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Bloody Moon (1981)
Must a film be coherent? Eurohorror has so much to teach us. The American slasher genre filtered through Spanish director Jess Franco in gun-for-hire mode. Accentuated by watching the English dub where the voiceover artists are rushing through dialogue at a speedy clip, another layer to what is already alien onscreen behaviour. A group of… Read.
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Venus In Furs (1969)
The meeting point between exploitation demands and arthouse pretensions is ideal cinematic terrain to my mind. Base pleasures that Venus In Furs (1969) – directed by Jess Franco – offers is nudity and sex (well, what accounts for it late 1960s international cinema) with Maria Rohm nude in a fur coat with stockings and a… Read.
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Trash Classics: Program 9
How trashy can you get? Find out with Program 9 of Trash Classics, last Friday of each month at Luna Leederville! Top Secret! (1984) How silly can you get? Val Kilmer gets extremely silly in his first film, Top Secret! (1984). From the creators of Flying High and The Naked Gun, experience this hilarious, surreal… Read.
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Kamikaze Hearts (1986)
One of the first scenes in Kamikaze Hearts (1986) I couldn’t get enough of. Sharon Mitchell sitting in the back of an open top convertible, driving through San Francisco, as she plays to the camera in her leather jacket and sunglasses. If you didn’t know Sharon Mitchell as an adult film star, in this moment,… Read.
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Funny Pages (2022)
Growing up in 1980s and 1990s pop culture, one myth was the idea that if you were a geek or a nerd, or if you had niche interests about arts, movies, comic-books, that made you more special and creative than the mainstream. I can’t point to any one text, but just the idea that if… Read.
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