Cult Movie Reviews: Snapshot (1979)
Snapshot is a 1979 Australian thriller which is a lot more interesting than its reputation would suggest. The surprises here are not the plot twists but the way in which…
Cult Movie Reviews: Sliver (1993)
Sliver is a 1993 erotic thriller directed by Phillip Noyce and scripted by Joe Eszterhas from a novel by Ira Levin. Sharon Stone, at that time just about the hottest…
Cult Movie Reviews: Death by Invitation (1971)
Death by Invitation, released in 1971, starts with a young girl on trial for witchcraft. So do countless horror movies but in this case it’s done in a particularly disturbing…
Cult Movie Reviews: Futureworld (1976)
Westworld had been a major hit in 1973 but the 1976 sequel Futureworld is a less ambitious affair. Rather than being a major studio production Futureworld is an AIP picture…
Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968)
Adrian Hoven’s Castle of the Creeping Flesh (original title Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde) is a German eurohorror movie which falls into the gothic horror in a contemporary setting sub-category,…
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
I’m not quite sure what I expected from The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. I guess I expected an evil child horror movie, and while it is a…
Death Laid an Egg (1968)
Giulio Questi’s Death Laid an Egg (AKA Plucked AKA A Curious Way to Love, original Italian title La morte ha fatto l’uovo) is an attempt to combine the giallo and…
The Long Hair of Death (1964)
The Long Hair of Death is a 1964 Italian gothic horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Barbara Steele. The main story takes place in the year 1499 but…
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Blu-Ray review
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie was released in 1972. It was torn to shreds by Australian film critics (who wanted worthy earnest Australian films) and proceeded to make a fortune…
Cult Movie Reviews: Orgasmo (AKA Paranoia, 1969)
OK, first things first. In 1969 Umberto Lenzi made a movie called Paranoia. The Italian distributors changed the title to Orgasmo, a less appropriate but at the time more commercial…
Cult Movie Reviews: In Hot Blood (1968)
In Hot Blood is a wild and crazy 1968 New York-shot sexploitation roughie. Nobody seems to be entirely sure of the identity of the director. It takes a stock-standard exploitation…
Cult Movie Reviews: Miranda (1985)
Miranda is a 1985 movie by Tinto Brass which you could describe as an erotic comedy/romance. Tinto Brass has certainly had an interesting career. In the 60s and early 70s…
Cult Movie Reviews: Mission Bloody Mary (1965)
Mission Bloody Mary, released in 1965, was the first of a series of three eurospy movies featuring Ken Clark as American secret agent Dick Malloy, Agent 077. It was an…
Cult Movie Reviews: Fräulein Leather (1970)
Fräulein Leather is a 1970 sexploitation feature written and directed by Nick Phillips. Nick Phillips was actually Nick Millard, the son of legendary exploitation movie figure S.S. Millard (known as…
Cult Movie Reviews: The Cats (1968)
Duccio Tessari’s I bastardi (1968) is one of those European movies that gets a bit confusing when it comes to titles. It was released in English-speaking markets variously as The…
Cult Movie Reviews: Queens of Evil (1970)
Queens of Evil is a 1970 Franco-Italian co-production directed by Tonino Cervi. It’s a bit hard to decide to which genre this movie should be assigned. It’s not quite gothic…
Cult Movie Reviews: The Black Cat (1966)
The Black Cat, written and directed by Harold Hoffman, is a very low-budget 1966 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story of the same name. It was made by Hemisphere…
Cult Movie Reviews: The Sex Thief (1973)
The Sex Thief is a 1973 British sex comedy directed by Martin Campbell (who went on to direct a couple of Bond movies including Goldeneye and Casino Royale). Grant Henry…