BORN IN FLAMES Production: USA, 1983 Director: Lizzie Borden Category: Political A radical feminist feature, set in a hypothetical future New York, where a vigilante group called the Women’s Army assert their right to violent intervention. When one of them, a black militant lesbian, dies in police custody, women from all parts Continue Reading
MORGANE ET SES NYMPHES + 1
MORGANE ET SES NYMPHES (“Morgane And Her Nymphs”) Production: France, 1970 Director: Bruno Gantillon English-language release title: Girl Slaves Of Morgana Le Fay Category: Sex-Horror A dream-like sex-horror film operating in the same territory as Jean Rollin, but more concerned with spiritual vampirism than the kind that opens arteries. Two sexy young girls Continue Reading
IL PROFUMO DELLA SIGNORA IN NERO
IL PROFUMO DELLA SIGNORA IN NERO (“The Perfume Of The Lady In Black”) Production: Italy, 1974 Director: Francesco Barilli Category: Horror Showing distinct influences of both Rosemary’s Baby and Don’t Look Now, and bearing no relation to the 1908 novel by Gaston Leroux of the same name, Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero Continue Reading
MONDO CANE
MONDO CANE (“Dog World”) Production: Italy, 1962 Director: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi Category: Mondo The film that gave its name to a whole genre of cinema – the mondo movie. With Europa Di Notte in 1958, Italy’s cinema of the weird, exotic and shocking began to turn its Continue Reading
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES Production: UK, 1966 Director: John Gilling Category: Horror/Zombie Hammer’s Plague Of The Zombies concerns a voodoo cult at work in darkest 19th-century Cornwall, with the local squire (John Carson) creating a band of zombies to slave in his tin-mines. The film features freshly-disturbed graves, the dead walking the countryside, Continue Reading
LA MONTAGNA DEL DIO CANNIBALE
LA MONTAGNA DEL DIO CANNIBALE (“Mountain Of The Cannibal God”) Production: Italy, 1978 Director: Sergio Martino Category: Cannibal Horror Posted by Rictus-23
LA ROSE ECORCHÉE
LA ROSE ECORCHÉE (“The Flayed Rose”) Production: France, 1970 Director: Claude Mulot Category: Sex/Sadism/Freaks English title: The Blood Rose German title: Das Blutige Schloss der Lebenden Leichen (“Bloody Castle Of Living Corpses”) Promoted as the first “sex-horror” film, Mulot’s phantasy was a conflation of sex, nudity, violence, gore, and two sinister dwarfs. Continue Reading
JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS
JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS (“I Love You, No I Don’t”) Production: France, 1976 Director: Serge Gainsbourg Category: Sex Composer Gainsbourg’s first film as director is the classic story of a girl who submits to endless bouts of sodomy because the young man she loves is essentially homosexual and can only relate Continue Reading
DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST
DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST (“Frau Oberst’s Nieces”) Production: Germany, 1968 Director: Erwin C. Dietrich Category: Sex Exploitation Posted by Cyanide Queen
NIHONTO MONOGATARI
NIHONTO MONOGATARI (“Japanese Sword Story”) Production: Japan, 1957 Director: Asano Tatsuo Category: Documentary/Martial Arts Sacred film dedicated to the samurai sword, showing its crafting, its many uses, and its cultural and symbolic significance, all accompanied by spiralling Wagnerian music. It was the Japanese sword that allowed the Shogun’s samurai to Continue Reading