1970s neo-noir thrillers always carried a jagged edge. The genre had shifted from shadowy backlot black-and-white mysteries to gritty, on-location films drenched in the sleaze and decay of America’s ...

Gialli, or Italian mystery-thrillers, have long been a curiosity of mine, but in the past year they’ve become an outright obsession. Born out of a German subgenre called krimi (crime), the giallo ...

The ‘70s are known for perfecting the slasher formula with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, rightfully securing their place as all-timers. But there were some awkward steps along the way, ...

These are three films very much of that time, nearly a half-century ago (Klute was first released in theaters on June 23, 1971), and yet they're three films - about a woman harassed and dehumanized by ...

The film opens with the grisly murders of three Italian army officials, the third and bloodiest showing us the unconscious victim placed on a railway line and decapitated by an oncoming train. On the ...

In Mr. Scorsese, Martin Scorsese says that his mentor John Cassavetes told him he wasted a year making his second film, ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to CNN anchor and author Jake Tapper about his new thriller, "All the Demons Are Here." It's a story set in 1970s America. Some of the names from the 1970s that roll by in Jake ...