The Drowning Pool (1975)

I was in the mood for some 1970s neo-noir and this fit the bill. Harper was a 1960s private eye flick starring Paul Newman as Lew Harper, a character from a series of Ross Macdonald novels. I saw it awhile back and I remember it intentionally reviving the 1940s Humphrey Bogart PI mould for a […]

The House By The Cemetery (1981)

On the night of Halloween, I intended to finish Lucio Fulci’s ‘Gates of Hell’ trilogy by watching the final film, The House By The Cemetery (1981; Quella villa accanto al cimitero). I have to agree with the consensus out there that it’s the weakest of the trilogy; I still enjoyed watching it however. It’s basically […]

Next Of Kin (1982)

Not to be confused with the Patrick Swayze action flick, Next Of Kin (1982) is an underrated Australian horror thriller, which has been championed as a classic by Quentin Tarantino in his appearance in Not Quite Hollywood, the documentary about “Ozploitation” reappraising Australian of the 1970s and 1980s, and the soundtrack is renown in some […]

Daughters Of Darkness (1971)

Again, another film title I read about long ago in the school library copy of Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2, its lurid photos already sordidly graffitied by school boys. Daughters Of Darkness (1971) is an English language Belgian erotic horror film, another cult title that lines up with the works of Jean Rollin and Jesus […]

Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

I do like the exchange between monthly Criterion Channel programming and people I follow on Letterboxd tending to watch the same stuff, like a slowly crawling communal experience. I’d heard the title Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971) but didn’t really have any idea what it was like, assuming it was a tongue in cheek […]