ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Lies And Deceit: Five Films By Claude Chabrol
With his contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol was a critic for Cahiers du cinéma before becoming the first of them to make a movie. As a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers, he claimed to be “seized by the demon of cinema,” which led […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Torment (1994)
Claude Chabrol made this film from a screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who never finished his version of the film when he started making it back in 1964. Paul (François Cluzet) and Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) have a relationship that falls apart due to his jealousy. L’Enfer means the “inferno of Hell” and that’s what they both […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Antichrist (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally watched this movie back on October 23, 2020 and we’re beyond excited that a new blu ray has been released by Kino Lorber, featuring a brand new 4K restoration by StudioCanal, Raising Hell, a featurette with director/co-writer Alberto De Martino and composer Ennio Morricone, new commentary by Lee Gambin and Sally Christie, a TV […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Betty (1992)
Based on the novel by Georges Simenon, Betty is, well, about Betty (Marie Trintignant), a young alcoholic woman whose affairs cause her to be removed from her family and not allowed to see her two children. One night in a bar, she meets Laure (Stéphane Audran), who takes her in, gives her a luxury hotel room […]
Last of the Grads (2021)
The Coast-to-Coast Killer is coming to town, just in time for high school graduation and the annual lock-in, which would seem to be the time to just lock everyone in their homes, but what do I know, I’m a guy who just watched hundreds of movies and attempts to make sense of them. Sheriff Murray […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Eugenie (1970)
An adaptation and modern-day update of Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, this was the second de Sade film made by Jess Franco*, but by no means the last. In fact, it’s not even the last movie called Eugenie that he would make. While this one is Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (or De […]
NEW KINOCULT MOVIES FOR FEBRUARY
Kino Cult is a new free ad-supported streaming destination for genre lovers of horror and cult films packed with some great movies. These new movies join a growing list of hundreds of new and rare theatrically released cult hits, all presented in beautiful high definition. Additionally, Kino Cult offers an ad-free subscription plan for $4.99 per […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: The Demons (1973)
“Let The Exorcist beware, The Demons are here!” One can only imagine that Jess Franco sat in a theater as Ken Russell’s The Devils ended and thought to himself, “But where’s the sex? I want more of it. I demand more of it! After watching a witch burn, we meet two nuns in a convent, the virginal Margaret […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: In Search of Dracula (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we wade through a month of all things Jess, here’s a sideways version of his work, as scenes from Count Dracula were used to complete this documentary on the life of Dracula. This originally ran on our site on March 13, 2021. When I was a kid, my dad had a paperback shelf filled […]
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