Pale Blood (1990)
A direct-to-video film shot in Hong Kong, Pale Blood tells the story of Michael Fury (George Chakiris, West Side Story), who is a vampire out to preserve the honor of being a bloodsucker by stopping whoever is killing people and draining them of their blood. He’s helped by occult-obsessed investigator Lori (Pamela Ludwig, City Limits). This has […]
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
When Ken Russell gives you the likes of Sir Oliver Reed as a psychosexual priest lusted after by a nun in The Devils (1971), an LSD-induced adaptation of the rock opera Tommy (1975), and an Earthbound Kubrickian mind trip with Altered States (1980), is it any wonder he gives you a vampish sociopolitical satire on […]
And Die of Pleasure (1960)
You have to hand it to French director and screenwriter Roger Vadim: he had a way with the ladies. Unfortunately, he always cast those wives and girlfriends in his movies. His wife Marie-Christine Barrault starred in four of his French TV movies, Bridget Bardot starred in And God Created Woman, and Jane Fonda in Barbarella. […]
Deafula (1975)
The first — and as far as I know only — horror film shot using American Sign Language, I’ve been looking for Deafula for a long time to see just how weird it is. The good news is that it’s totally strange and exactly what I hoped that it would be. In truth, it’s also the […]
Drive-In Friday: Walpurgis Night
I just read the best quote: “I am not joking. The proliferation of horror movies where the bad guy wins is clearly, obviously, a demonic plot to increase cynicism and teach people that it is stupid to feel hope or expect justice. It is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a satanic psyop.” Oh man, welcome to B&S […]
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Long before “meta” became 21st-century digital filmmaking de rigueur, there was this film-within-a-film account of German filmmaker F.W. Murnau’s unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stroker’s Dracula. While the vampire Count Orlok of Murnau’s 1922 silent masterpiece, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, was portrayed by German actor Max Schreck, the film plays up Schreck’s unorthodox Method Acting […]
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