I’m on vacation at the moment and enjoying the holiday, but I wanted to briefly mention that Curtis Harrington’s terrific 1973 thriller The Killing Kind was released this week on DVD for the first time and it’s my DVD pick of the week. Harrington is responsible for some of the most interesting and entertaining American … Continue reading »
Posted in November 2007 …
Meet & Greet
Above: Me and some of my movie posters from – Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee’s Counterattack (Norifumi Suzuki; 1971) Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (Yasuharu Hasebe; 1970). The nice folks at Detour Magazine thought I was worthy of an interview and photo in their fine publication. If you’re interested in learning a little bit more … Continue reading »
Happy 70th Birthday to Ingrid Pitt!
My favorite Hammer bad girl turns 70 today and I want to wish her a very happy birthday! The lovely Ingrid Pitt started acting in horror films in 1964 and she first appeared in the entertaining, but flawed Sound of Horror (aka El Sonido prehistórico) directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde with another horror legend, … Continue reading »
Stephen Weeks’ Ghost Story (1974)
Marianne Faithfull in Ghost Story (1974) Ghost Story (aka Madhouse Mansion) is an interesting low-budget independent horror film made in 1974 by the British director Stephen Weeks. The film tells the story of a small group of privileged young men in the 1930s that gather together for a weekend in the country at a sprawling … Continue reading »
Good News for Soundtrack Enthusiasts
Cinedelic Records has released a terrific series of Book & CD packages this year called Musical and Visual Tributes, which include collections devoted to the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini and another devoted to the films of Mario Monicelli. On November 20th soundtrack enthusiasts can look forward to two new Musical and Visual Tributes from … Continue reading »
The Terrorists Are Coming, the Terrorists Are Coming!
I recently had the opportunity to see Norman Jewison’s extremely silly and sometimes smart 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for the first time in about 20 years when it played on TCM. When I was a kid The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming was one of my favorite … Continue reading »
DVD of the Week: Tattooed Flower Vase
There were some good DVD re-releases this week such as the Special Collector’s Edition of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) and a Deluxe Edition of Richard Lester’s Help! (1965). But my DVD pick of the week is the Kino/KimStim release of the Japanese Roman Porno film Tattooed Flower Vase (aka Kashin no Irezumi: Ureta Tsubo; 1976) … Continue reading »
10 Questions with Tom Lisanti
Book author Tom Lisanti was kind enough to answer some questions for me over at Cinedelica about his new book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood, which I reviewed here over the weekend. The interview is well worth reading if you’re a fan of sixties-era film starlets and Tom talks a lot about his upcoming book … Continue reading »
Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood
Tom Lisanti’s latest book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood has just been released and it’s definitely one of his best. Tom has written numerous books featuring sixties-era film starlets such as Drive-In Dream Girls, Film Fatales and Fantasy Femmes of 60′s Cinema, and his latest effort offers readers a fascinating look at many of Hollywood’s … Continue reading »
