RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: A Bucket of Blood (1959)
A Bucket of Blood aspires to art as much as it does junk. Written by Charles B. Griffith, whose name you can associate with films as disparate as Smokey Bites the Dust, Barbarella and Death Race 2000, it’s a tale of trying to figure out how to create art when all you can do is repeat words and images. […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Part of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ so-called Blood Trilogy with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!, this one concerns Adam Sorg, an artist who is seeking the perfect color red for his latest masterpiece. While conventional science would tell you that blood would turn brown when it dries, in this movie, it remains the same garish tone that […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Blood Mania (1970)
Dr. Craig Cooper (Peter Carpenter) is overseeing the care of the dying Ridgeley Waterman (Eric Allison), who is tended to by his daughter Victoria (Maria De Aragon) and round the clock nurse Miss Turner (Leslie Simms). Victoria has repeatedly tried to seduce the doctor, who has problems of his own. He used to perform abortions […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Playgirl Killer (1967)
Director and writer Erick Santamaria only made one movie (or did he? Letterboxd also lists three Spanish-language movies, La masacre de Ponce, La Tormenta and Los hijos del vicio) and this is it. He wrote the script along with his star, William Kerwin, and Kerwin’s brother Harry. Of course, by this point people may have known the actor […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
Ben Saul (Scott Marlowe) is a reform school graduate who is starts classes at a public high school and wins over the students by buying beer for them and getting them into weed. He’s actually working for the syndicate and things start getting out of hand when a kid tries to hold up a gas […]
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