The year is 1982. The country is Spain. Carlos Aured is shifting from the horror genre to a new genre exploding in popularity, the rated “S” sex film. Under General Franco, Spain had strict obscenity laws and once he passed away, the law became much less censorious. Aured put together a film provocatively titled “Sex…
Fata/Morgana [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
a.k.a. Left-handed Fate (1965) Starring Teresa Gimpera, Marianne Benet, Marcos Martí To be honest, I’m not sure what I just watched. The cover art, tagline, and back cover suggested a very different movie than what I experienced. It is a Spanish film from the mid-1960s and Mondo Macabro’s release has cover art that make the…
Dr. Caligari – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Even though she just got back from her stay the Caligari Insane Asylum, frustrated housewife Mrs. Van Houten (Laura Albert) is sent back right in when her wimpy dork of a husband can’t abide her unbridled horniness. This delights the malevolent Dr. Caligari (Madeleine Reynal), who uses every opportunity to further her wild experiments in…
The Sinister Dr. Orloff – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Sometimes, fathers and sons don’t get along. Alfred Orloff (Antonio Mayans) is trying to do what his father, Dr. Orloff (Howard Vernon) AKA Big Poppa, never could and that is to resurrect his comatose mother/lover named Melisa. Alfie employs his monstrous manservant Andros to help him snatch party girls and sex workers off the streets,…
Shadow of Death – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Denise (Teresa Gimpera) is in a bad marriage! Well, her boring husband Peter and/or John (Larry Ward) is actually very boring, but for real, she’s kind of a dickweed. She’s having an affair with Peter and/or John’s brother named Peter and/or John (Larry Ward’s twin brother Larry Ward). They have concocted a preposterous scheme to…
The Broken Mirror/Unquiet Death – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Anne (Laure Dechasnel) is an art restorer and a barrel of laughs! She’s pregnant with her first child and her husband Matthew (Max von Sydow) and her mom (Micheline Presle) don’t understand why she’s so miserable. They’re concerned about the health of the baby as well as Anne’s mental health. It’s only been a few…
The Witches Mountain – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
A photographer named Mario (Cihangir Gaffari) goes on assignment to snap some sikk pics of a mountainous region of Spain known for its beauty. He takes along his very casual acquaintance, Delia (Patty Shepard), after creepily photographing her topless on the beach. Why she agrees to go with him is confusing to say the least….
The Fear a.k.a. O Fovos Blu-ray Review
Mondo Macabro delivers another underseen classic with the Greek film The Fear on blu-ray for the first time anywhere. Feel the simmering tensions well up and explode in this provocative psychological thriller! Anna is a city-dwelling student who returns to her family’s farm at a time where her father Dimitrios is struggling, working himself to…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yukino (Naomi Tani) is stuck working in a bathhouse (AKA brothel) because of her utterly worthless and downright evil husband Toriyama (Kôji Fujiyama). Things only get worse when her younger sister Mayumi (Misa Ohara) shows up to live with the couple and even worser than that, Yukino reveals to her dirtbag hubbie that she is…