WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave (1971)
Emilio Paolo Miraglia created two gialli — this film and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times. This one goes deeper into the horror realm than the genre’s typical themes. For example, instead of a modern city or a fashion house, we get a crumbling, mist-shrouded estate filled with secret passages and family curses. Lord Alan […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Night of the Bloody Apes (1972)
Oh René Cardona. Here you are remaking the lucha libre movie you did back in 1962, Las Luchadoras Contra el Medico Asesino, or The Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Doctor or Doctor of Doom, as it was called in the U.S. While this was made in 1969 as La Horripilante Bestia Humana, or The Horrible Man-Beast, this one […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Night Creature (1978)
If you want to see what Donald Pleasence movies I’ve seen, here’s the Letterboxd list. I love him because he was a working actor. Like John Carradine, he was there when you needed him. And at times, he’d show just how good he was. But he’s a workmanlike — in a good way — presence […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Neither the Sea nor the Sand (1972)
You know those movies that feel like a cold, damp fog rolling off the English Channel? The ones where everyone wears thick knit sweaters and looks like they haven’t seen a sunbeam since the late sixties? That’s Neither the Sea Nor the Sand. It’s a romance from beyond the grave flick that treats romance with […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Road of Death (1973)
The film follows two couples — Frank (Frank Birch), a man of impressive physique, and his partner, Lisa (Carol Connors), alongside another pair, Joe (Joe Banana) and Dena (Lea Vivot) — who head into the Florida Everglades for a quiet picnic. This is not a good idea at all. Their afternoon of leisure is violently […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: My Body Hungers (1967)
Can director and writer Joe Sarno do a title or what? The story begins with Marcia (Tamara Glynn), a young woman from the country, hitchhiking her way to the city. She isn’t the typical wide-eyed waif; she is acutely aware of the power of her appearance. When a driver picks her up, she essentially trades […]
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