SPACE IS THE PLACE Production: USA, 1974 Director: John Coney Category: Avant-Jazz/Black Power An incredible vehicle for the psychedelic talents of Sun Ra, the radical space-age free-jazz philosopher. Performance footage of his amazing Intergalactic Solar Arkestra is inserted into a plot that mixes a 1950s SF aesthetic with revolutionary politics and elements of Continue Reading
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH Production: USA, 1963 Director: Maury Dexter Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE
LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE Production: France, 1973 Director: Guy Debord Category: Experimental A Situationist détournement comprised of clips from Hollywood films, Soviet propaganda, softcore porn, and archive footage of historical events, and based on Debord’s own seminal tract of 1967. Culture is revealed as the spectacle which distracts from the realities of Continue Reading
ACROSS 100th STREET
ACROSS 110TH STREET Production: USA, 1972 Director: Barry Shear Category: Crime/Blaxploitation A violent mob-crime thriller with elements of blaxploitation, based around a machine-gun massacre in Harlem. With a soundtrack by Bobby Womack; the title song is now viewed as a classic of its kind. Posted by Cryptomaniac
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
ONE-WAY TICKET TO HELL
ONE-WAY TICKET TO HELL Production: USA, 1955 Director: Bamlet L. Price Jr. Category: Juvenile Delinquency/Drugs Posted by The Purple Gas
BLACK CAESAR
BLACK CAESAR Production: USA, 1972 Director: Larry Cohen Soundtrack: James Brown Category: Blaxploitation/Gangster Posted by Cryptomaniac
FUEGO
FUEGO (“Fire”) Production: Argentina, 1969 Director: Armando Bó Category: Softcore Pornography One of numerous weird erotic films made by Bó with his regular sex goddess star Isabel Sarli. Others include Carne (“Meat”, 1969) and El Sexo Y El Amor Sexo (“Sex And Love”, 1974). Posted by Nightcrawler-X
MA BARKER’S KILLER BROOD
MA BARKER’S KILLER BROOD Production: USA, 1960 Director: Bill Karn Category: True Crime A blazing pulp inferno of pumping machine-guns and incendiary violence, not only tracking the bloody life and crimes of Ma Barker and her sons, but throwing in fellow outlaws John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Machine-Gun Kelly Continue Reading
LES ABYSSES
LES ABYSSES (“The Abyss”) Production: France, 1962 Director: Nico Papatakis Category: True Crime The strange case of the Papin Sisters remains one of the most sensational in French history. In 1933, these two maids suddenly and savagely turned on their employer, killing her and her daughter. It was an act of Continue Reading