Born from necessity and often relegated to the lower half of double features, B-movies were typically low-budget, quickly produced genre films that rarely aimed for critical acclaim. Studio executives ...

The film hyperbolically pushes the alarm button, all to push OUR buttons. But that last element — the fact that it does take itself seriously — turned out to be the bait that hooked the critics. What ...

As much as I wish it was, today’s subject is not a famous comedian’s 2007 vanity project in which he plays an animated bumblebee trying to get with a human woman. We’re talking, instead, about the B ...

Zombie cinema thrives on budget constraints. Strip away the CGI and blockbuster gloss, and you're left with the true spirit of the undead: goopy, grotesque, and punk to the marrow. George A. Romero ...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American film industry faced a crisis. Theater attendance plummeted, forcing thousands of venues to close. Major studios with their own theater chains ...