Day: June 6, 2020

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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