CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM ADDICT Production: USA, 1962 Director: Albert Zugsmith Category: Drugs/Slavery/Freaks Vincent Price is a sailor who falls into the clutches of Chinese drug-pushers. An exploitation film, mostly unrelated to Thomas De Quincey’s original book, but full of sleazy imagery. Zugsmith was something of a pulp visionary, producing Orson Welles’ Touch Of Continue Reading
GOUHUN JIANG TOU
GOUHUN JIANG TOU (“Erotic Degeneration”) Production: Hong Kong, 1982 Director: Meng Hua Ho English title (Hong Kong): Black Magic 2 US release title: Revenge Of The Zombies Category: Horror Gouhun Jiang Tou opens with swamp scenes of a topless woman devoured alive by a crocodile, followed swiftly by the reptile’s capture Continue Reading
PAT, UNA DONNA PARTICOLARE
PAT, UNA DONNA PARTICOLARE (“Pat, A Peculiar Woman”) Production: Italy, 1982 Director: Alberto Cavallone Category: Hardcore Pornography/Freaks One of two horror-tainted hardcore porn movies shot back-to-back by Cavallone after his extreme experimental films of the 70s – inspired by Sade, Lautréamont and Bataille – saw him a virtual outcast from the Continue Reading
WATCH THE BIRDIE… DIE!
WATCH THE BIRDIE… DIE! Production: USA, 1968 Director: Don Doyle Category: Softcore Pornography Downbeat sex-and-death opus from the first wave of softcore. A Jacques Descent Production. Posted by Nightcrawler-X