Daughter (2019)
“My daughter found another doctor. She said you can’t even treat your own daughter.” Dr. Sharon Cheung (Asian Film Awards, Golden Horse, and Hong Kong Film Awards multi-winner Kara Wai) is a career-obsessed Hong Kong psychiatrist and single mom who’s fed up with and neglects Jenny (Yanny Chan of the Cantopop girl group Super Girls, […]
Get ready to watch!
We’re not far away from an entire night of evil children! Meet us on the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM EST!
Mondo Cane 2 (1963)
New Guinea, Germany, Singapore, Portugal, Australia, America and beyond, no country is safe when Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi have their cameras rolling. Paolo Cavara, who helped make Mondo Cane, had moved on to make other films, including Black Belly of the Tarantula and Plot of Fear. This time around, their journey takes us through vivisections, lynchings, […]
Acts of Violence (1985)
Oh Lightning Video, you bringers of filth and ruin. In addition to giving us VHS versions of The Wild Beasts, The House of the Yellow Carpet, the Michael Pataki-directed Cinderella, The Killer Is on the Phone, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Necropolis, Dark August, Footprints on the Moon, Superstition and more also have us this mondo of sorts. Billed as “a riveting […]
The Orientals (1960)
Romolo Marcellini was all over the mondo fad, creating films like Taboos of the World and Macabro. Here, his camera explores the emancipation of women in the Far East. That said — none of these stories are true, all shot like a mondo but obviously scripted stories. Akiko Wakabayashi — Aki from You Only Live Twice — and […]
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)
This year, Severin released Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, a collection of 31 remastered films on 14 discs. This movie appears at the center of it and if you know nothing of the story of Adamson — somehow a man who could work with both Colonel Sanders and Charles Manson — get ready to have your […]
Mondo Balordo (1964)
Albert T. Viola — yes, the same man who wrote, directed, produced and starred in Preacherman — completed the American version of this film, known as A Fool’s World in Italy. There, it was directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero, who also made the mondos Africa Sexy, Orient By Night, Sexy Nudo, Sexy nel Mondo, Universo Proibito and Superspettacoli nel Mondo. He would go on to […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.