The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971)

When it comes to the genre of folk-horror, there are three titles often referred to as key canonical texts: Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man (original) and The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971). The latter was also used as the main promotional imagery for the recent documentary about folk horror, Woodlands Dark And Bewitched directed by […]

Psychomania (1973)

The opening credits to Psychomania (1973) aka The Death Wheelers are such a vibe. Helmeted bikers riding around a Stonehenge-type clearing in the mist while droney psychedelic rock plays. This reaches a level of eerie that the remainder of the movie doesn’t quite reach. Still, that’s not a knock, this is an entertaining 1970s British […]

Massacre At Central High (1976)

Reading about Massacre At Central High (1976) in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 when I was in high school, leafing through the copy in the school library, really disturbed me. The details of its plot and its accompanying photos made me think of it as a low budget sicko movie about teens killing each other […]

Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

That craggy, beaten face is first seen hiding behind a big pair of dark shades, a wide smile accentuated by a moustache, playing piano in a dive bar, looking to make visitors smile and sing along in order to fill that bowl with cash tips. While apparently Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) […]

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

I love neo-noir as a genre, so there’s only a few I haven’t seen in the recent Criterion Channel ‘Neo-Noir’ collection. So that’s why I watched Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which is a more traditional take on the film noir style with Robert Mitchum playing Raymond Chandler’s character of private detective Phillip Marlowe. I think […]