Author Ian Olney

2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Operazione paura (Kill, Baby… Kill!, 1966), the film widely considered to be horror maestro Mario Bava’s finest. Set in 1907, the story opens with a coroner, Dr...

Nowhere is the essence of Barbara Steele’s cult appeal as the “Queen of Horror” clearer than in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Riccardo Freda, 1962). An overripe, decidedly kinky Gothic melodrama, the film revolves...

Hollywood never knew what to do with Gloria Grahame. When Grahame’s movie career stalled in the early 1960s, she had only been in the business for fifteen years. In that short time, she had appeared in a string...

Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a far more interesting film than its middling reputation suggests. A spy story about an American physicist recruited by the US government in 1944 to prevent the Third Rei...

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), a herald of Hollywood’s ‘70s renaissance and lament for the death of the ‘60s counterculture, is a movie famously full of moments powered by popular music of the era. No doubt ...