JESS FRANCO MONTH: Lilian (1984)
Lilian, a German teenager, (Katia Bienert, who had no idea that scenes she shot for another movie would wind up in Spain’s first legal hardcore movie) has been stolen by Irina and Jorge (Lina Romay as Candy Coster and Emilio Linder) who have turned her into their slave. Meanwhile, Mario Pereira — yes, probably Al’s […]
HorrorTales.666 Part 2 (2021)
Derek Braasch, Matt Cannon and Marcelo Fabani are the directors and writers of this horror anthology which has several well-known horror actors such as Debbie Rochon, Ari Lehman and Shawn C. Phillips. Eighteen years ago a burglar broke into an author’s house and discovered a computer filled with forbidden stories, which one assumes is the […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Macumba Sexual (1983)
Princesa Obongo (Ajita Wilson) is the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, rising from the dunes of sand and remaking and remixing and redoing Vampyros Lesbos by way of Lorna the Exorcist — even ending with Lina screaming — but in a way that makes this its own film worth watching. Is Obongo even a real person? Or is […]
Ghost Story: Episode 8 “House of Evil”
For an episode that uses the Bewitched house, this Circle of Fear/Ghost Story episode just might be the most frightening of the entire series, casting a super young Jodie Foster as Judy, a girl in love with her grandfather, played by Melvyn Douglas. Judy is deaf/mute and her grandfather, well, he’s evil as it gets, giving her […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: La noche de los asesinos (1974)
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe* in the credits and Edgar Wallace in an interview Franco gave — well, we can say that for any krimi or giallo, hmm? — Night of the Skull has Jess Franco making a mystery movie that doesn’t go fully into his usual perverted take on, well, everything. But there’s still plenty […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Sinfonia Erotica (1980)
Based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade — that can be said about a lot of other Jess Franco movies — this is all about the rich Martine de Bressac (Lina Romay, but really Candy Coster, because she has on her blonde wig), who has just returned to her husband Marques Armando de Bressac […]
My Best Part (2020)
Garçon chiffon is directed and written by — as well as starring — Nicolas Maury, who I only knew from Knife+Heart. He plays Jérémie, an actor whose career and love setbacks cause him to move back home to live with his mother Bernadette (Nathalie Baye). You know how Lucio Fulci hated actors? Well, he wasn’t wrong. I […]
IT’S THE DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE!
This week, Bill Van Ryn and Bradley Steele Harding will be hosting two incredible and fantastic films on Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. Up first, Keep My Grave Open and you know how much we love S. F. Brownrigg on the DIA Double Feature! You can watch this on YouTube or […]
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