Barbara
Barbara (1970) opens with a threesome on a beach at Fire Island. This sex scene, graphic for its time, is undercut by the audio that overlays it. As the images… Read more »
The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party (1971) opens with a scene of a steer being butchered cross-cut with a scene of sex. The hefer’s savage demise is equated with the violent sex that… Read more »
Runaway Daughters
Runaway Daughters (1994) opens with a montage of black and white news footage and television commercials set to the tune “Let The Good Times Roll” before segueing into a drive-in… Read more »
The Inspector Wears Skirts
The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) was producer Jackie Chan’s response to the American Police Academy films. Instead of just replicating those films, The Inspector Wears Skirts focuses exclusively on women,… Read more »
Barbarella
Barbarella (1968), like its contemporary 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), has so often been imitated and referenced that it exists at a remove from its historical moment. It’s not that… Read more »
Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has become something of an institution. His films have been a cultural force since he broke out into the Indie Film scene back in the early nineties. Tarantino’s… Read more »
Arena
Arena (1989) finds producer Charles Band cashing-in on the popularity of kickboxing and pro-wrestling in the late eighties. In a stroke of what could be called marketing genius, Band dresses… Read more »
The Rare Blue Apes Of Cannibal Isle
The Rare Blue Apes Of Cannibal Isle (1974) is one of ten “lost” films that Vinegar Syndrome has restored and released in the commemorative boxed set The Lost Picture Show…. Read more »
Happy Holidays!
It’s Christmas Day so it’s as good a time as any to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a bright New Year. We all hope that everyone has enjoyed… Read more »
Gremlins
“There goes my career in noodles” – Mr. Futterman Gremlins (1984) opens like an old anthology horror comic as the inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) ventures into Chinatown in search… Read more »
