Cry Of A Prostitute
When the police discover that the mafia is using children’s corpses to smuggle narcotics over the French border the mob closes ranks to deal with the matter internally. Tony Aniante… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Invasion Of The Bee Girls
I know that at one point or another we all wonder what the first film that Nicholas Meyer ever wrote was. The answer is the sexploitation science fiction classic Invasion… Read more »
The Cassandra Crossing
It was about twenty years ago that our local Hollywood Video went out of business. When they had their liquidation sale my father bought their copy of The Cassandra Crossing… Read more »
Embryo
If one goes into Embryo (1976) hoping to find a similar cinematic experience to The Unborn (1991), one will be sorely disappointed. The now public domain Embryo is a strange… Read more »
Léonor
Léonor (1975) unites some of the biggest names in mid-twentieth century European cinema. Michel Piccoli plays Lord Richard, Liv Ullmann plays his late wife Léonor, Ornella Muti plays Richard’s second… Read more »
Twins Of Evil
John Hough, the director of The Incubus (1982) and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), helmed this latter day Hammer classic Twins Of Evil (1971). Twins Of Evil is one of… Read more »
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
Peter Handke’s short novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, published in 1970, is a neo-existentialist novel that serves as a meditation on lost identities. Sartre’s conception of the “signifier”… Read more »
Satánico pandemonium
Despite being sold as a provocative entry in the infamous nunsploitation canon Satánico pandemonium (1975) really defies the genre in a number of ways. Mostly this is done by a… Read more »
Don’t Torture A Duckling
Don’t Torture A Duckling (1972) is that rare film where director Lucio Fulci manages to equally balance his conflicting aesthetic obsessions. This is probably why Don’t Torture A Duckling is… Read more »
The Devil’s Nightmare
The Devil’s Nightmare (1971) is an underrated French modern Gothic horror film. The interjection of exploitation tropes, such as the soft-core sex scenes between women, into the film throws the… Read more »
