Captive Eye
In conjunction with it's popular print magazine, Diabolique offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of int'l horror, sci-fi, and fantasy cinema, past and present. Each podcast is presented in a compelling style that both stimulates and entertains. Each podcast features special guests, established film scholars, writers, and journalists. The show is produced by people who love the Horror Movie Genre and are dedicated to bringing it to the world. New episodes added regularly, so get some popcorn... relax and enjoy the show!
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2017
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
On episode 46 of Captive Eye, David Kleiler, Jean-Paul Ouellette and Steve Head consider the enduring qualities of James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and bring to light some rarely talked ab…
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, adapted from the novel by Kobo Abe, is fascinating and disturbing.
The film’s protagonist is a man trapped by villagers, in a dilapidated house at …
Peeping Tom (1960)
When Martin Scorsese brought Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom back from its longtime purgatory, the word on the street was that it was a piece of transgressive cinema from an acclaimed director, *before*…
The Terminator (1984)
Someday someone will make the definitive documentary about the making of The Terminator (1984). Until then we’ll have the periodic cast and crew interviews. Until then we’ll have their stories.
On th…
Village of the Damned (1960)
Earlier this year, when Shout Factory announced their Blu-ray release of John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned, I can’t say I was enthusiastic about the news. It mostly served to remind me how much …
Roman Polanski’s The Tenant (1976)
The Tenant isn’t the first film I think of when the name Roman Polanski is mentioned. The director’s 1976 film strikes me more as a curiosity. Does its central character, Trelkovsky, out of all the c…
David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001)
Mulholland Drive is perhaps a unique sort of puzzle—one that’s different upon every deconstruction. Conversationally you can take the film apart and put it back together and maybe you’ll come up with…
David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979)
The Brood entertains the notion that psychotherapy can be dangerous. It doesn’t merely result in a changing of one’s mind, it can also result in a changing of one’s body—disturbingly so. And woe be t…
Dressed to Kill (1980)
From a technical strand-point, Brian de Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller Dressed to Kill is top notch. His fascination with the techniques of filmmaking makes the film a treasure trove for cinephi…
Escape from New York (1981)
Time has been good to Escape from New York. From the cinema netherworld of the early 80s, John Carpenter’s dystopian adventure prospered on home-video, spawned a sequel, and has been emblemized by ci…
Quentin Tarantino’s DEATH PROOF (2007)
Much has been written about Quentin Tarantino’s influences – the Spaghetti Westerns of Leone and Corbucci; the French New wave, particularly Goddard’s Band of Outsiders and Breathless; and, more sign…
Nicolas Roeg’s DON’T LOOK NOW (1973)
Steve Head and David Kleiler discuss Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973), a haunting supernatural thriller, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. The film is renowned for its innovative edi…
The Orson Welles Roundtable – OTHELLO and F FOR FAKE
Peter Keough joins David and Steve for a round-table discussion on Orson Welles, one of cinema’s original independent filmmakers. Two of the films they focus on are Othello (1952) and F for Fake (197…
George Sluizer’s The Vanishing
What would you do if you and your significant other stopped at a gas station while traveling, and your significant other suddenly vanished without trace? That is the premise for George Sluizer’s haun…
David Cronenberg’s Scanners
On this episode of the Diabolique Webcast, David Klieler and Steve Head consider the career of director David Cronenberg; with particular emphasis on his 1981 film Scanners, which has recently been r…
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
Join Steve Head and David Kleiler for a discussion on Jim Jarmusch’s ultra-cool vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston. The film is available on blu-ray, Augu…
Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Mania
On the eve of beginning production on his new film, Blood Mania, the Godfather of Gore Herschell Gordon Lewis talks with us about his career, the state of the film industry and his relationship with …
Thirty-Five Years of Nosferatu the Vampyre
Thirty-five years after it’s initial release, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog’s haunting tone poem of death and loneliness is as potent today as it was in 1979. To celebrate the film’s recent ar…
The Val Lewton Legacy
He believed in peace in darkness, friendship in solitude, and for some of his characters, freedom in death; even admitting to an RKO executive that the message of The Seventh Victim (1943) was, in fa…
Saving The Wicker Man (1973)
Giving credit where it’s due, cinephiles must thank Liz Coffey, an archivist at the Harvard Film Archive, for saving the only known-to-exist 35mm print of the “middle version” of The Wicker Man. Its …