WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Sugar Cookies (1970)
The 1970s New York film scene was a magical, grimy sandbox. If you ever needed proof that the line between high art, avant-garde theater, and pure exploitation was completely non-existent back then, look no further than Theodore Gershuny’s Sugar Cookies (also known by the arguably sleazier title, Love Me My Way). Just look at the […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Super Man Chu (1973)
Super Cool. Super Quick. Super Deadly. Cooler Than Bond! Quicker Than Fly! Deadlier Than Shaft! His Lethal Body, A Masterpiece in Motion. Released in Hong Kong as Lie ri kuang feng and worldwide as The Stormy Sun, Super Man Chu is set in rural China during the post-imperial era of the 1910s and 1920s and […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Haunting of Rosalind (1973)
The Haunting of Rosalind is a rich tapestry of sibling rivalry, class opportunism and spectral intervention. Set in a grand estate, the story centers on sisters Rosalind (Pamela Payton-Wright) and Dita (Susan Sarandon), whose lives are upended after the passing of their domineering father and the return of their brother, Bernard (Dennis Jay Higgins). Accompanying […]
Lovers Are Wet (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Director Tatsumi Kumashiro’s Lovers Are Wet is a more dramatic entry in the roman porno genre, following drifter Katsu’s (Toru Ohe) return to his hometown, where he vehemently denies who he is to those who remember him well. He […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Single Girls (1973)
An early effort by Beverly and Ferd Sebastian, The Single Girls (also known by alternate titles Bloody Friday and Private School) occupies a fascinating transitional space in exploitation movies. While the sexual content itself tends to lean surprisingly chaste for its premise, the film compensates with a genuinely compelling concept that bridges the gap between […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Tony Breda (Tony Lo Bianco) is a well-respected local in his Italian town, but he’s also a small-time crook with a massive weak spot: he completely idolizes Italo-American mobster Frankie Diomede (Lee Van Cleef), a legendary figure known as “Dio” (“God”). You’ll get it once you see the first few moments of Van Cleef in […]
WEIRD WEDESDAY: The Sinful Dwarf (1973)
The Sinful Dwarf (originally titled Dværgen) occupies a notorious niche in the annals of underground cinema. Directed by Vidal Raski, the film is widely recognized as a bizarre, shocking and controversial artifact of 1970s European genre filmmaking. It takes place in a boarding house managed by a harsh, heavy-drinking mother and her peculiar, pint-sized son, […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Three Musketeers (1973)
Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser, this is a masterclass in swashbuckling cinema. Based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this isn’t some sanitized costume drama; it’s a bustling, brawling and brilliantly funny epic. The story kicks off when a young, hot-headed country bumpkin named d’Artagnan (Michael York) rolls into Paris packing plenty […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Diario segreto da un carcere femminile, or as it’s called in the UK, Love in a Woman’s Prison, is the very first Italian women-in-prison film and marks the directing debut of Rino Di Silvestro, who also wrote it. The censored version is Love and Death in a Women’s Prison and it was also called Secret […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Sex Thief (1973)
Struggling pulp fiction writer and hopelessly incompetent jewel thief Grant Henry (David Warbeck) finds himself failing at crime in the most spectacular way possible. No matter how hard he tries, he gets caught in the act every single time. However, armed with rugged charm and undeniable looks, he manages to turn his absolute criminal failures […]
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