BLACULA Production: USA, 1972 Director: William Crain Category: Blaxpoitation/Horror/Vampire Posted by Cryptomaniac
JEG-EN-MARKI
JEG-EN-MARKI (“I, Marquis”) Production: Denmark/Sweden, 1967 Director: Mac Ahlberg & Peer Guldbrandsen Category: Sex/Marquis de Sade An accountant suffering from acute depression due to financial worries decides to make a last desperate change in his life, and takes on the name – soon followed by the persona – of M.D.E. Continue Reading
CANNIBAL GIRLS
CANNIBAL GIRLS Production: USA, 1973 Director: Ivan Reitman Category: Horror/Cannibal Posted by Rictus-23
SWEET SUGAR
SWEET SUGAR Production: USA, 1972 Director: Michel Levesque Category: Women-in-Prison Scripted by Stephanie Rothman, this WIP movie set in the tropics has plenty of gratuitous sex, sadism and violence. Women in skimpy t-shirts and hot pants toiling in the fields, sweating, with brutal, sadistic, whip-wielding guards driving them to the point Continue Reading
JEROVI
JEROVI Production: USA, 1965 Director: José Rodriguez-Soltero Category: Underground/Queer From the 1960s New York underground, a 10-minute queer movie showing a young man disrobing and masturbating while clutching a red rose. Rodriguez-Soltero also made the camp mess Lupe (1967), starring Mario Montez as Lupe Velez, the Hollywood star who committed Continue Reading
MARAT/SADE
MARAT/SADEProduction: UK, 1966Director: Peter BrookCategory: ExperimentalThe first substantial screen portrayal of the Marquis de Sade, by Patrick Magee, is the centrepiece of Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade, a film of a play and a play within a film, showing the inmates of Charenton asylum performing a theatrical piece written for them by Continue Reading
DATAI
DATAI (“Abortion”) Production: Japan, 1966 Director: Adachi Masao Category: Sex The first “pink” movie directed by Wakamatsu collaborator Adachi concerns Marukido Sadao, a demented gynaecologist who wants to cure the sexual problems of mankind by radically separating sex and reproduction. By creating human life only in artificial wombs, Sadao hopes Continue Reading
ERCOLE AL CENTRO DELLA TERRA
ERCOLE AL CENTRO DELLA TERRA (“Ercole At The Earth’s Center”) Production: Italy, 1961 Director: Mario Bava US release title: Hercules In The Haunted World Category: Peplum/Horror The most horror-oriented of the ’60s peplum craze, starring Christopher Lee. Visually rivalled only by Giorgio Ferroni’s lavish depiction of Dionysus at Thebes, Le Baccanti (also 1961), 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
ADÁN Y EVA
ADÁN Y EVA Production: Mexico, 1956 Director: Alberto Gout Category: Bible Exploitation A daring biblical film with a near-naked Eve, which was soon picked up for roadshow distribution in the US. A later Mexican variation, El Pecado Se Adán Y Eva (“The Sin Of Adam And Eve”), was made in 1969 and Continue Reading