DRACULA CERCA SANGUE DI VERGINE E… MORI DI SETE!!! (“Drcaula Craves Virgins’ Blood… And Dies Of Thirst!!!”) Production: Italy/France, 1974 Director: Paul Morrissey Alternative title: Blood For Dracula US release title: Andy Warhol’s Dracula Category: Sex-Horror/Vampire Posted by Venus Vex
GONG GUI ZAI
GONG GUI ZAI (“Red Dwarf Ghost”) Production: Hong Kong, 1983 Director: Titus Ho Wing-Lam English title: Red Spells Red Category: Horror/Black Magic One of the most rare and extreme Hong Kong horror films of the early 80s, belonging to that small cluster of reptile, insect and arachnid revulsion freakshows that only Continue Reading
XIN DU BI DAO
XIN DU BI DAO (“New One-Armed Swordsman”) Production: Hong Kong, 1971 Director: Chang Cheh Category: Martial Arts Despite the kung-fu boom of the early 70s, swordplay movies were still being profitably made in Hong Kong. When Wang Yu left Shaw Brothers, they were quick to replace their departed talisman with not one Continue Reading
I CANTI DI MALDOROR
I CANTI DI MALDOROR (“The Songs Of Maldoror”) Production: Italy, 1977 Director: Alberto Cavallone Category: Madness/Drugs Inspired by, but not really based on, Lautréamont’s classic proto-Surrealist anti-novel Les Chants De Maldoror, Cavallone’s film shows the decline of a movie director (Gianni Garko), obsessed with a female photographer, who commits suicide after excessive drug-use. Continue Reading
LE TIGRE AIME LA CHAIR FRAÎCHE
LE TIGRE AIME LA CHAIR FRAÎCHE (“The Tiger Loves Fresh Flesh”) Production: France, 1964 Director: Claude Chabrol US release title: Code Name: Tiger Category: Euro-Spy Posted by Captain Nightshade
ANTI-CLIMAX
ANTI-CLIMAX Production: Mexico, 1969 Director: Gelsen Gas Category: Counter-Culture Gas was a painter, poet, theatre director, sculptor and inventor who directed this one film only, a succession of surrealistic visual enigmas inflamed by a constant undertow of sexual and political agitation involving public transport, an industrial factory whose machines spew Continue Reading
NUOVA GUINEA: L’ISOLA DEI CANNIBALI
NUOVA GUINEA: L’ISOLA DEI CANNIBALI (“New Guinea: Island Of The Cannibals”) Production: Italy/Japan, 1974 Director: Ide Akira Japanese title: Zankoku Hitokui Tairiku (“Continent Of Cannibals And Cruelty”) Category: Mondo/Cannibal Notorious mondo film about the brutal man-eating tribes of New Guinea, featuring a cavalcade of grotesque, often stomach-turning sequences: a woman who Continue Reading
RAPE
RAPE Production: UK, 1969 Director: Yoko Ono & John Lennon Category: Experimental Ono and Lennon made several experimental films during the late 1960s/early 1970s; some are throwaway, while others, like Rape, are extremely powerful and engaging. Rape is based on a brief cinematic premise by Ono written in 1968: “The Continue Reading
EVILSPEAK
EVILSPEAK Production: USA, 1981 Director: Eric Weston Category: Horror An early example of “computer horror” – a young outcast unlocks a gateway to demons through his screen. In the same vein as “teen Satanism” horror movies such as Fear No Evil, Trick Or Treat, Rock And Roll Nightmare, Black Roses, Continue Reading
LING YE
LING YE (“Territorial Field”) Production: Hong Kong, 1981 Director: Ang Saan International English title: Angels With Golden Guns Category: Women-In-Prison A patchwork film, served up by Joseph Lai’s IFD production unit. The basic storyline of Ling Ye involves the capturing and imprisoning of women by slavers, and a bloody climactic uprising, Continue Reading