WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Tale of the Dean’s Wife (1970)
A band of hyper-serious, free-loving student anarchists marches into the woods to workshop a manifesto against their hopelessly uptight, stick-in-the-mud campus dean (Riger Gentry). Naturally, this heavy-duty socio-political planning session immediately devolves into a sprawling forest sex-romp. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the dean’s redheaded wife (Luanne Roberts) is quietly leading a sexual revolution of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Student Nurses (1970)
When Roger Corman got New World Pictures running, he hired Stephanie Rothman — who had been working for him since 1964 as his assistant — to write and direct its second film. Rothman had no idea what an exploitation movie was until she saw a review that called her movie one. She said to Interview, “I […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Brave Bunch (1970)
For some reason, the Sybil Danning Adventure Video line is rich with Greek war movies. I guess they were inexpensive and would never sell unless they put Sybil on the box. Well, guess the fact that I am writing about this nearly fifty years later means it was a good idea. Set during the turbulent […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sinthia: The Devil’s Doll (1970)
Ray Dennis Steckler directed this — oh, I mean Sven Christian — and co-wrote it with Herb Robins, the director of The Worm Eaters and The Brainsucker. The two had worked together on The Thrill Killers and The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters. He also plays Lucifer. Steckler was having a hard time casting the lead, but […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Scorpio ’70 (1970)
Week 7 (Aug 2 – 8) – Muscle Distribution Catalog Muscle Distribution is an exciting new venture that’s hard to sum up with words alone, but if you dig into the catalog, you find a shape that’s more well-defined than any mission statement. Liz is keeping it hot for us. From Muscle’s website: Muscle is a new film distribution […]
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 […]
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