I Eat Your Skin
I first encountered I Eat Your Skin (1971) on one of Rhino Home Video’s Elvira’s Midnight Madness VHS tapes. This low budget voodoo flick shot in Florida in 1964 looked… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Jeans Blues: No Future
Jeans Blues: No Future (1974) reunites Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972) stars Tsunehiko Watase and Meiko Kaji for Kaji’s final film at Toei Studios. To helm Jeans Blues: No Future, Toei… Read more »
Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough (1977) follows Billy Clyde Puckett (Burt Reynolds) and “Shake” Tiller (Kris Kristofferson) as they play a Super Bowl season for team owner “Big Ed” (Robert Preston) and navigate a… Read more »
L’uomo senza memoria
L’uomo senza memoria (1974) opens in London with the amnesiac Ted (Luc Merenda) confronted with an old criminal accomplice who is convinced that Ted is faking his condition to rob… Read more »
Woman With Red Hair
Woman With Red Hair (1979) sees filmmaker Tatsumi Kumashiro returning again to the fringes of Japanese society to tell a tale of sexual comodafication and societal oppression. Like the torrential… Read more »
Brannigan
After he failed to secure the lead role in Dirty Harry (1971), John Wayne made McQ (1974) then he went on to do another cop picture, Brannigan (1975). Brannigan takes… Read more »
Executive Action
Eleven years after collaborating on the fantastic Western film Lonely Are The Brave (1962), director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo made Executive Action (1973). As the Watergate scandal and… Read more »
Saint Jack
Saint Jack (1979) is the first of two films that director Peter Bogdanovich made with actor Ben Gazzara. And like their second collaboration, They All Laughed (1981), Saint Jack has… Read more »
Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea
The Italian title of the film known in english as Tragic Ceremony (1972), Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea, is by far a more apt and… Read more »
The Honeymoon Killers
Leonard Kastle’s only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers (1970), is often labeled a cult classic though through its influence, tenacity, and cultural significance it deserves to be heralded as… Read more »
