B & S About Movies podcast Episode 120: Academysploitation
This week, Police Academy, which gives way to the genre known — at least by me — as academysploitation. It’s cops, it’s a bit of Animal House, it’s slobs vs. snobs. This episode has Vice Academy, Moving Violations, Fast Food, Hamburger: the Motion Picture and Stewardess School. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2026: Anything That Moves (2025)
Editor’s note: Cinematic Void will be playing this movie on January 24 at 7:00 PM at The Sie Film Center in Denver. You can get tickets here. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict […]
Web of Deception (1971)
Also known as Il Sorriso Del Ragno, The Spider’s Smile and Sweet Blue Sweat, this is the only movie directed by Massimo Castellani, who was assistant director on Bloody Pit of Horror and Perversion Story. It was released on VHS by Magnum Video back in the day. Tony Driscoll (Thomas Hunter) is an insurance man investigating a […]
Maldito Amor (2014)
Arturo (Sebastián Badilla, who directed this with his brother Gonzalo) has been waiting to ask María Elena (Trinidad de La Noi) on a date, but he’s waited too long, and now she’s with a magician, Tatán (Nicolás Luisetti). He decides to make her jealous and starts dating Beatriz (Raquel Calderón), the most popular girl in […]
Delitti (1987)
Directed and written by Giovanna Lenzi (who also appears in this movie as Julie Garrett) and Sergio Pastore (married to Lenzi at the time; he also directed Crimes of the Black Cat), Delitti arrives after the Giallos of the 70s and even the revival in the 80s, as erotic thrillers were just putting a different […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hangup (1974)
Based on The Face of Night by Bernard Brunner, this is the last film for director Henry Hathaway, who directed True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder and Call Northside 777. It’s a blaxploutation film that was distributed by American-International Pictures; amazingly, Hathaway had turned down Rooster Cogburn. Re-released as Super Dude, this is all about heroic black cop Ken […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Group Marriage (1972)
After pretty much creating the nurse cycle for Corman with The Student Nurses and then directing The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman and her husband Charles Swartz left New World for Larry Woolner’s new Dimension Films. It was still exploitation, and she didn’t have much creative control, but it was more money and the opportunity to own some […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Guru the Mad Monk (1970)
The Church of Mortavia needs cash, so Father Guru does what he can, which means getting dead bodies for medical students to experiment on. This may mean stabbing churchgoers in the eyeball or working with vampires and hunchbacks. And while this is supposedly set in the Middle Ages, it was actually shot at New York […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Guy from Harlem (1977)
Directed by Rene Martinez Jr. (Road of Death, The Sexiest Story Ever Told, Supersoul Brother) and written by Gardenia Martinez, this stars Loye Hawkins as cool cat Al Connors, a Mimai detective from Harlem who has been hired by the CIA to protect Mrs. Ashanti (Patricia Fulton), the wife of a leader they’re doing business with. Spies […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Grimm’s Fairy Tales for Adults (1969)
Also known as The New Adventures of Snow White, this sex farce is part of Rolf Thiele’s downward career trajectory, who had once been a mainstream director but increasingly found himself making lower-budget sex comedies. It’s all about Snow White (Marie Liljedahl, who was Eugenie in Eugenie…The Story of Her Journey into Perversion), Cinderella (Eva Rueber-Staier, who […]
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