WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Neither the Sea nor the Sand (1972)
You know those movies that feel like a cold, damp fog rolling off the English Channel? The ones where everyone wears thick knit sweaters and looks like they haven’t seen a sunbeam since the late sixties? That’s Neither the Sea Nor the Sand. It’s a romance from beyond the grave flick that treats romance with […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Man from Deep River (1972)
Call it Il paese del sesso selvaggio (The Country of Savage Sex). Or refer to it as Deep River Savages and Sacrifice! Or just say it by the name most of the U.S. saw it as, Man from Deep River. Whatever title you see it as, you can claim to have seen the first movie in Italy’s […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 9: Frenzy (1972)
April 9: Do You Like Hitchcock? — Write about one of his movies. After Torn Curtain and Topaz were failures, Alfred Hitchcock went back to murder. After those two espionage films, this was an actual Hitchcock film, one in which former RAF squadron leader Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), a man with a history of angry […]
VINEGAR SYNDROME BLU RAY RELEASE: Forgotten Gialli: Volume Eight
This is the seventh Forgotten Gialli set from Vinegar Syndrome. You can check out my articles on the others here: Forgotten Gialli 1 Forgotten Gialli 2 Forgotten Gialli 3 Forgotten Gialli 4 Forgotten Gialli 5 Forgotten Gialli 6 Forgotten Gialli 7 This box set has the following movies: Rings of Fear (1978): This is the third […]
Bigfoot: Man or Beast? (1972)
May I never run out of Bigfoot documentaries. It took three directors — Lawrence Crowley (who also directed 1976’s In Search of Bigfoot), William F. Miller (the man who made Mysteries from Beyond the Triangle) and J.H. Moss — to make this, a film that follows Robert W. Morgan as he tries to find Bigfoot. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
Westchester County played host to a veritable army of maniacs, including Ed Adlum (Shriek of the Mutilated), the Findlays (Snuff) and Ed Kelleher (Prime Evil), who were armed with a camera, $24,000, some stage blood and cases of beer to pay off the cast. The result is a movie that seems like it could fit […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Horror Express (1972)
While many “Euro-horror” films of the 70s feel like fever dreams, Horror Express (originally titled Pánico en el Transiberiano) is a remarkably tight, imaginative, and eerie locked-room mystery. It’s a film where the science is baffling, the religion is terrifying, and the mustache on Christopher Lee is legendary as he played Professor Sir Alexander Saxton […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hollywood Babylon (1972)
Before the internet made celebrity downfall a 24-hour commodity, there was Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon. First published in the U.S. in 1965 and promptly banned for a decade, the book was a psychedelic fever dream of Tinseltown’s “true” history. When it finally returned to shelves in 1975, it brought with it the grisly receipts: the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Hitchhikers (1972)
If you’re looking for the exact moment the “Summer of Love” curdled into a ditch of despair, look no further than this output from the husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Beverly and Fred Sebastian. The same pair that gave us the swampy vengeance of ’Gator Bait and the heavy-metal slasher Rocktober Blood decided to take a stab […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Group Marriage (1972)
After pretty much creating the nurse cycle for Corman with The Student Nurses and then directing The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman and her husband Charles Swartz left New World for Larry Woolner’s new Dimension Films. It was still exploitation, and she didn’t have much creative control, but it was more money and the opportunity to own some […]
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