Son Of Dracula
Legend has it that in 1972 Ringo Starr called up his friend Harry Nilsson and pitched him the idea of doing a musical film that spoofed the Universal Monster movies… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Stunt Squad
Valli (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) and his gang our muscling their way into a cut of the local businesses one bombing at a time. The extreme violence of Valli’s attacks which leave… Read more »
Radio On
In 1978 and 1979 a number of different Unions went on strike in Great Britain. The strikes were in opposition of the government’s conservative restrictions on pay raises. As a… Read more »
A Slave Of Love
Nikita Mikhalkov’s film A Slave Of Love (1976) uses cinema history as a launching pad for a Chekhovian drama that critiques the Bolshevik revolution. Set during the summer of 1918,… Read more »
Smile
Michael Ritchie’s film Smile (1975) is one of the great American portraits produced by the New Hollywood. 1975 saw the release of two other great national portraits, Altman’s Nashville and… Read more »
Heat
After the increasing successes of Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and the underrated Women In Revolt (1971) Paul Morrissey’s films for producer Andy Warhol reached their zenith of mainstream acclaim with… Read more »
De Sade 70
De Sade 70 (1970) or Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion is Jesús Franco’s second film adaptation of a work by the Marquis de Sade. For a long… Read more »
Stroszek
Stroszek (1977) is one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films. It’s a darkly comic character study and indictment of American culture. If the American dream is an open road of limitless… Read more »
I Spit On Your Grave
Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is one of the most infamously violent films ever made. Even by the standards of the late seventies genre picture I Spit… Read more »
Black Christmas
Bob Clark’s film Black Christmas (1974) is one of the earliest masterpieces of the slasher genre. It’s a film whose legacy and influence is indisputable. Not only did Black Christmas… Read more »
