AROUSED

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

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