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November 8, 2021
Gerard Damiano's Let My Puppets Come
Fresh off the unbridled success of his masterwork Deep Throat, Gerard Damiano turned his attention to subjects more exotic. It was 1976 the year that […]
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November 8, 2021
A Comparison of I Spit on Your Grave, The Last House On The Left and Ms. 45
I Spit on Your Grave (1978), The Last House On The Left (1972) and Ms. 45 (1981) all fit within the grindhouse genre and further within the subgenera of rape […]
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November 8, 2021
The Female Prisoner Scorpion Series
In the span of just two years, 1972 to 1973, a series of four films were made in Japan by The Toei Company. The first […]
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November 7, 2021
The Hanzo The Razor Trilogy
With my eyes fixed to the screen I could scarcely believe what was happening. I can’t imagine what I must have looked like as I […]
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November 7, 2021
Chi-Lien Yu's Invincible Space Streaker
In 1977 director Chi-Lien Yu fashioned a new edition to the Taiwanese Fantasy genre. Let me, if I may, describe to you the opening few […]
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November 7, 2021
Frank Packard’s Abar The First Black Superman
Superman, Jesus, Moses, they’re all the same. Larger-than-life magicians who solve problems in ways human beings can not. What point is there to watching a […]
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November 6, 2021
Ross McElwee’s Six O’clock News
If people recognize Ross McElwee’s name they are likely to associate it with his much acclaimed documentary Sherman’s March. Its on most lists of the best documentaries […]
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November 6, 2021
War God: The Big Calamity
Taiwanese director Hung Min Chen made, what at first glance looks like a low budget kaiju movie, and it is indeed a low budget Kaiju […]
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November 5, 2021
Jane Mansfield In Dog Eat Dog
No opening credits, no atmospheric music to lead us in, just a sudden blare of wild jazz and the screen goes from black to Jane Mansfield […]
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November 5, 2021
You Will Never Ever See Another Film Like The Boxer’s Omen, Never.
About a month ago I ordered a bluray from what I can only imagine was a pirate. I paid twelve bucks for a disc that contained […]
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November 5, 2021
A Visual Summary of The Beast In Space
We open in a smokey space bar where our leading couple meet. They have awkward soft core sex Time to blast off for an intrepid […]
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November 4, 2021
The Subjective Depiction of The Subjective In Robert Altman’s Film Images
Robert Altman’s 1972 film Images enhances the idea of the subjective camera by compounding it. He creates an unstable space where not only the character’s perceptions are […]
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November 4, 2021
Dr. Caligari, Never Ever to be Confused With The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dr. Caligari presents itself as a sequel to Robert Wien’s silent masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I’m not sure it quite succeeds in its attempt but […]
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November 4, 2021
Todd Haynes’ Horror Movie Safe
I saw Safe in the theater when it first came out in 1995. I remember it well because when the film ended I could hardly move. I […]
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November 3, 2021
Bollywood’s Devotional Film Bhaktha Prahlada
I don’t believe in reincarnation but in my past life I did. Whoever I was, I was definitely Indian. The food, the music, the mythology […]
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