FLITTERWOCHEN IN DER HÖLLE (“Honeymoon In Hell”) Production: Germany, 1960 Director: Johannes Kai US release title: Isle Of Sin Category: Crime Posted by Graf Mitternacht
LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL
LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL (“The Crystal Cradle”) Production: France, 1976 Director: Philippe Garrel Category: Experimental/Drugs Heroin chic to the max in this morbid, tenebrous trance-film which features the ultimate pairing of Teutonic rock sirens, Nico and Anita Pallenberg. Nico lies in a drug-induced near-coma, dreaming of mythical beings, before ending it all with Continue Reading
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN Production: UK, 1969-70 Director: Gordon Hessler Category: Horror/Science Fiction/Crime The best of an interesting series of horror films directed by Hessler in the late ’60s/early ’70s, Scream And Scream Again was scripted by Christopher Wicking, author of Hammer’s stand-out Demons Of The Mind amongst others, from the Peter Saxon Continue Reading
LA CAMPANA DEL INFIERNO
LA CAMPANA DEL INFIERNO (“Hell’s Bell”) Production: Spain, 1973 Director: Claudio Guerín & Juan Antonio Bardem (post-production) Category: Horror One of the very best of the first wave of Spanish horror movies 1967-75, a gothic arthouse nightmare of insanity, perversion, and murder that revolves around the question of whether the protagonist, recently Continue Reading
DIABOLIK
DIABOLIK Production: Italy, 1968 Director: Mario Bava Category: Crime Posted by Venus Vex
THE BEAT GENERATION
THE BEAT GENERATION Production: USA, 1959 Director: Charles F. Haas US re-release title: This Rebel Age Category: Beat/Crime Beat exploitation movie in the wake of Jack Kerouac, using the beat/coffee bar scene as a backdrop to the pursuit of a psychopathic rapist. It was produced by Albert Zugsmith, and features one Continue Reading
L’ULTIMA PREDA DEL VAMPIRO
L’ULTIMA PREDA DEL VAMPIRO (“The Vampire’s Last Victim”) Production: Italy, 1960 Director: Piero Regnoli US release title: The Playgirls And The Vampire Category: Horror/Vampire Five gorgeous showgirls take shelter from a storm in an old castle, only to find out that the master of the place is a vampire (played by Walter Continue Reading
TURKEY SHOOT
TURKEY SHOOT Production: Australia, 1982 Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Category: Science Fiction/Gore A slightly futuristic, gory twist on The Most Dangerous Game, in which political prisoners of a totalitarian regime are held and physically abused at a brutal detention camp. The “turkey shoot” is a regular event held at the camp; selected Continue Reading
LA TUMBA DE LA ISLA MALDITA
LA TUMBA DE LA ISLA MALDITA (“The Tomb On Accursed Island”) Production: Spain/USA, 1973 Director: Julio Salvador & Ray Danton English-language release titles: Hannah, Queen Of The Vampires; Crypt Of The Living Dead Category: Horror/Vampire Posted by Moonchild Zero
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA]
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA] Production: Cambodia, 1979 Director: Dinh Phong, Ho Van Tay Category: Atrocity Army cameramen Phong and Tay were with the Vietnamese troops that drove back the Khmer Rouge in a sweeping January 1979 offensive, and were the first to film inside the abandoned Tuol Sleng prison/torture/extermination camp, Continue Reading