House On Straw Hill
This “video nasty” (released under the titles House On Straw Hill, Trauma or Exposé) came out in 1976 and shocked audiences with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. The… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Cry Wilderness
Cry Wilderness (1986), a low budget family film, feels as though it were made twenty years too late. The release of Cry Wilderness may coincide with that of Harry &… Read more »
Bezeten, Het Gat in de Muur
Nils Janssen (Dieter Geissler), a medical student, can’t stop spying on his mysterious neighbor through a tiny hole in the wall. His journalist girlfriend, Marina (Alexandra Stewart), begins to worry… Read more »
The H-Man
The H-Man (1958) is one of Ishirō Honda’s most accomplished films. With an apparent ease Honda is able to combine the pulpy crime story with thrills of the atomic monster… Read more »
Empire Records
Some films capture the zeitgeist so perfectly that they end up forming a kind of feedback loop through which they shape and mold that zeitgeist. Empire Records (1995) is one… Read more »
Baal
In 1970 filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff adapted Bertolt Brecht’s first play Baal into a film for West German television. Helene Weigel was so appalled by Schlöndorff’s modernist adaptation that the film… Read more »
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010) follows the same rape/revenge formula as Yasuomi Umetsu’s Kite (1998) and Mezzo Forte (2001). Mardock Scramble: The First Compression is set in a super… Read more »
The Reckless Moment
The Reckless Moment (1949) opens with Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) going to warn Ted Darby (Shepperd Strudwick) to stay away from her seventeen year old daughter Bea (Geraldine Brooks). Darby… Read more »
Honor Society
Honor (Angourie Rice), a high school senior, dreams of getting as far away from her hometown as she can once she graduates. When she learns that the creepy guidance counselor… Read more »
Righting Wrongs
The new home video release of Righting Wrongs (1986) from Vinegar Syndrome is an exceptional package. Between this release and the deluxe editions of Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) and… Read more »
