Kiss Me Monster (1969)
Regina (Rosanna Yanni, Count Dracula’s Great Love) and Diana (Janine Reynaud, The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail) are back again for the third Red Lips movie from Jess Franco. If the last film — Two Undercover Angels — made no sense, guess what? This one doubles down, almost a stream of conscious film made up of […]
Password: Kill Agent Gordon (1966)
What’s that you say? Another Sergio Grieco spy caper after his Agent 077 movies, The Tiffany Memorandum and Argoman the Fantastic Superman? This time, Roger Browne (Super seven from Super Seven Calling Cairo) plays Doug Gordon and, of course, Helga Line is in this as the “not Bond” girl. Helga has been in more movies I’ve watched […]
REPOST: The Girl From Rio (1969)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Oh, Jess Franco. I sometimes absolutely love everything you do and other times, you drive me crazy. This time, you are somewhere in between. And this is a perfect time to bring this movie back, as we explore an entire month of James Bond and Eurospy movies. This originally ran on December 5, […]
The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019) and The Angel (2018)
If you were a spy aficionado in the early ‘70s that couldn’t get enough James Bond in your pulp-and-celluloid diet, and grew up reading Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan: The Executioner, Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s Remo Williams: The Destroyer (adapted as Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins), and Jerry Ahern’s John Rourke: The Survivalist paperbacks (pseudo-adapted […]
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
If there’s a Venn diagram of what I love in movies, this movie would be at the center of it. It’s directed by Lindsay Shonteff, who was behind so many spy films and other moments of outright cinema lunacy like Night After Night After Night. It was filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. […]
Kill Me Gently (1967)
Yet another Kommissar X film — there were seven of them — this entry features the team of Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. They were the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer of their day. Here. Tony is Joe Louis Walker, aka Kommissar X and Brad is New York Police Department Captain Rowland. Rowland has traveled […]
Two Undercover Angels (1967)
Also known as Sadist Erotica, The Case of the Two BeautiesTwo Avenging Angels and Red Lips Sadisterotica, this mindblast from Jess Franco is kinda sorta a Eurospy movie, but you get the feeling that Mr. Franco just wants to get to the choking and nudity and whipping and forget whatever minor plot there is. Basically: two lesbian detectives […]
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
There have been three Johnny English movies, starting with the original in 2003, this film in 2011 and Johnny English Strikes Back in 2018. They all star Rowan Atkinson from Mr. Bean and Blackadder fame. None of these movies have achieved any form of critical fame, but they’ve been popular around the world due to their slapstick and […]
James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965)
Tont means dumb in Italian and this was amongst the first spoofs of the Eurospy genre. It’s directed by Sergio’s younger brother Bruno Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi, who are both known for their comedy work. Lando Buzzanca, who was in Fulci’s Operation St. Peter’s, stars in this as James Tont and he’s up against Goldsinger, with […]
Triggered (2019)
Callee Bishop is a social justice warrior who hates her hometown, which is filled with bigotry and small minds. A killer from the past comes back and starts murdering her classmates and when Callee accidentally kills someone and needs to cover it up, she puts herself in even more danger from the real serial killer. […]
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