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. […]
Siege of Terror (1970)
Nutty Frog wrote this description of the movie on IMDb and man, it’s so all over the place that I had to share it: “At the Grand Hotel in Miami, Carla falls into the arms of her husband, the eminent Dr. Warren, and confesses to having seen Nick, the man he killed in New York, […]
Fragment of Fear (1970)
Based on the 1965 novel A Fragment of Fear by John Bingham, this concerns Tim Brett (David Hemings), a former drug addict who has turned his life around and written a book detailing his experiences. He visits his aunt, who has helped criminals go straight her entire life. Sadly, one of them strangles her later, […]
The Sensuous Assassin (1970)
Also known as Qui? and Who Are You?, this Léonard Keigel-directed movie has Romy Schneider (Death Watch) as Marina, who starts the movie fighting with her man, Claude (Gabriele Tinti, husband of Laura Gemser), who beats her up and tries to drive his convertible off a cliff and into the sea. He dies — maybe — and she […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Guru the Mad Monk (1970)
The Church of Mortavia needs cash, so Father Guru does what he can, which means getting dead bodies for medical students to experiment on. This may mean stabbing churchgoers in the eyeball or working with vampires and hunchbacks. And while this is supposedly set in the Middle Ages, it was actually shot at New York […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: Trilogy of Swordsmanship (1972)
Three stories, three directors, one Shaw Brothers film. Griffin Yueh Feng directed the first section, ‘The Iron Bow,” which has Master Shi (Tin Ching) fall in love with Ying Ying (Shih Szu), who wants nothing to do with him. She says that only the man who can shoot her father’s sacred bow will be her […]
EUREAKA BOX SET: Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: The Wandering Swordsman (1970)
The wandering swordsman Yu Hsieh Erh (David Chiang) robs bandits and gives their stolen money to the poor. Then he meets a robber named Foolproof Kung, who convinces him he was wrong about the bad guys, so he helps them with a robbery. Bad idea. They’re the bad guys, Wandering Swordsman! This being a Chang […]
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