THE TERROR OF THE TONGS Production: UK, 1961 Director: Anthony Bushell Category: Yellow Peril Hammer’s Terror Of The Tongs was a tale of Hong Kong’s Red Dragon Tong of 1919 – a murderous secret sect engaged in white slavery and opium smuggling. The film’s hero eventually avenges his daughter’s death by bringing down the Continue Reading
RAMPAGE
RAMPAGE Production: USA, 1987 Director: William Friedkin Category: Serial Killer/True Crime Richard Chase, the “Vampire of Sacramento”, was one of the more disturbing killers of the 1970s. Obsessed with blood, as a young man he began to enhance his diet with the raw intestines and blood of birds, cats, and Continue Reading
NAZI TORTURE CASTLE
NAZI TORTURE CASTLE Production: USA, c.1975 Director: John Prince Category: Bondage A classic bondage/torture film from John and Cindy Prince; as in all of their 16mm works, Cindy is the girl who falls into enemy hands and is subjected to brutal bondage and domination. In Nazi Torture Castle, she plays a CIA Continue Reading
THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X
THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X Production: UK, 1958 Director: Gilbert Gunn US release title: Cosmic Monsters Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
KOFUN!!
KOFUN!! (“Aroused!!”) Production: Japan, 1968 Director: Okuwaki Toshio US release title: Naked Pursuit Category: Sex Okuwaki’s erotic film – he previously scripted Shojo No Zekkyo (“Scream Of The Virgin”, 1966) and others – is an attempted melange of sex, crime and rebellion in the mould of Koji Wakamatsu, Japan’s greatest Continue Reading
THE MASK
THE MASK Production: Canada, 1961 Director: Julian Roffman Re-release title: Eyes Of Hell Category: Horror/Freak-Out With 3-D dream sequences devised by the great film montage-creator Slavko Vorkapich. Posted by Moonchild Zero
ANGELIC FRANKENSTEIN
ANGELIC FRANKENSTEIN Production: USA, 1964 Director: Bob Mizer Category: Homosexual Erotica A short queer movie in which Frankenstein creates a perfect male lover from a doll. But when he tries to teach him to shoot guns, the creatures attacks him and runs away. Bob Mizer was the founder, in 1945, of Continue Reading
LA TARANTOLA DAL VENTRE NERO
LA TARANTOLA DAL VENTRE NERO (“The Black-Bellied Tarantula”) Production: Italy, 1971 Director: Paolo Cavara Category: Giallo Posted by Lycnathrope
L’AVENTURE PRODIGIEUSE DE LA DENTELLIÈRE ET DU RHINOCÉROS
L’AVENTURE PRODIGIEUSE DE LA DENTELLIÈRE ET DU RHINOCÉROS “The Prodigious Adventure Of The Lacemaker And The Rhinoceros” Production: Spain/France, 1954-62 Director: Salvador Dalí & Robert Descharnes Category: Surrealism One of the legendary uncompleted art films of the 20th century, this collaboration with Robert Descharnes was conceived as a cinematic exploration of Dali’s previous Continue Reading
PSYCHIC VISION JAGANREI
PSYCHIC VISION JAGANREI (“Psychic Vision: Evil Eye Ghost”) Production: Japan, 1988 Director: Ishii Teruyoshi Category: Horror This 49-minute independent video production is often cited as the precursor of J-Horror, the genre which flourished in the 1990s and produced films such as Joyu-Rei, Ringu, Ju-On, and Kyua. Shot in a fake documentary Continue Reading