Jul 31, 2018
Jul 27, 2018
In the Sign of the Lion (1976)
In the seventies, Denmark released a series of comedy films, each relating to an astrological sign. We've reviewed a couple so far: In the Sign of the Gemini (1975) and In the Sign of Scorpio (1977). What's unique about these films is that they are well directed, well acted, and fairly big budget (all things considered)... and yet they could be downright hardcore at times. This is what film-making looks like when any remnant of sexual taboo and puritanism is removed from society. Just picture a Mel Brooks spy spoof - but with graphic nudity throughout. We'd be outraged and need our smelling salts to revive us from the indecency of seeing this on the big screen today - but, evidently, in 1970s Denmark, it was all good.
Jul 21, 2018
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 7, 2018
Dance with Death (1992)
There were so many films like this in the nineties (and latter half of the eighties). There's a string of strippers murdered, so a cop or reporter must go undercover as a stripper to catch the killer. It was a genre unto itself. Along the way, there's tons of red herrings and overlong striptease performances which pad the film from beginning to end.
I suppose it was a cheap way to make an erotic thriller: half the film is just shooting stripteases and the script is a ready-made cookie-cutter template. Perhaps the biggest success was Stripped to Kill (which spawned sequels), but the legion of lesser known flicks within this odd genre are endless. Let's have a look at one I'd never heard of - Dance With Death.
Jul 6, 2018
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