Defiant Success

As is often the case with the passage of time, the perception of certain things is bound to alter. What was once taboo is now commonplace, a...

You know how sci-fi movies from the 1950s served as an allegory for the Red Scare and the Cold War? That lurking fear of "the enemy...

There's no denying that Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep  has an...unusual premise. Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy fighting off a mu...

For years, there has been speculation that Christian Nyby's The Thing from Another World  wasn't directed by Nyby but rather by prod...

There's a great establishing shot early in Joseph Ruben's The Stepfather  that helps set up what the viewer is getting into. After f...

There's no denying that certain genres apply to certain metaphors better than others. Horror in general is the most common genre up for ...

You know how some actors just need the right script to showcase their talents? Sometimes it involves playing against type, other times the r...

Well, I never thought I'd reach this milestone. Fifteen years of running this modest blog. (In fairness, I never thought I'd make it...

From the first moment Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) laid eyes on Bart Tare (John Dall) in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy , their fates ...

Frankly, I'm surprised to have been going at this for as long as I have, what with Defiant Success's fifteenth (!) anniversary in Au...