Strand Archive

Perhaps no other genre has as dense and specific a lexicon of imagery as the giallo. Gialli are defined by a set of trademark images: black leather gloves, glinting knife blades, spiral staircases, black cats, bottles of J&B scotch, extreme closeups of eyes. These ...Read More

One of the odder and more curiously persistent subgenres in cinema history is the Afterlife Film. The Afterlife Film typically depict the death of a caddish fellow, who in life was too materialistic, or overly focused on his career, or perhaps never fully appreciated ...Read More