Category: Mystery
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Nothing Underneath (1985) is a 1980s-era late-period giallo thriller that fully knocks off the Brian De Palma style. Even composer Pino Donaggio reuses a variation of the ‘Telescope’ theme from Body Double a few times. An American model, Jessica Crane (Nicola Perring), in Milan is in danger (also she has the same blonde punkish cut… Read.
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Fatal Pulse (2018)
FINAL STAGE – GLASS BRICK PORTALFEBRUARY 1991Fatal Pulse (2018) announces itself as operating within the Yuppie Fear thriller mode, using clips and trailers of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Pacific Heights, Deceived, etc. The actual experience of Fatal Pulse itself is comparable to Tim and Eric, Inland Empire, and Southland Tales. An evisceration of a cultural era – the early 1990s in… Read.
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Chess Of The Wind (1976)
The Iranian film, Chess Of The Wind (1976) is initially reminiscent of a Anton Chekov short story, as it observes the fall-out from a matriarch’s death and the remaining family members in the one house, circling around the prospect of her inheritance. The daughter Lady Aghdas (Fakhri Khorvash) is in a wooden wheelchair, looks pale… Read.
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Yokohama BJ Blues (1982)
Only after I finished watching Yokohama BJ Blues (1982) did I realise that the lead actor, Yusaku Matsuda, played the role of Sato the villain in the Michael Douglas action flick, Black Rain. I knew Matsuda was a Japanese movie star and was known for action films himself in the 1970s, and yet I just didn’t connect him… Read.
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Alison’s Birthday (1981)
Alison’s Birthday (1981) lets you know it’s an Australian horror story through the shot of a Cold Chisel album on the floor when a seance goes haywire. At age 16, Alison (Joanne Samuel from Mad Max) is mucking around with a ouija board with a couple of school friends, and receives a warning from the… Read.
