KOFUN!! (“Aroused!!”) Production: Japan, 1968 Director: Okuwaki Toshio US release title: Naked Pursuit Category: Sex Okuwaki’s erotic film – he previously scripted Shojo No Zekkyo (“Scream Of The Virgin”, 1966) and others – is an attempted melange of sex, crime and rebellion in the mould of Koji Wakamatsu, Japan’s greatest Continue Reading
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PORUNO NO JOO: NIPPON SEX RYOKO
PORUNO NO JOO: NIPPON SEX RYOKO (“Porno Queen: Japanese Sex-Trip”) Production: Japan, 1972 Director: Nakajima Sadao Swedish sex star Christina Lindberg plays a European girl travelling in Japan, who is picked up by a man who brutally rapes her and keeps her chained up at his apartment. She escapes but is gang-raped by Continue Reading
L’ENFER DANS LA PEAU
L’ENFER DANS LA PEAU (“Hell Beneath The Skin”) Production: France, 1965 Director: José Bénazéraf US release title: Sexus Category: Sex-Violence One of the numerous European sex-and-violence films acquired by Radley Metzger to be edited, dubbed, and in some cases augmented with new erotic footage, for release on his Audubon distribution company. Posted Continue Reading
BAI FA MO NU ZHUAN
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
TOP SENSATION
TOP SENSATION Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Ottavio Alessi US release title: The Seducers Category: Sex-Violence Posted by Cyanide Queen
FUEGO
FUEGO (“Fire”) Production: Argentina, 1969 Director: Armando Bó Category: Softcore Pornography One of numerous weird erotic films made by Bó with his regular sex goddess star Isabel Sarli. Others include Carne (“Meat”, 1969) and El Sexo Y El Amor Sexo (“Sex And Love”, 1974). Posted by Nightcrawler-X
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
LE CALDE NOTTI DI POPPEA
LE CALDE NOTTI DI POPPEA (“Poppea’s Hot Nights”) Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Guido Malatesta Category: Sex Peplum/Farce Le Calde Notti Di Poppea, although relatively light-hearted, can now be seen as among the first in the “sex-peplum” genre, paving the way for the ultimate depravity of Tinto Brass’ Caligola and its copyists a Continue Reading
LA BESTIA UCCIDE A SANGUE FREDDO
LA BESTIA UCCIDE A SANGUE FREDDO (“The Beast Kills In Cold Blood”) Production: Italy, 1971 Director: Fernando Di Leo US release title: Asylum Erotica French release title: Les Insatisfaites Poupées Érotiques Du Docteur Hitchcock (“The Insatiable Erotic Dolls Of Dr. Hitchcock”) Category: Giallo Posted by Lycanthrope