DE MINDER GELUKKIGE TERUGKEER VAN JOSZEF KATUS NAAR HET LAND VAN REMBRANDT (“The Unfortunate Joszef Katus Returns To The Land Of Rembrandt”) Production: NL, 1966 Director: Wim Verstappen Category: New Wave/Counter-Culture The first collaboration between director Verstappen and producer Pim de la Parra, also regarded as the first major film of the Continue Reading
NIHON BOKO ANKOKUSHI: IJOSHA NO CHI
NIHON BOKO ANKOKUSHI: IJOSHA NO CHI (“Japanese Rape Horror: History Of Bloody Perversion”) Production: Japan, 1967 Director: Wakamatsu Koji Category: Sex-Violence As with his classic Okasareta Hakui, (“Violated Nurses”), released the same year, Wakamatsu based this film on a true sex-crime, loosely reprising – with typical embellishments of sadism and political Continue Reading
LÁSKY JEDNÉ PLAVOVLÁSKY
LÁSKY JEDNÉ PLAVOVLÁSKY US release title: Loves Of A Blonde Production: Czechoslovakia, 1965 Director: Milos Forman Category: Communist Sex Comedy The bizarre and occasionally erotic tale of the love affair between a telephonist and a rat exterminator. Posted by Venus Vex
DEATHWATCH
DEATHWATCH Production: USA, 1966 Director: Vic Morrow Category: Men-In-Prison/Homo-Erotic Based on Jean Genet’s first play Haute Surveilllance (1943-46), which explores the murderous triangle of rivalry and desire between prison cellmates vying for the attention of the charismatic Greeneyes, who is condemned to death. The play dates from the same period Continue Reading
THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND GEORGE
THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND GEORGE Production: UK, 1981 Director: Gilbert & George Category: Documentary/Art The beautiful world of Gilbert and George has its epicentre in Spitalfield, London, and thence expands in concentric circles across the entire globe – even as far as China, where they are the most popular Western artists of all time. Continue Reading
PAROXISMUS
PAROXISMUS Production: Italy/Germany/UK, 1969 Director: Jesús Franco English-language release title: Venus In Furs Category: Oneiric Thriller Posted by Lycanthrope
VINYL
VINYL Production: USA, 1965 Director: Andy Warhol Category: Experimental Warhol’s bizarre (and unauthorised) interpretation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, starring Gerard Malanga as the vicious delinquent Alex (here, called Victor), plus Edie Sedgewick, and Ondine as Scum Baby, amongst others. Malanga performs his famous “whip dance” before his arrest Continue Reading
LES DÉMONIAQUES
LES DÉMONIAQUES (“The Demonic Ones”) Production: France/Belgium, 1974 Director: Jean Rollin Category: Sex-Violence When two girls are raped by modern-day pirates, they call upon Satan to avenge them. With some nudity and esoteric flourishes, this was Rollin’s tribute to the pirate films and Gaston Leroux horror stories he enjoyed as Continue Reading
LA VICE ET LA VERTU +1
LA VICE ET LA VERTU (“Vice And Virtue”) Production: France, 1962 Director: Roger Vadim Category: War/Nazis As early as 1947 and the release of Poland’s Ostatni Etap, war-films were being made in Europe that have claims to providing the first glimpses of that notorious sub-genre, Nazi exploitation. The claims of the French film Continue Reading
BRAIN OF BLOOD + 1
BRAIN OF BLOOD Production: USA, 1971 Director: Al Adamson Category: Horror/Science Fiction WASP WOMAN Production: USA, 1959 Director: Roger Corman Category: Science Fiction Probably produced by Corman to cash in on the then-recent success of The Fly, Wasp Woman is a cheap, inferior effort, lacking the flashes of pulp brilliance that elevated some Continue Reading