Night Of The Demon
Night Of The Demon (1980) is famous for being the movie where Bigfoot rips off a man’s penis. Night Of The Demon is that rare video nasty that deserves its… Read more »
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Untamed Mistress
Ron Ormond’s low budget quickie Untamed Mistress (1956) follows a doctor and his party on safari into the heart of the African jungle. Here, in gorilla country, the half-wild Velda… Read more »
Tristan & Iseult
Michael J. Murphy was nineteen years old the first time he adapted the twelfth century chivalric romance Tristan and Iseult. Murphy’s first Tristan & Iseult (1970) only exists in a… Read more »
Against The Grain
Against The Grain (2023) isn’t just a special feature on Vinegar Syndrome’s Lost Picture Show boxed set, it’s a film that is both a lover letter to and a history… Read more »
Drive-Away Dolls
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke have made their debut fiction feature together. It’s called Drive-Away Dolls and it follows two women on a road trip who get caught up with… Read more »
Madame Web
Madame Web (2024) would make an ideal case study in studio meddling and second guessing. The sloppy ADR, unfinished special effects and soulless characterization do little to elevate the incoherent… Read more »
Baise-moi
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi have taken the popular maxim that all a movie needs is “a boy, a girl and a gun” and put their own spin on… Read more »
Curse Of Evil
Kuei Chih-Hung’s Curse Of Evil (1982) plays as the Chinese equivalent to Gothic Horror. The film is set entirely in a spooky old mansion; there’s the ominous “curse of the… Read more »
Obsession
Obsession (1976) is director Brian De Palma and writer Paul Schrader’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The title suits the plot of the film, but it also addresses De… Read more »
