BODYBUILDING Production: Austria, 1965 Director: Ernst Schmidt Jr. Category: Performance Art A 9-minute film-capture of one of the seminal 1960s performance-art pieces by Vienna Aktionist Otto Muehl. Using both colour and sound, Schmidt adds solarization effects to match the intensity of Muehl’s Materialaktion, which included mummification by bandages and daubing Continue Reading
EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN
EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN Production: UK, 1964 Director: Freddie Francis Category: Horror Third in the Hammer Frankenstein franchise. Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing once again) is on the run from yet another band of outraged villagers when he comes across one of his earlier creations, a semi-human monster (played by Kiwi Kingston) that has Continue Reading
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE Production: UK, 1958 Director: Henry Cass Category: Horror/Sadism Not really a vampire movie, as the fiend in question is in fact a deranged scientist who drains his young female victims of blood in order to carry out medical experiments. His assistant is a hideously deformed hunchback. Really notable only Continue Reading
LA FÉE SANGUINAIRE
LA FÉE SANGUINAIRE (“The Bloodthirsty Fairy”) Production: Belgium, 1968 Director: Roland Lethem Category: Experimental Horror One of the most startling arthouse films of the 60s, in which a voluptuous nude creature launches violent assaults on religion and society; the film opens with a swastika before we see the avenging fairy/angel sexually abusing Continue Reading
SEXUAL FREEDOM IN DENMARK
SEXUAL FREEDOM IN DENMARK Production: USA, 1970 Director: John Lamb Category: Adult/Documentary A broad documentary look at sexuality in history, including Japanese and Chinese erotic art (including images of bestiality), plus issues of contraception, sex education and obscenity, and ending with a child-birth sequence plus filmed demonstrations of various sexual Continue Reading
SEX PSYCHO
SEX PSYCHO Production: USA, 1970 Director: Walt Davis Category: Hardcore Pornography/Gore One of the earliest and most powerful examples of that ultimate hybrid exploitation genre, the hardcore porno-gore movie. All cast and crew (including John Holmes) were uncredited, and the film was actually deemed unreleasable even on the sleaziest of midnight Continue Reading
LA BESTIA UCCIDE A SANGUE FREDDO
LA BESTIA UCCIDE A SANGUE FREDDO (“The Beast Kills In Cold Blood”) Production: Italy, 1971 Director: Fernando Di Leo US release title: Asylum Erotica French release title: Les Insatisfaites Poupées Érotiques Du Docteur Hitchcock (“The Insatiable Erotic Dolls Of Dr. Hitchcock”) Category: Giallo Posted by Lycanthrope
HUANG MAO GUI REN
HUANG MAO GUI REN (“Yellow-Haired Freak”) Production: Hong Kong, 1962 Director: Wong Fung Category: Martial Arts/HorrorPulp Cantonese cinema from the early 60s, the last and most outlandish in a series of films, which started in 1959, featuring the character of Wong Ang the Flying Heroine Bandit, who first appeared in Continue Reading
THE HEALERS
THE HEALERS Production: USA, 1972 Director: Eduardo Cemano Category: Hardcore PornographyThe first film in an unusual trilogy of early hardcore porn movies, centring on radical theories of sex therapy, and directed by Cemano who started his career with a pair of wild “acid sex” films, Millie’s Homecoming and The Weirdos And Continue Reading
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS Production: UK, 1963 Director: Steve Sekely Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star