Australia After Dark (1975)
Burlesque, body-painting, snake-eating, mud-wrestling, alien landings, a gay wedding, and Satanism. Yep, director John D. Lamond (Felicity, Nightmares) pretty much watched Mondo Cane and said, “I borrowed a 16mm print of it and ran it on a closed circuit cinema thing and stopped and started the projector and looked at it. It ran on a sort of […]
The Soul Collector (2020)
An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter’s soul in this feature film debut by South African writer-director by Harold Hölscher. The bankrupt William Zeil returns with his new wife, Sarah, and adopted daughter, Mary, to the family farm he inherited from his estranged father, with the hopes […]
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Five years after Africa Blood and Guts, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi returned with this movie, which is pretty much one of the roughest films I’ve ever made it through. This was shot primarily in Haiti, where the directors were the guests of Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, who gave them diplomatic cars, clearance to film […]
Monster: The Josef Fritzl Story (2010)
In this sickening story, Elisabeth Fritz tells the story of how her father Josef kept her locked in a cellar for 24 years, during which time she gave birth to seven incestuous children before she was eventually freed from a life of beatings, rape and torture, This is not the strangest tale director David Notman-Watt has created. […]
Secret Rites (1971)
When you say, “Sam, would you like to watch a movie about 1970’s witchcraft from the director of I Am a Groupie, The Girl from Starship Venus and Blood Tracks?” the answer is always going to be yes. This 47-minute movie is packed with narration from the women about to enter witchcraft and appearances by Alex Sanders, the English […]
Ecco (1963)
Offsetting the globetrotting shock of this film — watch a woman bite off a reindeer’s scrotum with her bare teeth! — is the voice of George Sanders, perhaps way too sophisticated a man for such an endeavor. That said, money is money, and it’s time for Gianni Proia to take us all around This Shocking World […]
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