap energy and visual inventiveness that makes those films so memorable, including Jan Němec’s Diamonds

Would you give up everything that makes the world worth living in to save it from almost certain destruction? Such is the conundrum at the center of The Sacrifice, the final film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky before his death from cancer at the age of only 54. Shot in exile