CULTPIX MONTH: The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972)
After Disney made their movies and before Robert Rodriguez turned the masked swordsman into a high-budget nineties blockbuster franchise, as well as decades after Tyrone Power slashed his way through Old California, the grindhouse circuit decided Johnston McCulley’s legendary hero needed way fewer rules, way more nudity and a healthy dose of European co-production madness. […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Zorgon: The H-Bomb Beast from Hell (1972)
A creature is turning a small town into a buffet, and the local authorities are hilariously incompetent. They always are. A fed-up civilian gathers his bravest (or perhaps just most bored) friends to form a vigilante posse. They head straight for Bronson Canyon, the most overused filming location in Hollywood history (seen in everything from […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Night of the Bloody Apes (1972)
Oh René Cardona. Here you are remaking the lucha libre movie you did back in 1962, Las Luchadoras Contra el Medico Asesino, or The Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Doctor or Doctor of Doom, as it was called in the U.S. While this was made in 1969 as La Horripilante Bestia Humana, or The Horrible Man-Beast, this one […]
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 […]
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