The Virgin Sacrifice (1970)
On IMDb, the first message about this movie says, “Before Virgin, I never put much stock in the idea of a cursed production. Take a film like Incubus. Just because the director’s nephew died, the production company went belly up, and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere. Those could all just be coincidences. Shit […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Red, White and Black (1970)
Also known as Soul Soldier, Black Cavalry and Buffalo Soldier, this John “Bud” Cardos-directed movie is about Eli Brown (Robert DoQui), who escapes all the trouble his sex life gets him into by joining the 10th Cavalry at Fort Davis, which is led by Col. Grierson (Cesar Romero, who we all know from Gilbert Gottfried liked having oranges […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Trader Hornee (1970)
This movie centers on a search party looking for a white goddess named Jane (Elisabeth Knowles), who went missing in the deep, dark jungles of Africa. Leading the expedition is Private Detective Hamilton Hornee (“the e’s are silent”; Buddy Pantsari)) who has been hired by the Bank of Wabash to find the lost child of […]
CULTPIX MONTH: The Sensuous Sorceress (1970)
Sweden, sex, Satanism, seventies. Many are the reasons I watched this. Skräcken har 1000 ögon (Horror Has 1000 Eyes) was directed by Torgny Wickman and occupies a strange, atmospheric intersection between Gothic horror and the early 1970s erotic exploitation boom. While often dismissed as mere sexploitation, the film is surprisingly effective at building a claustrophobic, […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Zero in and Scream (1970)
“When a man climbs on top of a woman, she becomes ugly!“ Man, this killer really has a Madonna Whore complex, huh? Also known as Sex Power and Target Massacre in the UK, this is a sleazy thriller in which Mike (Michael Stearns), an incel who just never makes it with the ladies. Even when Susan (Donna […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Fluctuations (1970)
Forget narrative. Forget logic. Forget everything your teacher told you about decency and linear progression. Fluctuations is a fever dream captured on celluloid, a 1970 sensory assault that feels like it was edited with a chainsaw by someone who spent the previous night huffing industrial glue and reading Marquis de Sade. Imagine a kaleidoscope of […]
CULTPIX MONTH: The Joys of Jezebel (1970)
Directed by Peter Perry Jr. (Honeymoon of Terror, Mondo Mod, My Tail Is Hot) — using the name A.P. Stootsberry — and written by Maurice Smith (the writer of Julie Darling), The Joys of Jezebel has Lucifer (Christopher Stone, not the one you’re thinking of), apparently running a bit low on quota, sending the infamous Jezebel (Luanne Roberts, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Losers (1970)
Also known as Nam Angels, this Jack Starrett-directed film (he also made Run, Angel, Run!, Race with the Devil and Hollywood Man, among others) has a great high concept: a biker gang called The Devil’s Advocates is sent to Cambodia to rescue an American diplomat because they are the only ones who can get the job done. They’re led […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Daughter: I, a Woman Part III (1970)
Directed by Mac Ahlberg and written by Peer Guldbrandsen, this film promises, “NOW the sexual revolution is complete.” We start in another dimension, as an upside-down woman writhes, and then we get an erotic snake scene, and part of me was like, “Yes, this is what I was looking for,” all before such an inconvenience […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hell’s Bloody Devils (1970)
It just makes sense that the Third Reich would regroup in Las Vegas, I guess. FBI agent Mark Adams (John Gabriel) poses as a member of a Sin City organized crime gang to get into the world of war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor) and stop him from his plan to counterfeit U.S. dollars. […]
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