114. CEMETERY MAN [DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE] (1994)
“Michele Soari gave me the script. At first I didn’t understand anything, because it was really strange. It’s a horror movie, it’s a sex movie, it was really strange…”–Anna Falchi DIRECTED BY: Michele...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE (1973)
AKA Caged Virgins DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent PLOT: Two lesbian killers dressed as clowns flee the law and wind up in the hands of a vampire who needs...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE (1968)
Le viol du vampire DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Bernard Letrou, Solange Pradel, Jacqueline Sieger PLOT: In Part I a psychoanalyst tries to cure four sisters of their belief that they are...
View ArticleCAPSULE: THE DEMONIACS (1974)
Les démoniaques; AKA Curse of the Living Dead DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: John Rico, Joëlle Coeur, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier PLOT: A crew of “wreckers” rape and apparently kill two female...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: DJANGO KILL… IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT! (1967)
Se Sei Vivo Spara DIRECTED BY: Giulio Questi FEATURING: Tomas Milian PLOT: A bandit is betrayed and left for dead by his comrades, then rides into a strange and corrupt town looking for vengeance and...
View ArticleCAPSULE: SPRING BREAKERS (2012)
DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine FEATURING: Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, James Franco, Rachel Korine, Selena Gomez PLOT: Four college girls head to Fort Lauderdale for a week of binge drinking, drugs and...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: THE TELEPHONE BOOK (1971)
AKA Hot Number DIRECTED BY: Nelson Lyon FEATURING: Sarah Kennedy, Norman Rose PLOT: An oversexed girl encounters stag film producers, perverts and lesbian seductresses as she searches Manhattan for the...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD (1973)
La nuit des étoiles filantes; Christina, Princess of Eroticism [alternate director's cut] DIRECTED BY: Jess Franco, Jean Rollin (additional footage) FEATURING: Christina von Blanc, Howard Vernon,...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: GOODBYE UNCLE TOM (1971)
Addio Zio Tom DIRECTED BY: Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi FEATURING: Uncredited actors, mostly Haitian PLOT: A pair of modern day Italian filmmakers visit the antebellum American south to make...
View ArticleCAPSULE: BLUE MOVIE (1978)
“I was really surprised at the success of Blue Movie. It was a film that should have startled all sexy film lovers because it was an anti-establishment film.” -Director Alberto Cavallone (commentary...
View Article188. EDEN AND AFTER (1970)
L’éden et après “The curtain falls and the audience applauds a bit, a smattering of polite applause. Then the host of the festival appears, the curtain opens, and he introduces Catherine Jourdan....
View Article194. THE COOK THE THIEF HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (1989)
“Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, it’s whatever you want it to be — because I think that’s their intention, to connect with each person’s subconscious, and not...
View Article213. DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS (1977)
“People have asked me if I realized how odd or strange the story was. Then and now, I never thought of it [that way]—as a slightly offbeat story, perhaps—but I’ve always thought of it as a normal...
View ArticleCAPSULE: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE (1981)
Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes; Doctor Jekyll and His Women; The Bloodbath of Doctor Jekyll DIRECTED BY: Walerian Borowczyk FEATURING: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg PLOT: Dr....
View ArticleCAPSULE: IN THE BASEMENT (2014)
Im Keller DIRECTED BY: Ulrich Seidl FEATURING: A cast of “ordinary” Austrians PLOT: A documentary about secret hobbies in which Austrians indulge their basements, including a man with a shrine to the...
View ArticleLIST CANDIDATE: THE NEON DEMON (2016)
DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Winding Refn FEATURING: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Keanu Reeves PLOT: A 16-year old girl travels to Los Angeles to become a model; her rare beauty...
View ArticleCAPSULE: SALO, THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975)
DIRECTED BY: Pier Paolo Pasolini FEATURING: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti PLOT: Four Italian fascists kidnap dozens of young boys and girls and imprison them...
View Article248. DJANGO KILL! (IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!) (1967)
Se sei Vivo Spara; AKA Oro Hondo “That [If You Live, Shoot!] should be part of the small group of films that become a part of film history, embedded in the viewer’s imagination, obviously pleases me...
View Article252. POSSESSION (1981)
AKA The Night the Screaming Stops “…Viktor Shklovsky wrote about how the job of the artist was to come up with a device that made the familiar seem strange. The ‘strangeness’ sets our brain a...
View Article264. THE TELEPHONE BOOK (1971)
AKA Hot Number “I said, anybody who makes dirty phone calls as a life’s project is a pretty weird person. So where am I going to get the kind of material that he would be speaking? He wouldn’t be...
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