BRIDE OF THE MONSTER Production: USA, 1955 Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Category: Horror Posted by Moonchild Zero
DEVIL’S ANGELS
DEVIL’S ANGELS Production: USA, 1967 Director: Daniel Haller Category: Biker/Violence AIP hurriedly followed the success of their biker flick Wild Angels with Devil’s Angels, starring John Cassavetes as the ageing leader of a motorcycle gang. As director Roger Corman was tied up with The Trip, his erstwhile art director Haller stepped Continue Reading
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH Production: USA, 1958-60 Director: Ken Jacobs Category: Experimental At 120 minutes in its first incarnation, Star Spangled To Death remains underground director Jacobs’ key work. It stars fellow film-maker Jack Smith alongside Jerry Sims, and was shot in various New York locations, including the roof of a West Side 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
TOP SENSATION
TOP SENSATION Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Ottavio Alessi US release title: The Seducers Category: Sex-Violence Posted by Cyanide Queen
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
STADT IN FLAMMEN
STADT IN FLAMMEN (“City In Flames”) Production: Germany, 1984 Director: Jochen Müller, Jochen Lempert & Jürgen Reble Category: Experimental A 5 minute-film by the German Schmelzdahin group, who were dedicated to the exploration of the effect on found sequences of Super-8 film by exposure to bacteria, chemical treatment, burying the 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
L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO)
L’UOMO, LA DONNA E LA BESTIA: SPELL (DOLCE MATTATOIO) (“Man, Woman And Beast: Spell (Sweet Slaughterhouse)”) Production: Italy, 1977 Director: Alberto Cavallone Category: Experimental/Scatology A rooster, skulls, bones, eggs, a graveyard, a mute madwoman drinking from a filthy toilet bowl, anatomical drawings, a cow giving birth, images of death, adolescent breasts and Continue Reading
IL GLADIATORE INVINCIBILE
IL GLADIATORE INVINCIBILE (“The Invincible Gladiator”) Production: Italy, 1961 Director: Alberto De Martino Category: Peplum/Gladiators Posted by Tomb Star