Jun 23, 2018
The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971)
A slasher is on the loose at the Florence Nightingale nursing school. From Eric Jeffrey Haims, the director of the much worse, but no less bizarre A Clockwork Blue.
Jun 22, 2018
Laura's Toys (1975)
A while back, we looked at the Joe Sarno film, Confessions of an American Housewife (1974) also starring Mary Mendum - and found it to be better than expected. The Sarno pictures I've seen always have the feel of an adult soap opera - well acted, well photographed, and featuring that same brand of romantic drama, but with nudity. Let's have a look at a Sarno/Mendum picture from the following year.
Satan's Slave (1976)
Movies about devil cults were all over the place in the seventies. Attribute it to the successes of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, or just the growing interest in the occult back then; but for whatever reason, Satansploitation was big. Satan's Slave is one of the more notable ones in that it features quality actors and was widely commented upon by critics worldwide. The verdict was very polarizing, with critics either loving or hating it. Let's have a look at this landmark satanic flick and see which side VZ1 falls on...
Jun 19, 2018
Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
This controversial film was shot under the title Sardu: Master of the Screaming Virgins, then it was retitled The Incredible Torture Show for theatrical release. For video, Troma renamed it Bloodsucking Freaks.
I rented this around 1985-86 and was wholly unprepared for what I saw: a dark, grimy, nihilistic, film about torturing women. I'm not sure that I ever felt so deflated and depressed after watching a movie.... I had to watch Nigh Court or something to wash away the awful taste this movie left behind.
Thirty years later, I think it's time to pay this film another visit and see if it has anywhere near the same dank impact...
Jun 18, 2018
The Man with the Severed Head (1973)
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Jun 17, 2018
Sex Play (1984)
Sex Play is a prime example of an adult film that they just don't make anymore. There's a decent budget, a genuinely funny script, good direction - it just happens to have graphic sex here and there. We can't comprehend a time when these films were actually films - not just pornos. It would be just a few years and the internet would change the industry completely. A well made adult film, with a plot, script, film crew, etc. would quickly become a thing of the past.
But I digress. Let's have a look at an adult film comedy about a legendary porn star who has an embarrassing secret....
Jun 16, 2018
Little Sisters (1972)
This is a rated X movie by Alex de Renzy, who did close to two hundred adult flicks from the seventies through the nineties. He may hold the record for the most films with the word "anal" in the title.
Thankfully, this isn't one of his later pornos. This is from the seventies, when adult films were meant for theatrical release, and often had a real production crew, script, actors, etc. In other words, a real movie - but with graphic sex. This film starts as a gentle pastoral story and quickly devolves into a warped fever-dream that I won't soon forget. Let's have a look...
There's No Sex Like Snow Sex (1974)
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I Spit On Your Corpse (1974)
I Spit On Your Corpse - AKA Girls For Rent, a film by Al Adamson. Car chases, gun play, boobs, and explosions abound in this grindhouse flick featuring Georgina Spelvin from The Devil in Miss Jones, Rosalind Miles from numerous blaxsploitation flicks, and one of Dean Martin's Golddiggers. Let's take a look...
Jun 12, 2018
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Jun 2, 2018
Lady Stay Dead (1981)
The Australian horror film Lady Stay Dead has a special place in my heart. I rented it way back in 1986 with low expectations, but ended up loving it. It stuck with me for years after. When viewed through a lens from 2018, maybe it's not so hot. But on that night in '86, watching it on my VCR, it definitely delivered the goods.
Jun 1, 2018
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