The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: El Charro de las Calavera (1965)
Bleeding Skull’s Top 50 (July 7 – 13) The middle-brow champions of low-brow horror, Bleeding Skull has picked out some of their favorites from the SWV catalog. They neglected to put I Drink Your Blood or EEGAH! on the list, but I think I can forgive them since they included Ship of Monsters. El Charro […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remains… sex. Violence devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn’t only destroy, it creates and molds as well. Let’s examine closely then this dangerously evil creation, […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Loved One (1965)
Based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy — a novella, as Quentin Tarantino would remind us — by Evelyn Waugh and The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford, this was directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Richardson was coming off Tom Jones, Southern Dr. Strangelove and Isherwood had just written one […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Part of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ so-called Blood Trilogy with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!, this one concerns Adam Sorg, an artist who is seeking the perfect color red for his latest masterpiece. While conventional science would tell you that blood would turn brown when it dries, in this movie, it remains the same garish tone that […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Motorpsycho (1965)
Made just before Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Motorpsycho has bikers Brahmin (Steve Oliver), Slick (Thomas Scott) and Rufus (F. Rufus Owens) assaulting women and killing their husbands. Their next victim is Gail Maddox (Holle K. Winters), the wife of veterinarian Cory Maddox (Alex Rocco). As he gets her to the hospital, the gang have already tracked their […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Monster A Go-Go (1965)
Directed by Bill Rebane and an uncredited Herschell Gordon Lewis, Monster A Go-Go has astronaut Frank Douglas (Henry Hite) — or maybe an alien impersonating him — coming back to Earth and going wild, often being restrained by scientists, not that anyone sees it. Most of the movie seemingly must be inferred from dialogue or […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remains… sex. Violence devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn’t only destroy, it creates and molds as well. Let’s examine closely then this dangerously evil creation, […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Human Duplicators (1965)
Man, the Woolner Brothers put out some wild movies. Directed by Hugo Grimaldi — and writer Arthur C. Pierce — this has the Intergalactic Council send Dr. Kolos (Richard Kiel) on a mission for their galaxy domination program to replace humans with androids just like him. If his mission happens, the world will be taken […]
Il segreto del vestito ross (1965)
Assassination in Rome AKA El secreto de Bill North (The Secret of Bill North) was directed and co-written by Silvio Amadio, who also made Amuck! and Smile Before Death. It was co-written by Giovanni Simonelli, who also wrote Jungle Raiders, Seven Deaths In the Cat’s Eye and Django Shoots First. Dick Sherman (Hugh O’Brien) is an American reporter who has settled in Rome, […]
The Seventh Grave (1965)
The only movie directed by Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo, who used the name Finney Cliff, The Seventh Grave is one wild movie. Written by Caracciolo, Antonio Casale (who plays Jenkins in this movie as the Americanized name John Anderson; he was also assistant director using the name Paul Sciamann) and Alessandro Santini (using the name Edmond W. Carloff; […]
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