Rabbit Hole

YouTube channels, magazines, archives and cult corners about cinema. One link opens another.

• Every Frame a Painting · YouTube channel
  Short video essays on how editing, framing and sound make meaning. The channel ended in 2016 and is still the reference point.
• Letterboxd · Social film diary
  Log what you watch, make lists, and get lost in other people's lists.
• UbuWeb Film & Video · Online archive
  A free archive of avant-garde and experimental cinema and artists' films.
• Nerdwriter1 · YouTube channel
  Video essays that start from a single scene, painting or sentence and take apart art and cinema.
• The Grindhouse Cinema Database · Wiki
  A community encyclopedia documenting exploitation and grindhouse films, their posters and their makers.
• Senses of Cinema · Online journal
  An independent film journal published since 1999, known for its long director profiles.
• Lessons from the Screenplay · YouTube channel
  Breaks films down through their screenplays: how character and structure are built.
• Prelinger Archives · Film archive
  A vast collection of ephemeral films: advertising, educational and industrial shorts.
• MUBI Notebook · Online magazine
  MUBI's publication for criticism, interviews and essays.
• Thomas Flight · YouTube channel
  Takes on film language, genre and viewing habits through philosophical questions.
• Temple of Schlock · Blog
  A blog full of newspaper clippings on forgotten B-movies and the history of movie theaters.
• Sight and Sound · Magazine
  The BFI's magazine and home of the once-a-decade greatest films of all time poll.
• Like Stories of Old · YouTube channel
  Calm, thoughtful essays about what films have to say about life.
• Internet Archive: Feature Films · Film archive
  An archive of public-domain feature films you can watch for free.
• Film Comment · Magazine
  Film at Lincoln Center's critical magazine, published since 1962.
• Folding Ideas · YouTube channel
  Dan Olson's long-form criticism on media, culture and film.
• The Criterion Current · Online publication
  Criterion's essays, restoration notes and directors' Top 10 lists.
• Patrick (H) Willems · YouTube channel
  Witty but serious essays on blockbusters, genre and the film industry.
• RogerEbert.com · Criticism archive
  Home to thousands of Roger Ebert's reviews and a new generation of critics.
• The House of Tabula · YouTube channel
  Lewis and Luiza Bond's channel, formerly The Cinema Cartography. Maps directors and movements in a slow, poetic voice.
• Cahiers du Cinéma · Magazine
  The magazine where the French New Wave was born, published since 1951.
• Letterboxd: grindhouse listeleri · User lists
  Hundreds of lists on exploitation and grindhouse cinema. The rabbit's tail.
• Bleeding Skull! · Review site
  Digs up low-budget, shot-on-video horror and oddities nobody remembers.
• Severin Films · Restoration label
  An independent label that pulls forgotten horror, exploitation and Eurocult films out of the vaults and restores them.
• Shock Cinema · Magazine
  A long-running magazine with fanzine roots, covering cult, independent and overlooked films.
• American Genre Film Archive · Film archive
  A nonprofit archive that preserves 35mm prints of American genre cinema and puts them back on screens.
• Midnight Eye · Online archive
  An English-language site of criticism and interviews devoted to Japanese cinema. No longer updated, but a huge archive.
• Something Weird Video · Video label
  Mike Vraney's legendary label that brought nudies, sexploitation and strange shorts back into the light.
• Rue Morgue · Magazine
  A horror culture magazine out of Toronto: film, music, books and art.
• Mondo Digital · Review site
  An old-school site reviewing home video releases of Eurocult, giallo and cult films.
• Vinegar Syndrome · Restoration label
  A label that scans lost or neglected exploitation and genre films from the negative and restores them.
• Hysteria Lives! · Fan site
  A long-standing British fan site devoted to slasher films.
• Diabolique Magazine · Magazine
  A magazine publishing long, in-depth writing on horror and cult cinema.
• Grindhouse Releasing · Restoration label
  Founded by Bob Murawski and Sage Stallone, the label behind restorations of films like Cannibal Holocaust.
• Spectacular Optical · Publisher
  Kier-La Janisse's press, publishing books and writing on horror and genre cinema.
• Fangoria · Magazine
  The legendary horror and special effects magazine, published since 1979.
• DVD Drive-In · Review site
  Reviews DVD and Blu-ray releases of drive-in, B and exploitation films.
• The Criterion Collection · YouTube channel
  Criterion's official channel: director interviews, restorations behind the scenes and the Closet Picks videos.
• SWDb: Spaghetti Western Database · Encyclopedia
  A huge database of Italian westerns: credits, cast and reviews.
• Exploitflix · Poster archive
  An archive collecting posters and credits of retro B-movies, slashers and exploitation films.
• Rarefilmm · Film archive
  The Cave of Forgotten Films: rare and forgotten films gathered in one watchable place.
• The Quentin Tarantino Archives · Community wiki
  A community wiki and news portal on the Tarantino universe and the exploitation cinema that feeds it.
• Canuxploitation! · Database
  A comprehensive guide to Canadian B-movies, cult and horror cinema.
• Night Flight Plus · Streaming platform
  A subscription platform for cult titles from Night Flight, the legendary 1980s late-night show.
• Kino Cult · Streaming platform
  Kino Lorber's platform for restored cult and B-movie classics.