Sisworo Gautama Putra directed Jaka Sembung, which I positively reviewed, and continued to make insane Indonesian movies. “The Hungry Snake Woman” is no exception. The movie opens just tossing the audience into the action. A gang of almost naked women is chased by a man with a black powder rifle. The women lure him into…
Tokugawa Sex Ban [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1972 in Japan. A movie comes out that is hard to classify: historical epic, sexploitation film, political satire. The basic plot is a high-born lady marries a country lord. Both are inexperienced in sexual matters and the consummation does not go well. In an effort to “train” the lord, his advisors hire…
Supervixens [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Clint (Charles Pitts) is a hapless gas station attendant who is forced to go on the lam after being framed for the (shockingly brutal) murder of his cuckolding wife (Shari Eubank) by the sadistic corrupt cop Harry Sledge (Charles Napier). While on the road, Clint tumbles into a variety of sexy shenanigans, swinging with a…
Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens [Severin] Blu-ray review
Russ Meyer is an interesting character. Nicknamed the Walt Disney of the skin flick, he made strange, but fun, soft-core films. “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens” (BTVOTUV) is no exception. The 93-minute film features a lot of strange characters in “Small Town, U.S.A”. Opening with the narrator, a kindly old man with a…
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock [Cohen Media] Blu-Ray Review
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most celebrated and studied directors in film history. Taking the breath of the often cited in-depth interview with Francois Truffaut in which Hitchcock participated in 1966 and merging it with the laser-like focus of the scene-specific analysis of the documentary 78/52 (which, released the same year as this film,…
Vixen [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Vixen Palmer (Erica Gavin) is insatiable. She is married to pilot Tom (Garth Pillsbury), but his job inevitably takes him away from home for long stretches, leaving poor ol’ Vixen sexually frustrated and looking to get with anyone within thrusting distance. This leads her on a series of sexual misadventures that involves mounting a mountie,…
Yokohama BJ Blues [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
BJ (Yusaku Matsuda) is a beaten down private detective who lurks in nightclubs singing the blues on the side. Although if you asked him, he’d probably tell you he’s a blues singer who happens to do a little P.I. work as a side hustle. Regardless, BJ finds himself embroiled in a killer case involving the…
Bart La Rue’s Satan War [AGFA] Blu-ray Review
Bart La Rue was a character actor that was in an astounding number of television shows in the 60s and 70s (Mission Impossible, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, Bonanza) who had a deep, resonant voice made for broadcasting or the stage. Something he always wanted to do was direct. In his short directing career, he…
Gabriel Over the White House Blu-ray review
Due to the political season we recently had, Warner Archive went deep into their vaults to release on Blu-ray the 1933 pre-code political drama entitled Gabriel Over the White House. Screen icon Walter Huston (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Beast of the City, The Furies) is Judson Hammond, The President of the United States….
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II [Scream Factory] Blu-ray Review
This follow-up to the first Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey finds Cristopher Robin (Scott Chambers) ostracized from everyone in his hometown of Ashdown after they all believe he was responsible for the “Hundred Acre Massacre” in the Hundred Acre Woods depicted in the first film. No one, including his close friends, believes Christopher Robin’s story of…