THE NIGHT STALKERProduction: USA, 1972Director: John MoxeyCategory: HorrorOne of the best-ever TV horror movies, scripted by Richard Matheson and starring Darren McGavin as Kolchak, a reporter who is relentless in his pursuit of unusual or supernatural news stories. Here he is in Las Vegas on the trail of a reported vampire, Skorzeny, Continue Reading
FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI CHITEI KAIJU BARAGON
FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI CHITEI KAIJU BARAGON(“Frankenstein Versus Deep-Sea Monster Baragon”)Production: Japan, 1965Director: Honda IshiroCategory: Science Fiction/KaijuWhen Toho decided to produce the first ever Japanese Frankenstein film, instead of a straight horror movie they elected to place the character in the realm of kaiju eiga, pitching it against a typical giant sea-monster; atomic Continue Reading
CAIN’S FILM + 1
CAIN’S FILM Production: UK, 1969 Director: Jamie Wadhawan Category: Documentary Biographical documentary on Scottish beat/junkie writer Alexander Trocchi, author of Cain’s Book, which deals with drug addiction. The film details how the book was banned for its sex and drug references, and features commentary from William S. Burroughs, who described Trocchi’s Continue Reading
MIAO JIE HUANG HOU
MIAO JIE HUANG HOU(“Queen Of Temple Street”)Production: Hong Kong, 1977Director: Kuei Chih-Hung & Sun ChungEnglish release title: Assault: The Criminals Part IVCategory: Crime/HorrorFilm #4 of a violent, exploitational 5-film series from Shaw Brothers, known collectively as The Criminals, which commenced in 1976 with the 3-episode Xiang Gang Qi An (“A Continue Reading
THE MUTATIONS
THE MUTATIONSProduction: UK, 1974Director: Jack CardiffCategory: Science Fiction/Freaks/HorrorA great cinematographer, Cardiff proved how bad a director he could be with the monumentally tedious Girl On A Motorcycle. The Mutations on the other hand is in monumentally bad taste, using real freaks to embellish a repulsive tale of human experimentation set in Continue Reading
MANDINGO
MANDINGOProduction: USA, 1975Director: Richard FleischerCategory: Sex/SlaveryMandingo is the notorious big-budget sex-and-black-slavery epic of sadism and miscegeny, which was never re-released by Paramount after its controversial first run. The film contains frontal nudity, flagellation, the auctioning of naked slaves, death by bitten-out jugular vein, black females used as concubines, black slaves Continue Reading
QIAN HUO MEIGUI
QIAN HUO MEIGUI(“A Thousand Burning Roses”)Production: Hong Kong, 1992Director: Lee Tin-HoCategory: Women-In-PrisonA Chinese jungle prison film featuring excessive brutality and cruelty to women. In a remote incarceration camp, where the females are used for sexual gratification and the males for target practice, the Commander amuses himself by pissing on crucified Continue Reading
RYOMA ANSATSU
RYOMA ANSATSU (“The Assassination Of Ryoma”)Production: Japan, 1974 Director: Kuroki Kazuo Category: Samurai Ryoma Sakamoto was a notorious rogue samurai, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). He was assassinated just before his plans came to fruition, Continue Reading
LE VIEUX FUSIL
LE VIEUX FUSIL (“The Old Rifle”) Production: France/Germany, 1975 Director: Robert Enrico Category: Nazi/Violence Enrico was not an exploitation director, but there are enough elements in this film – starting with atrocity as a man’s wife is burned alive by Nazi flame-throwers – to qualify it as being amongst the ranks of Continue Reading
CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS
CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS Production: USA, 1976 Director: Jack Weis Category: Vietnam/Horror A disturbed Vietnam vet is robbed and killed by thieves in the Louisiana bayou, but comes back to “life” with the help of Dambella, a sexy swamp witch who performs her snake-curses in the nude. A steamy conflagration of the Viet-vet, Continue Reading