A blog with a madhouse fanaticism for genre film making at its finest and most innovative, Five Fingers of Celluloid explores genre cinema through lists of five essential films. The blog is for manic cineastes who share a ferocious hunger for genre film makers who are constantly recreating and resculpting the familiar landscapes of horror, gangster film, western, screwball comedy, hitman film, spy thriller, musical, or kung fu film. Going into the world of genre film is travelling through a rabbit hole of the familiar and the alien; into the carefully calculated gangster films of Jean-Pierre Melville, the blood-soaked heroic kung fu flicks of Chang Cheh, the gun ballets of John Woo, the brazen bossy blaxploitations of Pam Grier, the playful Ealing comedies, the peacock-plushed Technicolor Hammer horrors, the suspended existential horrors of Kyoshi Kurosawa, the bleak savage westerns of Sergio Corbucci, and the colorful fever-dream yakuza films of Seijun Suzuki.
