LA DONNA SCIMMIA (“The Monkey Woman”) Production: Italy, 1963 Director: Marco Ferreri Category: Freaks Based on the real-life story of “Gorilla Woman” Julia Pastrana (born Mexico 1832), a hypertrichosis (excessive body hair) sufferer whose corpse was mummified by husband/promotor Theodore Lent and toured around Europe in a glass coffin. Posted Continue Reading
THE VIPERS + 1
THE VIPERS Production: NL, 1955 Director: Shinkichi Tajiri Category: Experimental/Drugs A short, experimental film shot on 16mm by Tajiri – a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry – which won a prize at Cannes for its innovations in the language of film. At around 9 minutes, The Vipers is an early trip Continue Reading
BOWANGA BOWANGA
BOWANGA BOWANGA Production: USA, 1951/54 Director: Norman Dawn Alternative titles: White Sirens Of Africa; Wild Women Category: Jungle Exploitation Posted by Neuro-Toxx A high-resolution download of the above image can be purchased from our Photo Archive.
A MEIA-NOITE LEVAREI SUA ALMA
A MEIA-NOITE LEVAREI SUA ALMA (“At Midnight I’ll Rip Out Your Soul”) Production: Brazil, 1963-64 Director: José Mojica Marins Category: Horror Not only the first proper horror film ever made in Brazil, but also the most original black-and-white essay in supernatural horror and gothic terror since Mario Bava’s Maschero Del Continue Reading
VERTIGO
VERTIGO Production: USA, 1958 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Category: Psychological Thriller Posted by Lycanthrope A high-resolution download of the above image can be purchased from our Photo Archive.
SS UND JUDENSTERN
SS UND JUDENSTERN “SS And Star Of David” Production: Austria, 1971 Director: Günter Orban Category: Performance Art This 7-minute Vienna performance aktion, originally commissioned by German TV, is one of a series of extreme filmed provocations perpetrated by Otto Muehl and Kurt Kren of the Vienna Aktion Group in the late Continue Reading
SLASH OF THE KNIFE GOD
SLASH OF THE KNIFE GOD Production: USA (1955) Director: Andy Dietz Sub-Title: A Story Of The Green Trap Category: Jungle Exploitation Posted by Neuro-Toxx A high-resolution download of the above image can be purchased from our Photo Archive.