Night, After Night, After Night (1969)
A Jack the Ripper-type serial killer is loose and it looks like the most obvious suspect is a transvestite judge. Yes, it’s 1969 in London and there’s all manner of kinky goings-on, as this proto-slasher and Argento-predating giallo gleefully shows. It’s directed by Lindsay Shotneff, who also brought you Devil Doll, Curse of the Voodoo and several James […]
The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)
We’re back ten years after we first got to Blood Island. Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon have returned in the directing chair, and this time, they’ve brought even more blood, beasts and boobs than they did in their last effort, Brides of Blood. This film was syndicated to TV as Tomb of the Living Dead and […]
The Witchmaker (1969)
I first encountered this movie halfway through a showing in the middle of the night and had no idea what it was. That’s something that people that stream movies miss out on — the total confusion and need to know that arises when you discover a completely deranged movie in the middle of its running […]
Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri (White Angel …Black Angel) (1969(
Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri comes from director Luigi Scattini, who started his career as a journalist before directing movies like Primitive Love with Jayne Mansfield and War Italian Style with Buster Keaton. One of the best things about this mondo film — a genre that is pretty much reality TV before that was a thing or the […]
The Girl from Rio (1969)
Jess Franco, come on down. Welcome back to B&S About Movies! I see that you’re here today with The Girl From Rio, a sequel to The Million Eyes of Sumuru and based on Sax Rohmer’s Sumuru character. You did have help on this one — it was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who collaborated with you […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: Malenka (1969)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bill Van Ryn is the man behind the website Groovy Doom and the zine Drive-In Asylum. You should grab an issue after reading this. Spanish filmmaker Amando de Ossorio will most likely be forever remembered as the creator of the Blind Dead series, but his first horror-themed film was 1969’s Malenka, which was eventually released […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
Riddle me this, you trash-cinema loving degenerate: What do you get when you cross Rick Simon from a Magnum, P.I spinoff with a guy who made a movie about a brain machine with Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (The Brain Machine, 1977), then one of the too many bigfoot-horror movies with a TV western actor who […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: The House That Screamed (1969)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Andolina is back to watch another movie for us. If you like his stuff, check out his site Wrestling with Film. The House that Screamed aka La Residencia, is a Spanish horror film from the director Narciso (Chicho) Ibáñez Serrador. He is mostly known for a game show and the TV series Historias […]
The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969)
Despite being born in Bakersfield, CA, Barry Mahon volunteered to be in Britain’s Royal Air Force in 1941, achieving a record of five confirmed kills, two probables and three damaged planes, which earned him the British Distinguished Flying Cross in 1985. He was shot down in August of 1942, captured and imprisoned at Stalag Luft […]
The Devil’s Eight (1969)
Oh American International Pictures. You knew exactly what the kids wanted. In 1969, they wanted their own version of The Dirty Dozen. Who better to give it to them than you? Based on a story by AIP story editor Larry Gordon and the first draft was by James Gordon White. It was eventually rewritten in ten […]
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