SUGAR HILL Production: USA, 1974 Director: Paul Maslansky Category: Blaxploitation/Gangster/Zombie Posted by Lycanthrope
Horror
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
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
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
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER Production: USA, 1955 Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Category: Horror Posted by Moonchild Zero
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
SCHNEEWEISSCHEN UND ROSENROT
SCHNEEWEISSCHEN UND ROSENROT (“Little Snow-White And Rose-Red”) Production: Germany, 1955 Director: Erich Kobler Category: Fairy-Tale/Freaks Perhaps the most grotesque of all versions of Grimms’ fairytales (this is not to be confused with the same Snow White story that Disney covered), featuring a truly malignant dwarf who is trying to rob Continue Reading
BLACULA
BLACULA Production: USA, 1972 Director: William Crain Category: Blaxpoitation/Horror/Vampire Posted by Cryptomaniac
CANNIBAL GIRLS
CANNIBAL GIRLS Production: USA, 1973 Director: Ivan Reitman Category: Horror/Cannibal Posted by Rictus-23