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 […]
The Forbidden (1966)
Get ready for sixty-six minutes of pure scum from 1966, presented by Lee Frost (who wrote Race with the Devil and directed A Climax of Blue Power, along with The Thing With Two Heads) and Bob Cresse (whose Olympic International Films also brought The Scavengers and Love Camp 7 to the not so silver screen). AGFA, who got the […]
The Killer Shrews (1959)
During World War II, Ray Kellogg was a US Navy Lieutenant as part of the O.S.S. Field Photographing Branch. That’s where he met John Ford and when Kellogg came back to the U.S., he headed off to 20th Century Fox, where he eventually became the head of the special effects division and helped invent CinemaScope. […]
Agatha Christine: Spy Next Door (2020)
This ambitious, affable children’s film from Denmark—which features 100 backgrounds and 30-plus characters drawn in Photoshop, with each cell painted-by-hand and each character layered 600-times to enable movement—imagines famed English mystery purveyor Agatha Christie as a young child—in this case through the imagination of a lonely ten-year-old Agatha-Christine. Through books—and adorned Christie’s famed “Miss Marple” […]
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)
Back when we first discussed A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge,we touched on the story of Mark Patton, whose role as final boy Jesse was once said to be only subtext, but really is one of the first out gay characters in a mainstream American horror film. There’s no subtext at all […]
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Literally, how did this get made? Bruce Willis was originally the lead, but allegedly dropped out in the aftermath of divorce procedures from his wife Demi Moore. He was replaced by Val Kilmer, who had limited availability and unlimited anger issues after he too got divorce papers. Then Rob Morrow quit because the script kept […]
Mondo Teeno (1967)
“Across the country, every Friday and Saturday night, they gather in the temples to perform ceremonial dances to a rhythm that seems to reach back in time. It’s called the beat.” That’s how Mondo Teeno, also known as Teenage Rebellion, begins. Paired with Mondo Mod on drive-in screens across the country in 1967, it gave the non-big city […]
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Once upon a time, the creative force known as Richard Stanley (Hardware, Color Out of Space) got the opportunity to make his dream project: a big budget adaption of H.G. Wells’ The Island Of Doctor Moreau. How would a somewhat quiet and totally creative man work within the studio system? Not well, it turns out. Between witchcraft, […]
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