JESS FRANCO MONTH: El llanero (1963)
The Jaguar comes early in the career of Jess Franco and, as with much of Italian and Spanish directors, he was working on a western. Venezuela, 1863. Colonel Saltierra (Georges Rollin) brazenly attacks the home of Colonel Mendoza (Felix Dafauce), murdering everyone except for the man’s son Jose (Jose Suarez) and a servant named Juano […]
GRIMOIRE DVD RELEASE: Texas Chainsaw Mascara (2022)
Bill Zebub has made some movies with wild titles, like The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made (the playing card cover tormented me when I used to see this at the sadly departed Kennywood West Coast Video), Dickless Zombies and Loving a Vegetable. Well, this has a great title and the minute the screener was opened — not by […]
WELL GO USA BLU RAY RELEASE: Death Knot (2021)
When your film starts with a woman walking into the forest and hangs herself, you know that in no way is this going to be an easy ride. That woman was the mother of Hari (Cornelio Sunny, who also directed and co-wrote this with Ike Klose) and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore) and she’s been […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: La cripta de las condenadas (2012)
The poster for this movie? Gorgeous. The description? “A group of women is locked in a cemetery crypt, convicted of an old curse. This kind of succubi, lewd and wicked, indulging years pass all kinds of sexual pleasures.” The actual movie? Jess Franco in one or two rooms watching women writhe around and zoom in […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Devil’s Island Lovers (1972)
When you hear Jess Franco Women In Prison movie, your mind may go to his more salacious efforts like Isla the Wicked Warden, Justine, Barbed Wire Dolls, Women Behind Bars, Love Camp, Sadomania or 99 Women, nearly all movies that push the very boundaries of taste and morality to their limits. This movie isn’t that. Beatriz Coblan (Geneviève Robert, who […]
MIKE JUSTICE’S TOP 10 FAVORITE 80’s FLOP COMEDIES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mike Justice is the only illegitimate offspring born of a short-lived union between a frustrated English horror movie star and an American film festival groupie. His legacy, therefore, is to obsessively pursue a litany of ill-defined ambitions in the industry (editor, director, actor) while also falling hard and fast for anything with […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Women in Cellblock 9 (1977)
Also known as Escape from the Island of Death and Tropical Inferno, this Jess Franco directed and written film has — trigger warning — lots of nudity from its sixteen at the time lead actress Susan Hemingway (Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties, Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun). She’s Maria, one of four girls in cellblock 9, […]
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