Ray Harryhausen’s Centaur
I was about seven years old. I think I was at my grandparents’ house and had been put down in front of the television. From memory, it was a little past my bedtime. There was a movie on – The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974). It was amazing. I hadn’t seen anything like it before....
Sergio Garrone shares his thoughts on reality TV
I recently picked up SS Hell Pack, a DVD triple feature from Media Blasters/Exploitation Digital. While I prefer the films in the followup collection, SS Hell Pack II, this first collection is still a lot of fun. It’s highlight being the wonderfully loopy SS Girls (1977) by Bruno Mattei, Trash God Extraordinaire, which ranks among...
BMX Bandits (1983)
Is there a radder film than Australia’s very own BMX Bandits? Of course there bloody isn’t. How rad is it? Well it contains all the raddest things ever: BMXs, walkie-talkies, Nicole Kidman’s twisted mane and, uh, foam.
Seytan – Turkish poster
This Turkish poster for Seytan (The Exorcist) is one of the most visually exhausting things I’ve ever seen, which, in it’s own way, makes it beautiful. Movie: Seytan Director: Metin Erksan Country of movie: Turkey Year of movie: 1974 Country of poster: Turkey
Stolen Nazi testicles
Naziploitation really does blow my mind. How was such an obnoxious and offensive sub-genre allowed to exist and thrive? Lucky it was, I love these historically inaccurate nasties that usually, unsurprisingly, hail from Italy. No matter how cheap they are, they always pack a seedy slap. The Naziploitation sub-genre also gets pretty darn ludicrous, especially...
Trepanator (1992)
With little to no anticipation or expectations, I press play and Trepanator begins. The opening titles shakily appear on the screen. Underneath “starring” I see “Jean Rollin”. I scoff. What a cheap way to sucker someone into buying your film – you know, by pretending that Jean Rollin is in it. Then another name catches...
Happy End (1967)
A severed head opens his eye before being carried to the guillotine that severed it… and thus ends, Oldrich Lipský’s audacious Happy End (aka Onnellinen Loppu), a film like no other, even within the purview of the Czech New Wave. You see, Happy End is a film that takes place completely in reverse, and by that I mean all the...
Los hombres piensan sólo en eso (1976)
Alberto Olmedo y Jorge Porcel. If you’ve been here before, you’ve probably read about them before. It’s hard to believe that I’m tempted to go back to them periodically despite the fact that many of their movies seem like different versions of the same ludicrous plot. However, this Argentinian duo are at the Mount Olympus...
