AROUSED Production: USA, 1966 Director: Anton Holden Category: Serial Murder/Sex-Psycho From the same NY grindhouse scene as the films of Michael and Roberta Findlay, Holden’s “roughie/ghoulie” is one of the best of the period, featuring a psychopathic killer with a grudge against hookers (his mother was a prostitute who neglected Continue Reading
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NAZI TORTURE CASTLE
NAZI TORTURE CASTLE Production: USA, c.1975 Director: John Prince Category: Bondage A classic bondage/torture film from John and Cindy Prince; as in all of their 16mm works, Cindy is the girl who falls into enemy hands and is subjected to brutal bondage and domination. In Nazi Torture Castle, she plays a CIA Continue Reading
DABIDE NO HOSHI: BISHOJO-GARI
DABIDE NO HOSHI: BISHOJO-GARI (“Star Of David: Hunting Beautiful Girls”) Production: Japan, 1979 Director: Norifumi Suzuki Category: Pornography/Sadism In Norifumi Suzuki’s dark and twisted Dabide No Hoshi: Bishojo-Gari, the protagonist is conceived when a housebreaker rapes a woman in front of her husband. The husband later punishes his wife by continual Continue Reading
THE PERILS OF PRUNELLA
THE PERILS OF PRUNELLA Production: USA, 1981 Director: Barbara Behr Category: Sado-Masochism/Bondage Seemingly inspired by the bondage comics of John Willie, The Perils Of Prunella is an early film by Behr, founder of House of Milan. Prunella is an office girl who is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious castle, where a depraved Continue Reading
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE Production: UK, 1958 Director: Henry Cass Category: Horror/Sadism Not really a vampire movie, as the fiend in question is in fact a deranged scientist who drains his young female victims of blood in order to carry out medical experiments. His assistant is a hideously deformed hunchback. Really notable only Continue Reading
NIHON BOKO ANKOKUSHI: IJOSHA NO CHI
NIHON BOKO ANKOKUSHI: IJOSHA NO CHI (“Japanese Rape Horror: History Of Bloody Perversion”) Production: Japan, 1967 Director: Wakamatsu Koji Category: Sex-Violence As with his classic Okasareta Hakui, (“Violated Nurses”), released the same year, Wakamatsu based this film on a true sex-crime, loosely reprising – with typical embellishments of sadism and political Continue Reading
LA VICE ET LA VERTU +1
LA VICE ET LA VERTU (“Vice And Virtue”) Production: France, 1962 Director: Roger Vadim Category: War/Nazis As early as 1947 and the release of Poland’s Ostatni Etap, war-films were being made in Europe that have claims to providing the first glimpses of that notorious sub-genre, Nazi exploitation. The claims of the French film Continue Reading