DABIDE NO HOSHI: BISHOJO-GARI (“Star Of David: Hunting Beautiful Girls”) Production: Japan, 1979 Director: Norifumi Suzuki Category: Pornography/Sadism In Norifumi Suzuki’s dark and twisted Dabide No Hoshi: Bishojo-Gari, the protagonist is conceived when a housebreaker rapes a woman in front of her husband. The husband later punishes his wife by continual Continue Reading
TOP SENSATION
TOP SENSATION Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Ottavio Alessi US release title: The Seducers Category: Sex-Violence Posted by Cyanide Queen
CAPERUCITA ROJA
CAPERUCITA ROJA (“Red Caperucita”) Production: Mexico, 1960 Director: Roberto Rodriguez Category: Fairy-Tale/Freaks This attempted kids’ movie is a surrealistic atrocity, suffused with an innate Mexican grotesquerie which makes it unsuitable for its target audience but affords some sick fascination for jaded adults. Promotional picture cards showed Little Red dressed like Continue Reading
STADT IN FLAMMEN
STADT IN FLAMMEN (“City In Flames”) Production: Germany, 1984 Director: Jochen Müller, Jochen Lempert & Jürgen Reble Category: Experimental A 5 minute-film by the German Schmelzdahin group, who were dedicated to the exploration of the effect on found sequences of Super-8 film by exposure to bacteria, chemical treatment, burying the Continue Reading
Q
Q Production: USA, 1982 Director: Larry Cohen Category: Horror Cohen’s bloody story of a prehistoric Mexican flying lizard (Q stands for Quetzalcoatl) nesting in New York’s Chrysler Building is a pulp saurian masterpiece starring David Carradine, and features such delights as topless girls plucked from rooftop swimming-pools and bitten-off heads Continue Reading
L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO)
L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO) (“Man, Woman And Beast: Spell (Sweet Slaughterhouse)”) Production: Italy, 1977 Director: Alberto Cavallone Category: Experimental/Scatology A rooster, skulls, bones, eggs, a graveyard, a mute madwoman drinking from a filthy toilet bowl, anatomical drawings, a cow giving birth, images of death, adolescent breasts and Continue Reading
IL GLADIATORE INVINCIBILE
IL GLADIATORE INVINCIBILE (“The Invincible Gladiator”) Production: Italy, 1961 Director: Alberto De Martino Category: Peplum/Gladiators Posted by Tomb Star
SPACE IS THE PLACE
SPACE IS THE PLACE Production: USA, 1974 Director: John Coney Category: Avant-Jazz/Black Power An incredible vehicle for the psychedelic talents of Sun Ra, the radical space-age free-jazz philosopher. Performance footage of his amazing Intergalactic Solar Arkestra is inserted into a plot that mixes a 1950s SF aesthetic with revolutionary politics and elements of Continue Reading
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH Production: USA, 1963 Director: Maury Dexter Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE Production: France, 1973 Director: Guy Debord Category: Experimental A Situationist détournement comprised of clips from Hollywood films, Soviet propaganda, softcore porn, and archive footage of historical events, and based on Debord’s own seminal tract of 1967. Culture is revealed as the spectacle which distracts from the realities of Continue Reading