JESS FRANCO MONTH: Les Amazones du Temple d’or (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTES: We originally covered this movie on January 24, 2021. It’s Jess Franco month so et’s talk about it again. Alain Payet — working under the name James Gartner* — mostly worked in adult films and supposedly directed this, but a few minutes in and you realize that no, you’re watching another Jess Franco […]
Help (2021)
A painful breakup sends Grace (Emily Redpath) to Liv (Sarah Alexandra Marks) and Edward’s (Louis James) country manor. Before she even sets foot in their home, a neighbor (Blake Ridder, who also directed and wrote this) tries to warn her. But about what? Well, Grave and Edward aren’t getting along too well. And Grade wonders, […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Der Ruf der blonden Göttin (1977)
Susan (Ada Tauler) has come to Haiti to live with her husband Jack (Jack Taylor) and when you realize that this movie is also called Porno Shock, Voodoo Passion and Call of the Blonde Goddess, you know what you’re in for. Housekeeper Inès (Muriel Montossé) explains that this is a place of sorcery. And then Susan finds […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: She Killed In Ecstasy (1971)
So yes, this is the same cast and crew as Vampyros Lesbos and pretty much the same story as Venus In Furs and Ms. Muerte, but look, if Soledad Miranda made a movie where all she did was eat soup, I’d watch it. This time around, she’s Mrs. Johnson, the widow of a scientist who was doing […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Daughter of Dracula (1972)
Luisa (Carmen Yazalde, who is billed as Britt Nichols, and also shows up in Franco’s Jungfrauen-Report, A Virgin Among the Living Dead and Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein) learns from her dying mother that her family — the Karlsteins not the Karnsteins — are all vampires and their leader, Count Karlstein still lies in half-dead, half-alive stasis in the crypt […]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
In a world of hot tags and listicles that opine on the worst sequels ever made, worries over whether this movie is too woke or not enough woke, and the argument that it’s either the worst or best movie, the truth is movies are awesome because you make your own mind up — do it, […]
Heels Season 1 (2021)
Full disclosure: I’ve been a professional wrestler for nearly 27 years, so I’m going to be somewhat tough on this show, because I have a unique insight into its realism. I’m excited that it exists — it’s not a cheap wrestling cash-in, as its executive produced by Emmy nominee Mike O’Malley and Academy Award nominee […]
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