Christoph Huber

(Click to enlarge) Kill Baby, Kill Time to expose the greatest conspiracy of contemporary cinema: Although film historians and critics have spent decades trying to conceal the truth, the auteur theory was really invented for the vindication of Mario Bava, an Italian maestro of the macabre, who mostly made disreputable......

As Japanese scientists have probably proven by now, there are few sights in cinema more awesome than a man in a rubber suit stomping his way through a tiny model set of Tokyo. How else to explain that the titular giant lizard of Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla (1954) immediately became a......

Outdrawing the Spaghetti Western as the prime popular example of Italian baroque in the late 1960s, for a decade the “Giallo” thriller was the star in the crown of the nation’s remarkably rich genre cinema. It remains its most cultishly revered. As with the French Série Noire, a ubiquitous crime-paperback......