WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Tarzana, the Wild Girl (1969)
Sir Donovan (Gualtiero Isnenghi) learns that a tribe in Kenya has a white woman, Tarzana (Femi Benussi, Bloody Pit of Horror, So Sweet, So Dead), whom he believes is his granddaughter, Elizabeth. Somehow, she has survived the airplane crash that her parents died in over the African jungle. The rich elderly man and his niece, Doris […]
CBS BLU-RAY BOX SET RELEASE: Star Trek: The Original Series (1960-1969)
Star Trek is central in so much of my life. I have formed lasting friendships with people all the way back to high school through my love of the show, and it’s been pivotal to my life. That said, I haven’t kept up much because, I have to confess, I am and always will be […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Saint Volume 1 (1969)
Created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 through a series of novels, The Saint follows Simon Templar—a suave, philanthropic globetrotter, amateur detective, and modern-day Robin Hood who takes down villains the law can’t touch. Easily identified by his signature halo icon drawn above his name, Templar became a cornerstone of adventure fiction. The character hit legendary […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sinner’s Blood (1969)
When their mother passes away, orphaned sisters Penelope (Nanci Sheldon) and Patricia (Cristy Beal) are sent away to live with their aunt (Drusilla Hoy) and her deeply dysfunctional family in a small southern town. The household is an immediate pressure cooker of taboos: the uncle (Paul Fischer) harbors aggressive desires, and Penelope wastes no time […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Seducers (1969)
By the loosest of categorizations, we can call this movie a giallo; it’s also an example of just how scummy an Italian exploitation movie can get. Also known as Top Sensation, Sensations and Swinging Young Seductresses, this movie has quite the plot: Mudy (French author Maud de Belleroche in her only movie) is the mother of a shy and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Paranoia (1969)
Umberto Lenzi, come on down! We’re eager for you to shock us, titillate us, and perhaps even thrill us a bit. Oh, and you’ve brought Carroll Baker with you! Please, show us the tale you’ve crafted! Released in Italy as Orgasmo, it was one of the first X-rated movies in the U.S., and the ads definitely […]
The Hang-Up (1969)
Directed and written by John Hayes (End of the World, Dream No Evil, Garden of the Dead, Grave of the Vampire, Jailbait Babysitter, and so many more; he also made adult films like Baby Rosemary, Hot Lunch and Pleasure Zone as Harold J. Perkins), The Hang-Up is all about vice cop Sgt. Robert Walsh (Tony Vorno), who the force uses as an undercover […]
The Fourth Wall (1969)
Marco (Paolo Turco), the son of a plastics manufacturer, has just returned from four years away studying in England. Upon his comeback to Italy, he finds nothing but aimlessness. The upper class is disconnected, and the youth are in revolt. For this he spent a night in a prison cell after protesting? Directed by Adriano […]
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 Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969)
No, not Evil Eye. That said, Letícia Román, Dante DiPaolo and Roberto Calvi are in both movies. This The Girl Who Knew Too Much stars Adam West as Johnny Cain, nightclub owner and adventurer. Directed by Francis D. Lyon, this was his chance to escape the typecasting of Batman, and no, that didn’t go down. But what […]
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