BAI FA MO NU ZHUAN (“White-Haired She-Demon Rising”) Production: Hong Kong, 1993 Director: Ronny Yu Yan-Tai English title: Bride With White Hair Category: Martial Arts/Horror One of Hong Kong’s most famous martial arts fantasies. Master swordsman Cho of the Wu Tang Clan is reluctantly pitted against an evil blood cult and Continue Reading
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO Production: USA, 1969 Director: Robet Thom Re-release title: Cult Of The Damned Category: Freak Scene Psychedelic trash about a rock star and his sidekicks; he rapes a fat girl and seduces the rest of her family (of both genders), before killing two of them. It bombed, so Continue Reading
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE Production: USA, 1972 Director: John Hayes Category: Horror/Vampire The most interesting of the low-level movies made by Hayes in the 60s and 70s, notable for unusual scenes of vampire rape, followed by the birth of a vampire baby that sucks only blood from its mother’s breast. It also has Continue Reading
VASE DES NOCES + 1
VASE DES NOCES (“Wedding Vase”) Production: Belgium, 1974 Director: Thierry Zeno & Dominique Garny Category: Sexual Perversion Bizarre film about a disturbed man’s relationship with a sow; features acts of bestiality and coprophilia amongst other delights. As well as raping the sow and fondling its nipples, he likes to defecate in Continue Reading
LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR
LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR (“Concerto Of Fear”) Production: France, 1963 Director: José Bénazéraf US release title: Night Of Lust Category: Sex/Crime Posted by Cyanide Queen
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD Production: USA, 1975 Director: William Allen Castleman Category: Vietnam Vets/Gore Native American reaps revenge on the white invaders of his reservation. This one of the goriest and most violent of the psycho vet cycle. Johnny, the title character, is a tough Viet vet who flips when members of Continue Reading
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER Production: USA, 1955 Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Category: Horror Posted by Moonchild Zero
DEVIL’S ANGELS
DEVIL’S ANGELS Production: USA, 1967 Director: Daniel Haller Category: Biker/Violence AIP hurriedly followed the success of their biker flick Wild Angels with Devil’s Angels, starring John Cassavetes as the ageing leader of a motorcycle gang. As director Roger Corman was tied up with The Trip, his erstwhile art director Haller stepped Continue Reading
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH Production: USA, 1958-60 Director: Ken Jacobs Category: Experimental At 120 minutes in its first incarnation, Star Spangled To Death remains underground director Jacobs’ key work. It stars fellow film-maker Jack Smith alongside Jerry Sims, and was shot in various New York locations, including the roof of a West Side Continue Reading