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
SWINGING BARMAIDS
THE SWINGING BARMAIDSProduction: USA, 1975Director: Gus TrikonisCategory: Psycho Killer/Sex Posted by Cyanide Queen
STRYKER’S WAR
STRYKER’S WAR Production: USA, 1987 Director: Josh Becker Category: Vietnam/Gore An unholy amalgam of Vietnam psychosis, Charles Manson, and bloody splatter. 1969: Stryker returns home from combat in Vietnam after sustaining a field wound. It seems that his home town is being terrorized by a local Manson-style cult, who end Continue Reading
SITTING TARGET
SITTING TARGET Production: UK, 1972 Director: Douglas Hickox Category: Crime/Violence One of three outstanding, brutal crime thrillers made in early 70s England, each starring one of that country’s top actors. Whilst Get Carter had Michael Caine and Villain had Richard Burton, Sitting Target boasts the immortal Oliver Reed in one of 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
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO
ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO Production: USA, 1969 Director: Robet Thom Re-release title: Cult Of The Damned Category: Freak Scene Psychedelic trash about a rock star and his sidekicks; he rapes a fat girl and seduces the rest of her family (of both genders), before killing two of them. It bombed, so 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
VASE DES NOCES + 1
VASE DES NOCES (“Wedding Vase”) Production: Belgium, 1974 Director: Thierry Zeno & Dominique Garny Category: Sexual Perversion Bizarre film about a disturbed man’s relationship with a sow; features acts of bestiality and coprophilia amongst other delights. As well as raping the sow and fondling its nipples, he likes to defecate in Continue Reading
LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR
LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR (“Concerto Of Fear”) Production: France, 1963 Director: José Bénazéraf US release title: Night Of Lust Category: Sex/Crime Posted by Cyanide Queen
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD Production: USA, 1975 Director: William Allen Castleman Category: Vietnam Vets/Gore Native American reaps revenge on the white invaders of his reservation. This one of the goriest and most violent of the psycho vet cycle. Johnny, the title character, is a tough Viet vet who flips when members of Continue Reading