SHE SHAN GU NU

SHE SHAN GU NU (“Snake-Venom Mountain Women”) Production: Hong Kong, 1977 Director: Liu Kuo-Hsiung English title: Succubare Category: Horror/Black Magic A witchcraft/martial arts movie featuring a Chinese geek (actor Au Lap-Bo) who eats live lizards, snakes, mice and toads onscreen; animal cruelty seems to be the film’s raison d’être. In 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

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

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