A look back at Narciso Ibanez Serrador's haunting 1976 cult horror movie Who Can Kill a Child?   Spanish Director Narciso Ibanez Serrador directed only two films, The House that Screamed , 1968, and Who Can Kill a Child  (AKA Island of the Damned ), 1976. The former is an influential high-point of the horror genre, the latter one of its masterpieces. Both were smash hits in Spain, but were heavily cut and badly distributed in the US and the rest of Europe. The Uruguayan-born

A long-form article about Roman Polanksi's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby, and how it relates to collectivsm, conformity and his experience as a Jew during the Second World War.

Penguin's new edition of Night of the Hunter Last Summer Penguin launched their Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series, and there are now twenty-nine titles in the collection. The livery features the same green as that of their Penguin Crime series, launched 75 years ago, though they are in the larger and less elegantly proportioned, less pocket and bag friendly B1 paperback format. The new series uses the same colour-scheme as the Romek Marber   covers of the 1960s, bla

A reappraisal of Louis Malle's 1963 film The Fire Within and its source nove, and how the film relates to various philosopies of sucide, in particular those of Schopenhauer and EM Cioran. Also discusses henri Bresson's 1964 movie Mouchette.