WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Wes Craven’s second full-length film — if we don’t include the porn film The Fireworks Woman that he directed as Abe Snake — is a trip through the Nevada desert that he wrote, produced and directed. You can see it as straight-forward narrative or you can choose to see it as a parable on how man […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High School Girl (1974)
Cugini Carnali translates as First Cousins, but this movie was also titled The Visitor, Hot and Bothered, La Prima, Loving Cousins, and High School Girl. This is the story of Nico d’Altamura (Alredo Pea, who was also in two other commedia sexy all’italiana, the Dagmar Lassander-starring Classe Mista and the Edwige Fenech movie The School Teacher), who is a shy […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High Rolling (1977)
Directed by Igor Auzins and written by Forrest Redlich, who created the Australian soap opera E Street, High Rolling has Tex (Joseph Bottoms) and Alby (Grigor Taylor) leaving behind their carnival jobs to head to the Gold Coast. They soon meet a hitchhiker named Lynn (Judy Davis) and, along with two dancers, Barbie (Wendy Hughes) and Susie […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High Crime (1973)
I have to speak with pride for my Italian filmmaking countrymen: they do not give a fuck. Any other movie these days that would put a child in danger would not do what director Enzo G. Castellari and writers Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino and Leonardo Martín do in this movie. When the question […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Help Me… I’m Possessed (1974)
I’m still trying to figure this out. Made as Nightmare at Blood Castle, this is about Dr. Arthur Blackwood (Bill Greer, who co-wrote the script with Deedy Peters, who were a comedy team; he would go on to write and produce House Calls, Goodnight Beantown and Charles In Charge; she would be in 17 episodes of House Calls), who […]
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