New Year’s Evil
On New Year’s Eve, in a Holiday Inn high rise, Blaze (Roz Kelly) is hosting a televised punk and new wave show. During the telethon portion of her holiday special… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Don’t Open Till Christmas
Produced by the infamous Dick Randall and primarily directed by star Edmund Purdom, Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984) is a particularly grimy, sleazy and gory entry in the sub genre… Read more »
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers (1984) is a gritty and erotic character study of a mafia hitman torn between the promise of redemption and the corrupt moral code of organized crime from low… Read more »
Supergirl
In the years since its first release, Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin (1997) has gradually undergone a major re-evaluation. Much maligned in its day, Batman & Robin has become a… Read more »
Ishtar
By now the reputation of Ishtar (1987) is more widely known than the film is seen. The narrative of that reputation has changed over the intervening decades from one of… Read more »
24 Hours To Midnight
Filmmaker Leo Fong had been acting in low-budget action films for roughly a decade before branching out into writing and directing. An accomplished martial artist, Fong’s films are characterized by… Read more »
Blood Rage
“It’s not cranberry sauce Artie” In 1974, Terry murdered a man with an axe at a drive-in theater while his brother Todd looked on in horror. Terry, wiping blood all… Read more »
Maurice
The novel Maurice was written in 1914 by E.M. Forster but remained unpublished until a year after his death in 1970. Forster had determined that his novel could never be… Read more »
Vice Squad
The films of writer and director Gary Sherman are a unique synthesis of glossy, big budget techniques with a low-brow, quasi grindhouse style and interests. Though best known for his… Read more »
The Company Of Wolves
Angela Carter’s collection of short fiction stories The Bloody Chamber set out to re-tell a number of folktales and fairytales with their latent feminism reoriented to be central to Carter’s… Read more »
