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Highlights of events taking place on the Maltese islands in the coming days

The Swedish director had the ability to explore the depths of the human psyche

Gabriel Theis looks back at Wes Craven's 'The Last House On The Left' and its relationship to Ingmar Bergman's 'The Virgin Spring'.

On what would have been horror legend Wes Craven's 84th birthday, we celebrate with this list of our favorite Craven films.

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Here was Bergman, director of such sombre film classics as The Seventh Seal (1957). What could he possibly have in common with Ang Lee, director of 2003’s Hulk?

The acclaimed author on her post-Covid novel Lapvona, the influence of Ingmar Bergman and the Brothers Grimm, and the draw of England in the 90s for her next book

If you combine the stories of “Little Red Riding Hood” and Last House on the Left (1972), and transposed the byproduct to medieval Sweden, you’d have Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring (1960). Indeed, the Wes Craven film was consciously modeled on Bergman’s effort, lightly nudging the tale away from idealization by associating the action with the emerging and dangerous freedom of the late 60s and early 70s. Bergman takes the opposite tack, bending toward melodrama.

From Birth of a Nation to Salò,the only better pairing with a movie than popcorn is a good scandal.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of "Scream 2," directed by Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, and Liev Schreiber, with appearances by Jada Pinkett Smith, Omar Epps, Heather Graham, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joshua Jackson, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, and Laurie Metcalf.