Dracula Sucks (1978)
Reggie Nalder played perhaps the best vampire of all time, Barlow in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, but in this pornographic version of the Dracula story, he’s Van Helsing. So who, in 1978, should play Dracula? C’mon. Jamie Gilils*. Who else could be credited, somewhat, for gonzo, which destroyed the narrative nature of adult, but could also […]
Frankenstein: Une histoire d’amour (1974)
AKA Frankenstein 95 and why does Frankenstein have so many movies with years after its name? Obsessed with creating life, Count Victor Frankenstein starts on animals, moves up to cadavers and freaks everyone out around him — his teachers, the lcoal government and even his own family — as he dreams of getting a real person […]
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Sometimes, a movie connects stars on the rise and stars on the fall and other times, it captures stars that continue to burn no matter their trajectory. So consider this six-day wonder, this public domain piece of nothing, as both the most important movie some people ever made, a forgotten piece of nothing made for […]
Ghost Story: Episode 2 “The Concrete Captain”
Ed Lucas (Stuart Whitman) has found his wife Kate (Gena Rowlands) the perfect souvenir. The Concrete Captain is a small chunk of concrete with a miniature harpoon in it. Lucky for him — and maybe not so good, really, when you see how it all happens — she loves it. She’s actually obsessed with it. […]
Vampyres (1974)
José Ramón Larraz went to school for philosophy, became a comic book writer and then made some wild movies, like Whirlpool, which Roger Ebert negatively reviewed — I mean, it sounds great to me — by saying that it was genuinely sickening film. It has to do with various varieties of sex, yes, but its main […]
The Surprise Visit (2022)
Juliette and her husband plan on surprising her mother, who ends up being out of town, which is what her gardener (Eric Roberts, who in the mid 1990s was present for a deal I made with several demons to secure the future release of several Italian and American exploitation films on a format that would […]
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