RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Carnival of Souls (1962)
This 1962 American independent horror film is literally an auteur production: it was written, produced and directed by Herk Harvey, as well as featuring him in the role of the spectral figure that haunts its heroine. While teaching and directing plays at the University of Kansas, Harvey started working for the Centron Corporation as a film […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Faces of Death (1978)
I’ve discussed the video store of my youth often, but no movie in Prime Time Video inspired such dread as Faces of Death, its gigantic clamshell package covered with a note scrawled in sharpie: YOU MUST BE 18 TO RENT. This feels like a movie made from VHS, as where were people going to see this […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Lorna (1964)
Russ Meyer, who directed this and co-wrote it with James Griffith, who also plays the Man of God who speaks at the open and close of this, said that Lorna is “a brutal examination of the important realities of power, prophecy, freedom and justice in our society against a background of violence and lust, where simplicity is only […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: High School Confidential! (1958)
Mike Wilson (Russ Tamblyn) goes undercover as Tony Baker to get inside a high school narcotics operation. His cover is that he lives with Gwen Dulaine (Mamie Van Doren) who acts as his aunt but really wants to seduce him. He keeps his cover, which means he’s some kind of robot, because living with Mamie […]
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