The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
The House with Laughing Windows is a rather strange 1976 Italian horror film directed by Pupi Avati. A fresco has been discovered in a church in a little Italian village.…
The Turn of the Screw (1974)
The Turn of the Screw is a 1974 TV-movie adaptation of the famous Henry James ghost story. The original novella was published in 1898. The Turn of the Screw was…
Black Boots, Leather Whip (1983)
Black Boots, Leather Whip (Botas negras, látigo de cuero) is one of the many movies Jess Franco made featuring private eye Al Pereira. Al (Antonio Mayans) is about to leave…
Cult Movie Reviews: Star Slammer (1986)
Star Slammer (AKA Prison Ship) is a 1986 Fred Olen Ray movie so you know it’s going to be crazy goofy fun. It’s a women-in-prison movie set on a prison…
Mission for a Killer (1965)
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117) is one of the French eurospy thrillers based on Jean Bruce’s books featuring secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de…
Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle (Eyes Wide Shut)
Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 short novel (more a novella really) Traumnovelle, also known as Dream Story or Rhapsody, was the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick’s movie…
Cult Movie Reviews: Heat of Madness (1966)
Heat of Madness is an odd little 1966 New York sexploitation roughie that may not deliver the sexploitation goods but it is a fascinating exercise in slow-burning creepiness and madness.…
Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)
Mad Doctor of Blood Island is the third of the four Blood Island low-budget horror flicks made in the Philippines. There’s a vague Island of Dr Moreau vibe with a…
Cult Movie Reviews: Love After Death (1968)
Love After Death (also released as Unsatisfied Love) is a 1968 Argentinian erotic horror movie and it’s pretty crazy. Which is a good thing. We start with a man named…
Cult Movie Reviews: Aenigma (1987)
I’ve recently developed a bit of an interest in 1980s eurocult movies, especially 80s Italian genre movies. I’ve long been a fan of 1960s/70s eurocult films but I had rarely…
The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)
The Curse of the Hidden Vault (German title Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss) is a 1964 Edgar Wallace krimi from Rialto. The opening sequence is pleasingly clever and witty. The…
The Island of the Fishmen (1979)
The Island of the Fishmen AKA Island of Mutations (original Italian title L’isola degli uomini pesce) is a 1979 horror film directed by Sergio Martino. It was released in the…
Cult Movie Reviews: So Sweet…So Perverse (1969)
So Sweet…So Perverse (Così dolce… così perversa) was the second of the series of gialli made by Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker. It was released in 1969. Jean Reynaud…
Cult Movie Reviews: Modesty Blaise (1966) revisited
When I first saw Joseph Losey’s 1966 Modesty Blaise movie fifteen years ago I had never read a Modesty Blaise novel and had never set eyes on a Modesty Blaise…
Cult Movie Reviews: Swamp Thing (1982)
Swamp Thing is Wes Craven’s 1982 adaptation of the popular DC comic. I’m at a bit of a disadvantage in reviewing this movie since I have never set eyes on…
The Hound of Blackwood Castle (1968)
The Hound of Blackwood Castle (Der Hund von Blackwood Castle) is one of the later colour krimis made by West Germany’s Rialto Films. It came out in 1968. It was…
A Good Time with a Bad Girl (1967)
A Good Time with a Bad Girl is brought to us on DVD by Something Weird. It opens with the words Barry Mahon Presents superimposed on a jiggling naked female…
Cult Movie Reviews: Cat People (1982) revisited
If you want to properly appreciate Paul Schrader’s 1982 Cat People you have to avoid thinking of it as a remake of the 1942 Cat People. It is not a…