JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS (“I Love You, No I Don’t”) Production: France, 1976 Director: Serge Gainsbourg Category: Sex Composer Gainsbourg’s first film as director is the classic story of a girl who submits to endless bouts of sodomy because the young man she loves is essentially homosexual and can only relate Continue Reading
DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST
DIE NICHTEN DER FRAU OBERST (“Frau Oberst’s Nieces”) Production: Germany, 1968 Director: Erwin C. Dietrich Category: Sex Exploitation Posted by Cyanide Queen
NIHONTO MONOGATARI
NIHONTO MONOGATARI (“Japanese Sword Story”) Production: Japan, 1957 Director: Asano Tatsuo Category: Documentary/Martial Arts Sacred film dedicated to the samurai sword, showing its crafting, its many uses, and its cultural and symbolic significance, all accompanied by spiralling Wagnerian music. It was the Japanese sword that allowed the Shogun’s samurai to Continue Reading
CINQ FILLES EN FURIE
CINQ FILLES EN FURIE (“Five Wild Girls”) Production: France, 1964 Director: Max Pécas Category: Sex Exploitation Five young women, on vacation in southern France and staying at an old mansion, are led to believe that Nazi treasure is buried nearby, and try to cajole its location from Martha, a local drunk. They Continue Reading
SADISMO
SADISMO Production: Italy, 1967 Director: Salvatore Billitteri US release title: Spots In the Sun Category: Mondo Mondo movie featuring concentration camp footage, Japanese devil masks, childbirth, female nudity and other delights, focusing on torture and human sacrifice. 1967 also saw the release of Gianni Proia’s penultimate mondo, Realtà Romanzesca. Posted Continue Reading
THE DIRTY DOLLS
THE DIRTY DOLLS Production: USA, 1973 Director: Stu Segall Category: Adult/Crime This little-known X-rated Manson exploitation movie is also one of the best; a psychopathic manipulator named Johnny Feral controls a gang of nubile young girls, including his own sister, who are willing to rob and kill for him. With Continue Reading
THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE
THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE Production: USA, 1971 Director: Leland Auslender Category: Experimental A 12-minute experimental film evocation of the myth of Aphrodite, using multiple superimposed liquid images filmed with distorting mirrors and electronic soundtracking with subliminal vocal sounds. Aphrodite’s birth is paralleled with the creation of life itself, emerging from the matrix of Continue Reading
LE CALDE NOTTI DI POPPEA
LE CALDE NOTTI DI POPPEA (“Poppea’s Hot Nights”) Production: Italy, 1969 Director: Guido Malatesta Category: Sex Peplum/Farce Le Calde Notti Di Poppea, although relatively light-hearted, can now be seen as among the first in the “sex-peplum” genre, paving the way for the ultimate depravity of Tinto Brass’ Caligola and its copyists a Continue Reading
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE Production: UK, 1958 Director: Arthur Crabtree Category: Science Fiction From “The Thought Monster”, a 1930s pulp magazine story by Amelia Reynolds Long, this is a twisted tale of creatures made from human thought, who assume the form of a disembodied cerebellum after sucking out the brains of screaming victims. Continue Reading
THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS
THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS Production: USA, 1954 Director: Edward Bernds Category: Horror-Comedy Notable mainly for a turn by gorilla-man Steve Calvert. Posted by The Purple Gas