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Jan 29, 2025 | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Alex Borkowski
Science didn’t invent dream-recording machines or brain decoders before sexploitation legend Russ Meyer’s death in 2004, so we’ll never truly know what zany daydreams he held in his mind. As spicy consolation prizes, though, the scandalous triple-feature of Vixen! (1968), Supervixens (1975), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979), newly restored by Severin Films in collaboration with The Russ Meyer Charitable Trust, will do nicely.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Alex Borkowski
So many great Vietnam War movies exist that inviting one more into your home is asking a lot. But what about a Vietnam War movie where coconut leaves are lethal weapons, the big bad dresses like Dr. Evil and titters like Homer Simpson, and practically every fight scene qualifies for kung-fu cinema’s all-timer canon?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Alex Borkowski
In a just society, a comic book about the spawn of an English witch and an archduke of Hell who grows up to be a monster-hunting, Nazi-punching detective would be a worldwide smash. We do not live in that society. We live in one where readers like their heroes squeezed into spandex underoos. Even among dyed-in-the-wool comic devotees, Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola in the early 1990s, remains a popular indie property yet to break out in the mainstream.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Amos Kwon |Alex Borkowski
Even if you’re a driving enthusiast who prefers naturally aspirated gas cars with rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual transmission, something in you changes a little when you become middle-aged. You start to appreciate comfort, space, all-wheel-drive traction, and even a good rapid-fire slushbox automatic transmission. Of course, when it’s all wrapped in slinky sheet metal that makes everyone’s heads turn, that’s even better. The sport-luxury coupe space is a tough pond to swim in.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Alex Borkowski |Andy Crump
Hard to believe it’s been 24 years since Russell Crowe uttered the iconic line “Are you not entertained?” in Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical drama Gladiator. The sequel, out November 22, will determine whether Paul Mescal’s beefy hamhocks and Pedro Pascal’s award-winning smile can capture lightning in a bottle for Scott again, following two box-office missteps, 2021’s The Last Duel and 2023’s Napoleon.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Alex Borkowski |Andy Crump
Although these days you can’t mention Junji Ito without a comics snob rolling their eyes at you, this wasn’t always the case. With Ito’s cosmic horror series Uzumaki finally getting a television adaption from Adult Swim (which has sparked plenty of controversy in its own right), there’s never been a better time to explore the world of Japanese horror.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Alex Borkowski
As horror’s current new wave crested in 2014, people unaccustomed to taking the genre seriously found themselves forced to. But then horror started taking itself seriously, and if there’s one way to suck the air out of a provocative narrative movement, it’s navel gazing. Being “serious” isn’t a crime, and horror remains a big-top circus with room for every creative sensibility.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Alex Borkowski |Andy Crump
Horror movies have their place, but the experience of playing a horror game just hits different. They’re intensely immersive: You’ve got the stress of resource management, the overwhelming sensation that you aren’t in control, and the exhilaration of beating overwhelming odds. And who could forget all the jump scares? To celebrate the changing of the seasons, I’ve rounded up some of the best horror games you can play right now—a mix of modern classics and retro favorites.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Andy Crump |Alex Borkowski
If it’s October and if the trades are running reports of audiences fainting, walking out, and throwing up during public screenings for a buzzy horror movie, it can mean only one thing: Wake up, honey, Damien Leone dropped another Terrifier sequel. Bulletins like these are spiritual xeroxes of articles about Terrifier 2‘s premiere in 2022, which alleged the movie provoked severe gastrointestinal distress in its viewers. So why should Terrifier 3 be any different?
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
coolmaterial.com | Alex Borkowski |Andy Crump
Skip to Content Share Article Share through your preferred social media platform: Vampires are the perfect designated hitters of the monster universe. The folk legend of a corpse compelled to rise again at night to feast on the blood of the living was popularized in western Europe by the English author John Polidori’s The Vampyre in 1819 before being cemented by Bram Stoker in 1897 with the publication of Dracula.
