88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Love & Crime (1969)
“King of Cult” Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shogun’s Joy of Torture) shares four stories of real-life crimes of passion involving women throughout Japan’s history, including the Hotel Nihonkaku Murders; Oden Takahash, the poison wife and last woman to be executed by beheading in Japan; serial killer Yoshio Kodaira and Sada Abe, whose story was […]
MILL CREEK BLU-RAY BOX SET: Bewitched The Complete Series
Bewitched aired throughout the most tumultuous time in modern history — hyperbole, that could also be today, but true, as rehearsals for this show’s first episode were on the day Kennedy was shot and the episode “I Confess” was interuppted by Martin Luther King Jr.’s death — from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Man, Christopher Lee may rival Donald Pleasence for not being able to say no — I say this with full knowledge that the former turned down Halloween while the latter said yes to that series more than he should have — and here he played Sax Rohmer’s “yellow peril” character of Fu Manchu, who is […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Mondo Trasho (1969)
June 30- July 6 Puke Week!: Throwing up isn’t very funny, but making your internet friends watch a puke movie is! Chickens lose their heads. The Bombshell (Mary Vivian Pierce) rides the bus and reads Hollywood Babylon. A foot fetishist (David Lochary) appears and licks her toes while she dreams that she’s in a fairy […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 99 Women (1969)
This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who transitioned from syndicating radio and TV shows to being arrested, along with his girlfriend, Mariella Novotny — who was played by Britt Eklund in Scandal […]
RADIANCE BOX SET RELEASE: The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (1969, 1972)
We all know Lone Wolf and Cub in the U.S. Before that, Tomisaburô Wakayama starred in these three films, which combine Italian Westerns with Eurospy for a series of saucy, spicy and delicious dishes. Killer’s Mission (1969): Directed by Shigehiro Ozawa, this film introduces Ichibê Shikoro, a secret agent/doctor/all-around tough guy who has been hired to protect […]
DEAF CROCODILE BLU RAY RELEASE: Prague Nights (1969)
Deaf Crocodile Films, in association with distribution partner Comeback Company, has restored this little seen in the U.S. late 1960s Czech occult/horror anthology. Prazske Noci (Prague Nights) is inspired by Black Sabbath and features episodes directed by Milos Makovec, Jiri Brdecka and Evald Schorm. I love how they referred to this movie: “a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Paranoia (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this on Monday, Jan. 20 at 7:00 p.m. at Los Feliz 3 in Los Angeles, CA (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. 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 […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: Fear In the Philippines: The Complete Blood Island Films
From 1959 to 1971, Filipino filmmakers Eddie Romero and Gerry de León —along with Hemisphere Pictures marketing consultant Samuel M. Sherman—booked flights for drive-in audiences to Blood Island. This dark den of zombies, medical experiments, wanton women and terror would last four movies that fans of exploitation films have obsessed over ever since. I’ve loved these movies ever since I […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA (AND SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE): Satan’s Sadists (1969) and Angel’s Wild Women (1971)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Satan’s Sadists (1969): Al Adamson made his breakthrough with this movie, going on to direct Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Cinderella […]
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