The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
Sergio Martino’s directorial efforts have run the gamut — from straight exploitation (Mondo Sex and Mountain of the Cannibal God, which features Stacy Keach and Ursula Andress, as well as real animal mutilation which we’d never endorse) to horror (Island of the Fishmen, which in addition to starring Barbara Bach and Joseph Cotten, was re-edited by […]
DANGEROUS WOMEN: Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Sometimes, when you watch a horror film, you’re lied to by a title which promises you something that the film cannot or will not deliver. Not so with Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos. Franco promises you lesbians and vampires and he delivers. He also delivers plenty of late 60’s style and a space age jazz soundtrack that threatens […]
DANGEROUS WOMEN: A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)
If you were a well-to-do woman in Italy in the 1970s, chances are — based on the movies that I have seen — that you are about to killed, have killed someone, are having a lesbian affair, are on drugs or all of the above. Carol (Florinda Bolkan, Don’t Torture a Duckling) is one of those […]
GEORGE ROMERO TRIBUTE: There’s Always Vanilla (1971)
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be reviewing several of George Romero’s most well-known — and in this case, least known — works. As a filmmaker that came from Sam’s hometown, as well as one of most interesting voices in American genre filmmaking, there’s plenty to celebrate. Rather than focus on a film like Night of […]
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