Check out all of the posts tagged with "disease".
The infamous 1975 David Cronenberg Canadian science fiction body horror film shocker Shivers [They Came from Within] is his breakthrough third movie, following Stereo and Crimes of the Future and preceding Rabid (1977). It stars […]
Indian director Satyajit Ray’s return to film-making after illness was this 1989 adaptation of the text of Henrik Ibsen’s classic 1883 play An Enemy of the People [Ganashatru], which is concerned with health – that […]
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s austere, hauntingly beautiful 1950 French black and white film Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] tells the tale of a lonely young priest, the Curé de Ambricourt (Claude […]
Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker, who battles to save his US Southern cotton farm from man and nature, in the 1945 drama The Southerner, a beautifully heartfelt, lyrical American film from esteemed French director […]
Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1967 black and white low-budget ($65,000) black horror comedy Spider Baby is one of those rare movies that has gone obscurity to cult status, so it is memorable if only just just for that, as well as for its incredible weirdness. It […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]
Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]