THE UNKNOWN TERROR Production: USA, 1957 Director: Charles Marquis Warren Category: Horror Posted by Moonchild Zero
UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA
UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA (“A Quiet Place In The Country”) Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Elio Petri Category: Madness/Ghosts Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave star as an artist, plagued by nightmares of strange, sadistic sex rites, and his lover who rent a house in the countryside. Nero becomes convinced that the Continue Reading
SHE DEMONS
SHE DEMONS Production: USA, 1958 Director: Richard E. Cunha Category: Horror/Science Fiction One of the first in the cycle of “Nazi-SF’ movies that surfaced in the 50s and 60s, concerning a deranged SS war criminal on a remote island who turns a group of bikini-clad females into disfigured monsters in Continue Reading
DES MORTS
DES MORTS (“The Dead”) Production: France/Belgium, 1981 Director: Jean-Pol Ferbus, Dominique Garny & Thierry Zeno Category: Mondo/Death A documentary that examines the burial and disposal of dead bodies according to differing customs and circumstances. In sharp contrast to American practices, where the deceased are eviscerated, drained and then sewn up to Continue Reading
UHAW NA DAGAT
UHAW NA DAGAT (“Evaporated Sea”) Production: Philippines, 1981 Director: Celso Ad. CastilloCategory: Island Exploitation/Freaks The most bizarre of all the films made by “alternative cinema” director Castillo, set on a remote tropical island where three sisters live. This paradise slowly turns to nightmare with the advent of various intruders, most notably Continue Reading
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL Production: USA, 1965 Director: Andy Warhol Category: Underground The definitive Edie Sedgewick vehicle. Sedgewick was a socialite and heiress from one of the oldet families in America; she first started hanging out at Warhol’s Factory early in 1965, and made brief, non-speaking appearances in the films Continue Reading
THE THRILL KILLERS
THE THRILL KILLERS Production: USA, 1964 Director: Ray Dennis Steckler Re-release title: The Maniacs Are Loose! Category: Horror/Crime Posted by The Purple Gas
SUMMER OF SAM
SUMMER OF SAM Production: USA, 1999 Director: Spike Lee Category: Serial Killer/True Crime This film treatment of the Son of Sam case is a strange choice for black director Spike Lee, normally more at home directing vulgar black melodramas or comedies; the director does his best to conjure up the Continue Reading
THE HOOKED GENERATION
THE HOOKED GENERATION Production: USA, 1968 Director: William Grefé Category: Drugs/Crime Posted by The Purple Gas
L’AFFAIRE DES POISONS
L’AFFAIRE DES POISONS (“The Poison Affair”) Production: France, 1955 Director: Henri Decoin Category: Historical/Witchcraft 1670s Paris was a hotbed of Satanism, with the Black Mass (a modern version of the old Witches’ Sabbat) being invented by the French witch La Voisin (burned alive in 1680). At the Black Mass – preferably Continue Reading