MONDO MACABRO BLU RAY RELEASE: Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
Shinya Tsukamoto made this after Tetsuo and instead of the monochromatic cyrber punk madness of that movie, he’s somehow taken a manga by Daijiro Morohoshi and made a movie that is at once horrifying and charming, as if Spielberg wanted to make a Fulci movie and decided that it should be as cartoony as possible while […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Las chicas del tanga (1987)
Lina Romay directed 13 movies in between starring in 123 films, most of them with the man for whom she became a muse, Jess Franco. Surprisingly, this film — despite a title that means The Girls In Thong — is nowhere near as racy as the other movies Franco made on this end of his career, […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
You know how you know this is a Jess Franco movie? Because he plays the father of Maria (Lina Romay), a man that has been trying to assault her, so she kills him and ends up in the prison that forms the setting for this film, a place where The Wardress (Monica Swinn, Female Vampire, Hitler’s Last […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Un silencio de tumba (1974)
So what if Jess Franco made a giallo? Or a takeoff on Ten Little Indians for that matter? And what if it concerned an actress named Annette Lamark (Glenda Allen, Confessions of a Window Cleaner) who invites her friends to an island that she’s just bought — obviously her movies are doing well — that’s home to […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: 99 Women (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Way back during the week of Bruno Mattei, we covered this movie. All the way back on May 16, 2021 and now it’s back with some edits. This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Knights Templar and Freemasons (2022)
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar were also known as the Order of Solomon’s Temple. A Catholic military order founded in 1119 and based in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where they protected pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. Beyond their skill in battle, 90% of […]
MONDO MACABRO BLU RAY RELEASE: Sukkubus (1989)
Sukkubus – den Teufel im Leib (Sukkubus – The Devil In the Body) is a Swiss/German co-production that takes you into the snow and ice-covered mountains as three men — Senn the leader (Peter Simonischek), Hirt (Giovanni Früh) and teenage Handrbub (Andy Voß) — as they drive their herd through the treacherous Swiss Alps, starting the story […]
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