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 […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)
The only movie directed by John Leone (he also wrote the Richard Fleischer movie Tough Enough), this is also known as The Goodbye Run and The Last of the Cowboys. But if you’re expecting Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed from the title, you won’t get it. This is filmed in the dark, features moments of […]
Gialloparma (Scandalous Crimes) (1999)
Margot (Natacha Amal) has come back to Parma to get revenge for being raped when she was younger, working with her former love, Giulio (Kaspar Capparoni) and Judge Bocchi (Robert Hossein). Those men who attacked her are the wealthiest and most powerful people, yet she’s very determined. This was directed and written by Alberto Bevilacqua and […]
Date for a Murder (1966)
Directed by Mino Guerrini, who wrote it with Fernando Di Leo based on “Tempo di massacro” by Franco Enna, this has an American detective, Vince Dreyser (George Ardisson), as its hero. He meets up with an old friend, Walter Dempsey (Hans von Borsody), who soon goes missing. This feels as much Eurospy as giallo, but […]
ARROW 4K UHD RELEASE: Red Planet (2000)
Mankind has been terraforming Mars, knowing the Earth won’t be livable for long. Yes, pre-Elon Musk, this was a movie. When the air levels start to go wrong, Mars-1 is sent to investigate. The team includes Mission Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), co-pilot Ted Santen (Benjamin Bratt), science officer Bud Chantilas (Terence Stamp), mechanical systems […]
ARROW 4K UHD RELEASE: Lost In Space (1998)
The lineage of this story is a rabbit hole of adaptation. While the 1965–1968 CBS series is the primary source, it was essentially a “cover version” of Gold Key Comics’ Space Family Robinson, which itself was a futuristic riff on the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson. By the time director Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2) […]
RADIANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Illustrious Corpses (1976)
When several important judges are murdered, Inspector Rogas (Lino Ventura) is put on the case, but what starts as a simple detective story soon becomes a conspiracy thriller. Based on Leonardo Sciascia’s book, this was directed by Francesco Rosi (The Mattei Affair, The Moment of Truth), who wrote the script along with Tonino Guerra and […]
RADIANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Malpertuis (1971)
Malpertuis was directed by Harry Kümel (Daughters of Darkness) and was based on the Jean Ray novel of the same name. It was released in the U.S. as The Legend of Doom House, which is not as classy a title, but you know me. I like the sleaze. Jan (Mathieu Carrière) is a sailor who has […]
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