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, ...

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, ...

Hotel: I stay at the British School at Rome, which is basically like living in a Muriel Spark novel circa 1955. Restaurant: ...

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 ...