In the mid ‘00s, US horror cinema was partially dominated by studio remakes that cranked up the originals’ nastier aspects. The work of genre mavericks from the 1970s was in demand for re-evaluation.

Extreme music is a tough walnut, because what makes music extreme in the first place is entirely relative. The Who could, in some respects, be more extreme than Japanese noise band Merzbow, just as ...

Something I’ve noticed in my long musings and writing on extreme horror is that the extreme and the arthouse seem to go hand in hand. This dates back to the original grindhouse theaters, where ...