Author Spotlight

Samm Deighan

Samm Deighan is a film historian and programmer, the author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, and the editor of Revolution in 35 mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse. She hosts the podcast Eros + Massacre.

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Jean Rollin, Poet of the Fantastique

This French art-horror master shocked audiences with a string of sexy vampire movies often centered on complex female friendships and women-ruled fantasy worlds.

By Samm Deighan

The Italian Art of Violence

With their virtuosic celebrations of death, giallo films reflect the air of paranoia and fear that haunted Italian society in the 1960s and ’70s, a period when the country was undergoing dramatic, violent changes.

By Samm Deighan