La mujer de mi padre (1968)
A few weeks ago I looked at Armando Bó’s Una viuda descocada, a latsploitation classic from 1980 that features the director’s lifelong lover and muse, Argentinian actress and model Isabel Sarli. The back story on Bó and Sarli was almost as interesting as the breast-centric flesh extravaganza that was the film. In fact, it was...
Music videos with bits from movies in them
If there is one thing that really gets my nostalgia gland pumping Camembert throughout my girlish frame, it is a music video featuring clips from teen/cheese movies of a bygone era. That bygone era, of course being the era of my childhood: the 80s and to a lesser extent the early 90s. After the early...
Out of the Body (1989)
Brian Trenchard-Smith is, without a doubt, Australia’s finest purveyor of genre flicks. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Trenchard-Smith delivered us such classics as The Man from Hong Kong (1975), Turkey Shoot (1982), BMX Bandits (1983) and, the film this regular article is named after, Dead-End Drive In (1986). As the 90s rolled by, Trenchard-Smith started...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Hungarian poster
Hungarian posters are up there with Czech and Polish posters. They’re usually as brilliant as they are odd. This poster for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is certainly odd, but I’m undecided whether “brilliant” is the corrector descriptor. Still, I would proudly hang this on my wall. Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Director: Steven Spielberg Country of...
Bollywood Jaws madness
I haven’t had time to upload a clip today, so I’m going to have to steal one from the internet. Here is the amazing finale of Bollywood’s version of Jaws, Aatank (1996), courtesy of Hivefunnies – a YouTuber who posts some truly fantastic stuff. Review of the full movie soon!
Shark! (1969)
I first heard about Samuel Fuller’s Shark! watching Troma’s Terror Firmer (1999) as a young and impressionable teen. Terror Firmer – a film I absolutely worshiped at the time – promoted Shark! as if it were a long lost classic, a shark film to rival Jaws. In reality, Shark! is not really comparable with Jaws...
Kitchen Sink (1989)
A quick post from me this week while I try to catch up on the unreasonable amount of work I have to do, but it’s a good one! Alison Maclean’s fantastic short film from 1989, ‘Kitchen Sink’ is a genuinely creepy masterpiece of low budget horror. Here’s the synopsis from NZonScreen: Director Alison Maclean’s surreal...
Custodio de señoras (1979)
Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel were a famous comedic duo from Argentina that were known for the exploitation/adventure comedies. Although we have already visited them in this space, Porcel was also incredibly successful on his own as a latsploitation actor and made as many films by himself as he did with his usual partner in...
Posters by Ken Taylor for The Warriors
Everyone knows The Warriors (1979) is an awesome movie and is one of the best, if not THE best all time teen action films. And, of course, I mean the theatrical cut and not the shitty directors cut, that the director, Walter Hill, raped in true George Lucas style by adding in a bunch of...
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (2003)
Last week, I interviewed Nadav Rechov, president of Pink Eiga Inc.; as far as I know, the only US DVD company releasing pinku eiga. I’ve already sunk my teeth into a handful of their releases (the first ones I went for were entries from the ridiculous Groper Train series!), and I’m already very impressed. Their...
Martin – Thai poster
As much as I love Dawn of the Dead, Martin (1976) may be my favourite film by George A. Romero. Thankfully, Thailand saw fit to give Martin their always impressive treatment, leaving us with this gleefully bloated and terrific poster! Movie: Martin Director: George A. Romero Country of movie: Japan Year of movie: 1976 Country...
Exploding boomerang
Andy Sidaris loved to use silly weapons in his films. Picasso Trigger (1988) features one of his finest inventions… the exploding boomerang.
