Budd Wilkins
Budd Wilkins's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Blue Thunder (1983)
78%
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“It’s that rare beast: a rollicking action film with a subversive political agenda.” –
Slant Magazine
May 6, 2026
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Black Christmas (1974)
73%
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“Based loosely on an urban legend, Black Christmas just may be the perfect antidote to the saccharine sweetness of most Christmastime fare. ” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 29, 2026
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Tih Minh (1918)
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“Louis Feuillade’s Tih-Minh is a narratively sprawling, superbly visualized, and consistently action-packed early example of the spy thriller.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 9, 2026
Full Review
Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
67%
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“Jesus Franco’s distaff Dracula riff cheekily upends the conventions of vampire cinema.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 26, 2026
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Salem's Lot (1979)
87%
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“Salem’s Lot is a masterclass in televisual terror.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 24, 2026
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Blue Sunshine (1976)
88%
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“The film delivers a deft fusion of horror-movie tropes, social satire, and cult-film weirdness.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 5, 2026
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
67%
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“Roy Ward Baker’s Scars of Dracula marked a turning point in Hammer’s Dracula series.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 19, 2025
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O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
57%
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“This is one of Robert Altman’s most doggedly intertextual films.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 17, 2025
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Dust Devil (1992)
50%
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“Richard Stanley’s Dust Devil is a dark fable about souls in extremis who are half in love with easeful death.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 6, 2025
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The Pied Piper (1985)
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“The Pied Piper is a pitch-black fairy tale of greed, corruption, duplicity, and betrayal.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 24, 2025
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Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1967)
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“The film eventually morphs into something of a monster rally.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 25, 2025
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Danger: Diabolik (1968)
65%
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“The plot of the film is almost secondary to its fabulous set pieces.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 30, 2025
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The Stuff (1985)
68%
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“Larry Cohen’s film is a barbed satire of 1980s consumer culture.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 29, 2025
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The Glass Ceiling (1971)
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“The film is a stylish and sexy exemplar of the Euro-thriller.” –
Slant Magazine
May 26, 2025
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The Savage Eye (1960)
86%
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“The Savage Eye is a New Yorker’s vision of the City of Angels, unflattering and unforgiving. ” –
Slant Magazine
May 26, 2025
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Morgiana (1972)
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“Throughout Morgiana, Juraj Herz makes generous use of fisheye lenses, giving almost every scene an off-kilter, disorienting quality” –
Slant Magazine
May 26, 2025
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Butterfly Kiss (1995)
75%
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“The film is brutal and uncompromising.” –
Slant Magazine
May 26, 2025
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Up! (1976)
78%
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“Motorpsycho and Up! represent two very different tendencies within the Meyer filmography.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 23, 2025
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Motorpsycho (1965)
80%
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“Motorpsycho and Up! represent two very different tendencies within the Meyer filmography.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 23, 2025
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
88%
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“Lucio Fulci’s 1972 film is a haunting examination of guilt, innocence, and repression.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 21, 2025
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Supervixens (1975)
49%
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“Supervixens pushes past the absurd and straight into the realm of pure surrealism.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 10, 2025
Full Review
Night Moves (1975)
78%
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“Arthur Penn’s Night Moves is one of the great revisionist noirs, taking its place alongside Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. ” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 25, 2025
Full Review
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
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“Beneath all the japery, there are some serious matters that are being sent up.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 18, 2025
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The Golden Fern (1963)
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“Jiří Weiss’s film is a haunting fable about arrogance and infidelity.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 13, 2025
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Performance (1970)
81%
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“The film remains a beguiling time capsule—sensual, cerebral, both ode to and threnody for a very specific time and place.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 4, 2025
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