WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Teasers (1975)
The High-School Student was released internationally as The Teasers, Under-graduate Girls, Sophomore Swingers and Teasers. It’s a commedia sexy all’italiana that introduced Gloria Guida, who would appear in four out of the five films in this series. She’s also in the movies Being Twenty and The Bermuda Triangle. She plays Loredana d’Amico, a girl for whom sex […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Switchblade Sisters (1975)
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Death Stalk (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Death Stalk was on the CBS Late Movie on November 22, 1976 and November 24, 1977. I write a lot about how old TV was the unknown. TV Guide could prepare you for a program, but sometimes movies blow your mind, and you’re in no way ready. This led to kindertrauma of the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Beyond the Bermuda Triangle was on the CBS Late Movie on August 30, 1977 and May 9, 1978. Also known as Beyond This Place There Be Dragons, and wow, what a high-minded title for a TV movie — this movie is all about Fred MacMurray as a yacht-sailing daddy who falls for a gold digger who actually […]
A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. If you haven’t yet learned about the true-life story of celebrity murderess Sada Abe, give director Noboru Tanaka’s roman porno A Woman Called Sada Abe a watch to start your journey down a bizarre rabbit hole. Junko Miyashita […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Kill the Ninja (1975)
Three super-kicking rogues — Kim King (Bobby Kim), Pong Macau (Hwang Jang-Lee) and Sintaro (Kwan Yuen-Moon — hatch a plan to steal two million dollars stashed inside a wooden Buddha, originally sent by the Red Chinese to their comrades in Hong Kong. Of course, they aren’t the only ones after the cash, as a ruthless […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Bellas de Noche (1975)
Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Assault With a Deadly Weapon (1975)
Poliziotteschi is but one of the many waves of Italian exploitation and one that takes American inspiration — Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Death Wish — and uses it to explore the Years of Lead, a time of social unrest, political upheaval, terrorism, rising crime and outfight mob warfare from the 1960s to 1980s. Much like the vigilante films […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Human Factor (1975)
Edward Dmytryk may be best known for his film noir efforts, such as Crossfire, Cornered and Murder, My Sweet. In 1947, he was named one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and served time in prison for contempt of court. However, in 1951, to save his career, […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Rolls-Royce Baby (1975)
DAY 29. Free space! I was trying to think of a movie I could watch to fill my free time and remembered that, somehow, some way, I had an unwatched Lina Romay movie. It’s kismet because yesterday I was looking back at my review of Jack the Ripper, and I had not succumbed to the Stockholm […]
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