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Featuring: Iggy Pop, Gaspar Noé, Álex de la Iglesia | Directed by Alberto Sedano

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada S is a striking and illuminating documentary that delves deep into one of the most controversial and overlooked chapters of Spanish cinema history, the rise and fall of the “Clasificada S” film industry. Directed with both academic rigour and stylistic flair, the film acts as both a cultural autopsy and a celebration of a chaotic yet formative period in Spanish film, where sex, violence, and exploitation were both a mirror and a reaction to the nation’s shifting socio-political landscape.

The documentary explores the boom of “Clasificada S” cinema – so named for the adult-only rating these films received – in the 1970s and early 1980s, a time filled with societal and economic changes and new-found freedom following the end of Nationalist rule. These movies, often dismissed as trash or pornography, were actually...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

The Nightwatch Collection from Arrow Video

Nightwatch and Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever will be released on Blu-ray together as The Nightwatch Collection on July 22 via Arrow Video.

1994’s Nightwatch is a Danish horror-thriller written and directed by Ole Bornedal (who also helmed the 1997 American remake). Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen, and Ulf Pilgaard star.

Nightwatch special features include: commentary by Bornedal; an interview with director of photography Dan Laustsen; an appreciation by film critic Barry Forshaw; a making-of documentary; and the trailer

Bornedal also wrote and directed the 2023 sequel Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever. Coster-Waldau, Pilgaard, and Bodnia return to star with Fanny Leander Bornedal, Paprika Steen, and Sonja Richter.

Demons Are Forever...

Presented by Steven C. Miller’s Werewolves, Bloody Disgusting is looking to the stars and howling at the moon with Werewolves Week. Today, Rachel Reeves takes a bite out of seven under-seen werewolf movies you don’t want to miss.

Werewolves have long prowled the shadows of horror cinema, their natural knack for a meaty metaphor and fur-clad ferocity captivating audiences for generations. While classics like An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and The Wolf Man often lead the crowded werewolf genre pack, it also teems with lesser-known gems waiting to sink their teeth into new fans.

From campy cult favorites to atmospheric thrillers brimming with eerie allure, the enduring appeal of the werewolf metaphor lies in its raw exploration of duality—the primal versus the civilized, man versus the beast. It’s a vessel for themes of transformation, rage, addiction and identity, resonating with anyone who has wrestled with their inner demons.

Severin Films Goes Goth On June 4th With Danza MacAbra Volume 3: The Spanish Gothic Collection: "Coming June 4th! Danza MacAbra Volume 3: The Spanish Gothic Collection is the latest in our acclaimed series of Gothic Horror Blu-ray box sets and the first to focus on Spain’s tradition of Gothic Horror, which – particularly during the Franco dictatorship – was characterized by daring concepts, lush visuals, extreme sexuality, and a startling aestheic all its own. These four classic shockers from the 1970s represent the genre at its most audacious: In Necrophagous, the debut feature by writer/director Miguel Madrid, a fractured family in a crumbling castle conceals a grisly graveyard secret. The anthology film Cake Of Blood – never previously available outside of Spain – presents a quartet of supernatural tales by four young filmmakers. Hammer Films director John Gilling brings his inimitable style to the occult thriller in Cross Of The Devil.

This post contains major spoilers for "Infinity Pool."

In Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises," war veteran Jake Barnes, who has suffered an injury leaving him unable to have sex, tells a friend who's sleeping with his beloved, "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." In Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel "You Can't Go Home Again," protagonist George Webber, a novelist, returns to his hometown after writing about it in a successful book. The novel's contents have outraged his old neighbors and family, appalled by what had secretly laid within George's psyche.

In Brandon Cronenberg's latest film, "Infinity Pool," writer James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) learns about being caught between these two literary extremes in the most disturbing, humiliating, and embarrassing way possible. Now three films into his directing career, "Infinity Pool" further cements Cronenberg's auteurist signature style, his tropes, themes, and aesthetic.

Sad news from Spain. Legendary director Jesús Franco Manera, aka Jess Franco, aka Clifford Brown and a couple dozen more pseudonyms, often took from the names of the American jazz musicians he so admired, has died at the age of 82. Franco suffered a stroke last week from which he couldn’t recover.

His Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein featured a shrieking, silver-skinned Frankenstein’s monster relentlessly whipping a man and a woman tied together over a bed of spikes. It was but one of countless sublime images from the output of the most prolific Exploitation director of all-time (yes, that includes Corman). With a repertoire of over 200 titles, Franco enriched the world of Eurohorror/Exploitation by writing, directing, and scoring a vast variety of films, including masterpieces such as Female Vampire, Count Dracula, Faceless, Night Of The Bloody Judge, Eugenie De Sade, and Venus In Furs, an epic amount of art,...

by Nick Schager

What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of the latest beast-vs.-bloodsucker saga Underworld: Awakening, this week it's León Klimovsky's Spanish monster-mash-up The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman.

Largely unknown stateside except in die-hard horror circles, Paul Naschy was for decades the undisputed maestro of Spanish horror cinema, and few of his many monstrous efforts were ever quite as memorable—or as financially successful—as The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman, aka Werewolf Shadow, one of the leading man's dozen films in which he assumed the role of lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky. A dashing stud tormented by his beastly curse, Daninsky finds himself forced to face off against an evil bloodsucker in León Klimovsky's rollicking B-movie, which—after an intro in which two doctors debate...

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

Hosted by Mick Garris | Written and Directed by Angel Agudo

Since the introduction of the Discovery Screen as part of the London Film4 Frightfest documentaries have made up a great part of the infamous horror festival. From I Think We’re Alone Now to Best Worst Movie, some of my all-time favourite documentaries have screened in the darkened depths of what Frightfest fans have dubbed the “disco screen.” This years offering, The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry, tells the story of the legendary Jacinto Molina, aka Paul Naschy, one of Europe’s most beloved horror icons who, despite not becoming a mainstream name, is hailed as one of the true horror cinema greats, right up there with Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

Hosted by Us director Mick Garris, the film spans the entire life of Naschy, from his childhood in war torn Spain,...

After a short delay the 5th issue of Creepy*Images is now available!!! The new issue has again 64 pages (14,8 x 21 cm), is – like always – complete printed in full color and high quality and features rare and hard to finde movie memorabilia of the following movies: Jean Rollin’s Grapes Of Death / Pesticide Complete German lobby set and poster George Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead Complete French lobby set and both posters The Rebirth Of Terror Special (8 pages) about the German horror movie memorabilia from the 60s Sergio Martino’s All Colors Of The Dark Complete Spanish lobby set and poster Amando de Ossorio’s Ghostship Of The Blind Dead Complete German lobby set and poster León Klimovsky’s Werwolf Vs. Vampire Women / Werewolf’S Shadow Complete Italian fotobusta set for this classic with Paul Naschy For further information, example pages and orders, please visit www.creepy-images.com Related Posts:Book...

There's something special about saucy European sleaze horror in the 70's.

That unique blend of morally bankrupt, American potboiler pulp noir attitude combined with a distinct haute couture informed Euro-sexuality and sensationally stylized level of graphic, phantasmagorical violence just speaks to me. I worship Dario Argento, swoon over Sergio Martino, bite my lip at the name Leon Klimovsky, click my heels over Antonio Bido, pump my fists at the mere mention of Lucio Fulci…yes, I love these men and the maniacal works of misbehaving, lush, junk-shock cinema they once slung (and in some cases, continue to sling).

I've seen and own so many fantastic Italian, Spanish and French genre films from this period that I consider myself something of a connoisseur, a man who knows and loves his Eurotrash and can differentiate between a really good lurid treat, a middling one and one that couldn't cut the mustard in...

Fango got the details on the fourth annual South African Horrorfest, which gets underway October 30 and stretches until November 6 at The Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town). As always, the fest (organized by Fango scribe Paul Blom) is a mix of old, new, rare, indie and cult films, many of them making their debuts on African screens.

Yearly traditions remain intact, as there will be a silent classic with live concert accompaniment, a Halloween dress-up and the Shadow Realm short film collection. While screening times and exact dates have yet to be announced, the full lineup consists of:

• Shadow Realm Short Film Collection: A variety of horror minimovies from all around the globe, screened in three feature-length blocks on Oct. 30, Nov. 1 and Nov. 6.

• Last House On The Left: The infamous Wes Craven shocker about two girls kidnapped and tortured to death in the woods and the violent justice that awaits their killers.