LIANE, DAS MÄDCHEN AUS DEM URWALD (“Liane The Jungle Girl”) Production: Germany, 1956 Director: Eduard von Borsody US release title: Liane, Jungle Goddess Category: Jungle Exploitation Among the first post-war films from Germany to feature white female nudity, this was basically a female version of Tarzan with a topless teenage actress (Marion Michael) Continue Reading
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES Production: Belgium, 1975 Director: Chantal Akerman Category: Experimental Fictional verité-style document, lasting over three hours and with long sections shot in real time, of the daily routine of a woman (played by Delphine Seyrig) living in Brussels with her teenage son. In order Continue Reading
WILD YOUTH
WILD YOUTH Production: USA, 1960 Director: John F. Schreyer Alternative title: Naked Youth Category: JD/Crime/Drugs/Murder Posted by The Purple Gas
BORN IN FLAMES
BORN IN FLAMES Production: USA, 1983 Director: Lizzie Borden Category: Political A radical feminist feature, set in a hypothetical future New York, where a vigilante group called the Women’s Army assert their right to violent intervention. When one of them, a black militant lesbian, dies in police custody, women from all parts Continue Reading
MORGANE ET SES NYMPHES + 1
MORGANE ET SES NYMPHES (“Morgane And Her Nymphs”) Production: France, 1970 Director: Bruno Gantillon English-language release title: Girl Slaves Of Morgana Le Fay Category: Sex-Horror A dream-like sex-horror film operating in the same territory as Jean Rollin, but more concerned with spiritual vampirism than the kind that opens arteries. Two sexy young girls Continue Reading
IL PROFUMO DELLA SIGNORA IN NERO
IL PROFUMO DELLA SIGNORA IN NERO (“The Perfume Of The Lady In Black”) Production: Italy, 1974 Director: Francesco Barilli Category: Horror Showing distinct influences of both Rosemary’s Baby and Don’t Look Now, and bearing no relation to the 1908 novel by Gaston Leroux of the same name, Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero Continue Reading
MONDO CANE
MONDO CANE (“Dog World”) Production: Italy, 1962 Director: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi Category: Mondo The film that gave its name to a whole genre of cinema – the mondo movie. With Europa Di Notte in 1958, Italy’s cinema of the weird, exotic and shocking began to turn its Continue Reading
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES Production: UK, 1966 Director: John Gilling Category: Horror/Zombie Hammer’s Plague Of The Zombies concerns a voodoo cult at work in darkest 19th-century Cornwall, with the local squire (John Carson) creating a band of zombies to slave in his tin-mines. The film features freshly-disturbed graves, the dead walking the countryside, Continue Reading
LA MONTAGNA DEL DIO CANNIBALE
LA MONTAGNA DEL DIO CANNIBALE (“Mountain Of The Cannibal God”) Production: Italy, 1978 Director: Sergio Martino Category: Cannibal Horror Posted by Rictus-23
LA ROSE ECORCHÉE
LA ROSE ECORCHÉE (“The Flayed Rose”) Production: France, 1970 Director: Claude Mulot Category: Sex/Sadism/Freaks English title: The Blood Rose German title: Das Blutige Schloss der Lebenden Leichen (“Bloody Castle Of Living Corpses”) Promoted as the first “sex-horror” film, Mulot’s phantasy was a conflation of sex, nudity, violence, gore, and two sinister dwarfs. Continue Reading