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Issue 112: B-Movies

October 2022

Appointment at the Drive-In

Travis Woods·
Issue 112: B-Movies
The exultant brilliance of Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets is that, equipped with so very little, it was able to discover the truth; the tragedy of Targets, the terror of it, is that it still remains that truth.
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Episode #17: Cat People (1942)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 112: B-MoviesPodcast
For our B-Movies issue–just in time for spooky season–we’re casting an eye back toward RKO darling Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942), one of the studio’s most successful forays into low-budget, low-runtime horror, with film critic and curator Miriam Bale.
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Brain Damage and the Art of the Unsubtle

Jason Baxter·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Though Brain Damage is a B-movie through and through, it makes a lasting impression and communicates its simplistic metaphor with admirable economy
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Dreams for the Dreamers as They Are in Their Tortured Dreams

Frank Falisi·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Maybe, in order to ‘B-movie’ reality, we need to make a dream of Edward D. Wood Jr. 
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Losing My Religion

Ursula Munoz-Schaefer·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Though it doesn’t get the recognition it deserves, Pedro Almodóvar's Dark Habits remains a jewel in its singular filmmaker’s body of work.
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Your Last Defense Is Self Defense

Eric Langberg·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Siege revels in its shock value, as most B-movies do, but it’s also a movie that’s fiercely sympathetic to its gay characters in a way that feels quietly revolutionary.
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Down Within the Darksome Well

Lindsey Romain·
Issue 112: B-Movies
On Popcorn, meta-horror, film fanaticism, Dante, love, and loss of identity.
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The Shooting (1966) | Art by Dani Manning

Ride to Nowhere

Ethan Warren·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Monte Hellman's The Shooting offers a clear and present microcosm for the world’s unknowable hostility.
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Alison Wonderland

Walter Chaw·
Issue 112: B-Movies
Michael Winner's The Sentinel is an allegory for the way we come through trauma, battered and devastated, to be the guardians of our actualized selves.
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