The Party at Kitty and Stud’s (1970)
Otherwise known as The Italian Stallion, this movie was a big deal in the mid-1970’s, with its urban legend stretching well into the 1980’s. Basically, it’s a soft core movie with a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone in the lead, but there were rumors that it originally had hardcore penetration scenes. That’s since been debunked. Stallone made this […]
Moonfire (1970)
Michael Parkhurst directed exactly one movie, this 1970 effort about truckers battling Nazis in Mexico to rescue a pilot. There’s also a millionaire gone missing, a fortune hidden inside a haul of lettuce and a lost space capsule. Yes, really. Parkhurst also appeared in the 1992 film Hot Under the Collar. Everything else on his IMDB […]
Black Brigade (1970)
Originally entitled Carter’s Army, this made for TV movie debuted on ABC on January 27, 1970. It was written by David Kidd, who would also write The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Aaron Spelling, who would go on to dominate 1970’s TV with Mod Squad, The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch, Family, Vega$, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and many more. Captain Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd, […]
American Horror Project vol. 2: Dream No Evil (1970)
Arrow Video’s American Horror Project is dedicated to “its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of US independent genre moviemaking.” The second volume — the first had Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, The Witch Who Came from the Sea and The Premonition — lives up to that bold […]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
A few things amaze me about this movie: That it was intended as a sequel to 1967’s Valley of the Dolls, a veritable smorgasbord of sleaze and stupidity that I adore with all my heart, but which was a sizeable mainstream success. That 20th Century Fox would hire Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert to make it. […]
Toomorrow (1970)
Harry Saltzman had produced James Bond and Harry Palmer films, but he wanted to work with Don Kirshner, who had just had a big success as the producer of The Monkees. They had a three-picture deal, but it barely made it through this movie. Saltzman had originally brought on David Benedictus to write the film, […]
The Deserter (1970)
A young soldier escapes a seemingly endless war and winds up in the middle of an entirely different battle. Now he’s trapped between the desires of two desperate women. It’s another lost Greek film found by the folks at Mondo Macabro, who seem to specialize in discovering movies that you never knew about that you suddenly […]
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass (1970)
This 1970 documentary about Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan that was directed and produced by Ray Laurent, whose only other credits involve editing some films, including one of the Lemon Grove Kids films that Ray Dennis Steckler directed. Within this movie, there’s plenty of ritual footage, as well as interviews with LaVey, his […]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Other than the films of Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace, The Girl Who Knew Too Much), there’s no other film that has no influenced the giallo. In fact, the most well-known version of the form starts right here with Dario Argento’s 1970 directorial debut. Until this movie, he’d been a journalist and had helped write Leone’s Once […]
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)
In the fourth of five Stray Cat Rock (or Alleycat Rock) films, two Japanese men help a deserter from the Vietnam War escape to Sweden and fund their plan by selling LSD. But soon, rival gangs find out about the drug deal and want a piece of the action for themselves. Meiko Kaji returns again, as does the […]
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