Bryan Senn’s latest book, The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Films, covers every lycan-centric movie you can think of, and scads more you otherwise never would have heard of. But maybe you should — at least the ones that are good. In this Guest List for Flick Attack, Senn tracks down seven little-known were-flicks well worth your … Continue reading Guest List: Bryan Senn’s Top 7 Unsung Were-Gems
To, ahem, wrap things up from the outset: With Mummy Movies: A Comprehensive Guide, Bryan Senn does it again! Fresh from the slopes of 2022’s Ski Films, the prolific author unearths 138 mummy films in total after the applying all his filters: no shorts, no TV episodes, no hardcore porn, no fleeting appearances and no … Continue reading Mummy Movies: A Comprehensive Guide
Commented one skeptical reader on a Facebook post about Ski Films: A Comprehensive Guide, Bryan Senn’s latest book, “Ski films!?! Uhh … I’m not knocking it but I think people are running out of genres to write about??! Just an observation.” A fair observation, but one that misses the point. The majority of Senn’s bibliography … Continue reading Ski Films: A Comprehensive Guide
While I am old enough to remember true double features being advertised, I unfortunately am young enough to never have had the good fortune to attend. By “true,” I borrow the criteria used by author Bryan Senn, referring to studios’ or distributors’ intentional pairings, rather than those at the whim of a theater owner or … Continue reading “Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!”: Horror and Science Fiction Double Features, 1955-1974
Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach’s 2016 documentary, De Palma, stands among my 10 favorite films of last year, with my only criticism being that it stops after 93 minutes. Anyone else who was left wanting more (and more and more) may find that itch somewhat scratched by Douglas Keesey’s Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen: A Life … Continue reading Reading Material: Short Ends 4/30/17