MONDO MACABRO BLU RAY RELEASE: School of Death (1975)
St. Elizabeth’s Refuge seems like a place that helps the downtrodden women of Victorian England by placing them into the homes of the upper class where they gain fulfilling careers that last for their entire lives. Or, you know, they disappear forever. Now, a rebellious charge named Leonore (Sandra Mozarowsky, Hitler’s Last Train) is trying […]
Grey’s Inbetween (2008)
This is the day in the life of Jane Grey (Natasha Bain, who also wrote some of the script), a black actress struggling between her career, her love life and how she’s dealing with it all. A breakup with a married man has done more damage to her self-esteem than it should have and she […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: New World Order – American Apocalypse (2022)
Man, we were once in a place where this DVD set would have been a cute addition to my collection but I live in 2022 where even conspiracy theory has been ruined. Nothing is fun, but you know, when one of these movies is called 666: New World Order, well, I can still smile through the […]
MONDO MACABRO BLU RAY RELEASE: The Laughing Woman (1968)
I’ve been wanting to see this movie for years and held off, because there’s no way that it can live up to the imagery of the sculpture of a giant woman with a teeth-like door between her thighs that opens to reveal a skeleton that falls out, its head rolling toward camera. But somehow, someway, […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Sadomania (1981)
No, no, not Sodomania and its long dark journey down a tunnel of love. That’s different. Jess Franco’s Sadomania is all about the wacky hijinks that ensue when Olga (Uta Koepke) and Michael (Ángel Caballero) find their honeymoon — who goes to the desert on their wedding trip? — trespasses on the grounds of Magda Urtado (Ajita Wilson, Escape […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Deadly Games (1982)
Deadly Games may have been sold as a slasher, but it’s more of a murder mystery. Sure, the killings are pretty intense — a long drowning, burying a victim alive — but it’s maybe even less a murder mystery and more a late 70s, early 80s small town romantic drama where lots of people swing […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Weiße Haut und schwarze Schenkel (1976)
Look, when you have a movie called White Skin, Black Thighs and Jess Franco directs it, you may know what to expect. What I did not expect was to see a love making scene where people are horizontally dancing on what appears to be dry ice, as smoke pours out all over the place. One of […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: The Bloody Judge (1970)
Judge Jeffreys (Christopher Lee) lives up to his title, sending women and men to the dungeons as witches and traitors. And worse, he also sends them to their deaths. Based on George Jeffreys, the first Baron Jeffreys, he was known as “the hanging judge” thanks to the rough handling of his cases, including a series […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Murphy’s Law (1986)
Lee J. Thompson and Charles Bronson wore together several times. Six, to be exact, with this movie, St. Ives, The White Buffalo, Caboblanco, 10 to Midnight and The Evil That Men Do making up the full list of their collaborations. Writer Gail Morgan Hickman’s (The Enforcer, Death Wish IV: The Crackdown) script was one that Cannon liked, but […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: The Girl from Rio (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth time this movie has been on our site. Twice —December 5, 2019 and April 27, 2020 from me — and on November 25, 2020 from Phil Bailey. Here’s Phil’s take. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Phil Bailey is a long time photographer and film writer, who doesn’t actually hate everything, but has no fear […]
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