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Mondo Karloffo
Tiny rocker Franz Drago performs with Les Amants in MONDO BALARDO.MONDO BALORDO (1964, 86m 45s; Severin Films/Something Weird): The title means "Crazy World" - and who am I to argue? The director of...
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Going Ape With Scream Factory, Part I
Philip Terry as Scot, Charles Gemora as his simian alter ego in THE MONSTER AND THE GIRL. Scream Factory's UNIVERSAL HORROR COLLECTION VOLUME 5 focuses on Universal's Paula the Ape Woman series...
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Going Ape With Scream Factory, Part 2
John Carradine unveils Acquanetta in Edward Dmytryk's CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN.In the 1930s, Universal produced a series of ambitious sequels to their horror hits, ranging from DRACULA'S DAUGHTER to 1939's...
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Going Ape With Scream Factory, Part 3
Acquanetta is examined by new mad doctor J. Carrol Naish in JUNGLE WOMAN.The second film in the Paula the Ape Woman series is JUNGLE WOMAN (1944), directed by Reginald LeBorg. LeBorg is best remembered...
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They Came From Beyond Taste
Michael Gough as the Master of the Moon. No, I'm not kidding. THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (1967, 85m 12s; Kino Lorber)In my opinion, the single best critical overview of Freddie Francis' uneven...
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Adventure Ahoy!
Yvonne de Carlo and Philip Friend on the high seas.BUCCANEER'S GIRL (1950, Kino Lorber): Frankly, I wasn't expecting much more than a nice dose of classic Technicolor, but this candy-colored Universal...
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50 Years Ago Today in Cincinnati Theaters
It's fascinating to discover that these two films about transexuality opened on this same day, half a century ago. Also worth sharing is this Cincinnati ENQUIRER interview with the real life subject of...
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New Promise Aborning in DEAD DICKS
Heston Horwin and Jillian Harris study the mysterious Thing on the Wall in DEAD DICKS.DEAD DICKS - the unfortunately titled debut feature of Canadian director team Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer,...
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The New Blogger, etc.
Your humble blogger, and the "new" Big Boy.I can't tell you how much I hate the "New Blogger," which is presently an optional choice for its users but will become standard on August 24. Granted, it...
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50 Years Ago Tonight: Now Playing in Cincinnati Theaters
Another heartwarming reminder of the great diversity and creativity available to motion pictures half a century ago...
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50 Years Ago addendum
There were no display ads for it in the local paper, but I now see that Joy M. Houck Jr.’s NIGHT OF BLOODY HORROR opened at one of Cincinnati's local drive-ins 50 years ago last night, co-billed with...
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Revisiting Neutron, the Atomic Superman
I recently indulged a whim to revisit the series of Mexican films about Neutrón, El Esmascarado Negro ("Neutron, the Black Mask") - known as "Neutron, the Atomic Superman" in English - which I hadn't...
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50 Years Ago Today: Opening In Cincinnati Theaters
Andy Milligan had already been cranking out the next worst thing to home movies since the early 1960s but this was probably the biggest national launch his work ever had: the double feature...
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Severin's AENIGMA Reviewed
AENIGMA (1987, Severin Films, 89m 17s) If you've ever seen THE EDITOR (2014), the ironic horror comedy co-directed by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, Lucio Fulci's AENIGMA is exactly the kind of...
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More Fulci: DEMONIA and Documentary
DEMONIA (1990, Severin Films Blu-ray and DVD) FULCI FOR FAKE (2019, Severin Films Blu-ray and DVD)In addition to AENIGMA, Severin Films is also releasing two other...
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Darker and Why: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1972, Scream Factory, Blu-ray)My book habit being what it is, I have to be fairly conservative about what I acquire - and more particularly, reacquire - on...
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More Notes on GUNSMOKE: From Season 5
I've seen some other memorable GUNSMOKE episodes lately from Season 5, none better than "Odd Man Out" (d. Andrew V. McLaglen), a truly Poe-like story about a strange little man (well cast with Elisha...
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For Her Book Only
Circa 1967, Sean Connery's then-wife, actress Diane Cilento, published her first novel, THE MANIPULATOR. I remember seeing her on a talk show at that time, and that the interviewer mentioned that the...
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Jess Franco's SHINING SEX reviewed
SHINING SEX (1975, Severin Films): Behind this brazen exploitation title is one of Jess Franco's few forays into science fiction and a study in what we would now term "body horror" surprisingly...
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CASTLE OF THE CREEPING FLESH reviewed
IM SCHLOSS DER BLUTIGEN BEGIERDE ("In the Castle of Bloody Lust" 1969, Subkulture German import):Directed by German actor Adrian Hoven under the alias "Percy G. Parker," this Aquila Film production...
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Severin's ORGASMO/PARANOIA reviewed
In both audio commentaries found on Severin Films'ORGASMO (aka PARANOIA, 1969; included in their COMPLETE LENZI/BAKER GIALLO COLLECTION box set), director Umberto Lenzi is mentioned as having a "hack"...
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LENZI/BAKER: SO SWEET, SO PERVERSE reviewed
Though Umberto Lenzi's second Carroll Baker giallo, SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE, finds the director working once again with cameraman Guglielmo Mancori, editor Eugenio Alabiso, and composer Riz Ortolani,...
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