The Orientals (1960)
Romolo Marcellini was all over the mondo fad, creating films like Taboos of the World and Macabro. Here, his camera explores the emancipation of women in the Far East. That said — none of these stories are true, all shot like a mondo but obviously scripted stories. Akiko Wakabayashi — Aki from You Only Live Twice — and […]
The Girl In Lover’s Lane (1960)
Also known as The Young and the Damned, this is the story of two drifters: Danny (Lowell Brown, High School Caesar), a rich kid who has run away from home, and “Big Stupid” Bix (Brett Halsey, Touch of Death, The Devil’s Honey), a long-time hobo who is mentoring the former. Bix begins to make lovey eyes with an innocent waitress named […]
The Sinister Urge (1960)
For its time, The Sinister Urge was pornography. Today, it could probably play on normal television. In 1959, Ed Wood finished writing The Racket Queen and got producer Roy Reid of Headliner Productions to cough up the dough. Obviously, Ed was influenced by Psycho, just like every exploitation filmmaker at the time. If you’ve watched more than one […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
Film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane have selected this movie as one of the 15 most meritorious British B films made between World War II and 1970. That has to be worth something, correct? Director Ernest Morris and writer Brian Clemens worked together on several films, including Operation Murder, On the Run, The Betrayal, Three Sundays to Live […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Craig Edwards is an award-winning blogger as well as a self-proclaimed Media Guy and a consumer of pop culture for a lot of years. He also writes a great blog called Let’s Get Out of Here! Famed low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer helms this science fiction flick which has apparently fallen […]
CHILLING CLASSICS MONTH: Body in the Web (1960)
Also known as Ein Toter Hing im Netz or A Corpse Hung in the Web, this West German horror film is all about Gary, a nightclub manager who invites several pretty ladies to strip dance in Singapore. They crash land on the way, make it to an island and find a giant spider web. Soon, Gary […]
2018 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 13: Black Sunday (1960)
Day 13 of the Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge is And on the 13th Day There Was Only Black and White. Greyscale is also acceptable. There was no choice for me other than the master’s finest work: Mario Bava’s seminal Black Sunday. This was Bava’s directorial debut — although he had already directed several scenes without credit in other […]
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