Strangler Vs. Strangler I had no idea what to expect when I popped STRANGLER VS STRANGLER into my blu ray player, but what I got was a bizarre slice of filmmaking from a region I have never experienced before. STRANGLER VS STRANGLER is a Serbian serial killer/dark comedy/quasi documentary about a man with the gnarliest…
Blu-ray Review – Hotel Fear – Mondo Macabro
In 1974 director Francesco Barilli grabbed actress Mimsy Farmer, and created the delirious giallo masterpiece the “Perfume of the Lady in Black”, 3 years later he would return the giallo genre with an oft-neglected film that would combine elements of gothic horror and sleaze into the giallo formula to create something truly bizarre, delirious, and…
Blu-ray Review – Sukkubus – Mondo Macabro
Three herdsmen, two grown men and a teenage boy, are up in the mountains tending to their cows and making cheese. Despite all of their superstitious and religious beliefs protecting them and guiding their day-to-day lives, these stupid ass morons conjure up a freakin’ succubus (played by Pamela Prati). She swoops in and causes all…
Blu-ray Review – School of Death – Mondo Macabro
Besties, Leonore (Sandra Mozarowsky) and Sylvia (Victoria Vera), dream of getting out of their finishing school/orphanage someday. Their lives are pretty miserable thanks to the domineering headmistress, Miss Wilkins (Norma Kastel), who doles out cruel (and kinda kinky) punishments for the smallest infractions. Their best chance of happiness is becoming maids for rich people. What…
School of Death Blu-ray review
School of Death aka El colegio de la Muerte is a Spanish horror thriller about a mad doctor lobotomizes women for sleazy purposes. The film was an obscurity for quite some time and after watching it, it should have stayed in the land of obscure films. Taking place in London in 1899, an orphanage sends…
Blu-ray Review – Hiruko the Goblin – Mondo Macabro
When I was younger Tetsuo : The Iron Man, the debut film by Shinya Tsukamoto was one of those films you HAD to see if you digging into obscure cult cinema. Once I saw it, I wanted more, and I kept digging into Tsukamoto’s cinema with films like Tokyo Fist, Bullet Ballet, and of course…
Blu-ray Review – The Laughing Woman – Mondo Macabro
The Laughing Woman aka The Frightened Woman is a 1969 film from director Piero Schivazappa. It combines elements of the pop-art style that was popular at the time with the revenge thriller, comedy, and bondage elements to create a unique cinematic cocktail. The film opens with a prostitute being left on the side of the…
Silip Daughter of Eve Blu-ray review
Silip Daughters of Eve is a Filipino erotic story from 1985 which takes aim at two sisters who take different paths with their sexuality Maria Isabel Lopez, a former Miss Philippines stars as Tonya who has chosen religion and celibacy to fight off her sexuality. She teaches catechism to the local children at a village….
Blu-ray Review – The Frenchman’s Garden – Mondo Macabro
I am sitting here having just watched the Paul Naschy directed/starring the Frenchman’s Garden. A film I could only have sat through on a bad bootleg just a few years ago. 10 years ago even I could only get a handful of Naschy’s more popular horror works on DVD, and now I could pull so…
Blu-ray Review – It’s Nothing Mama, Just A Game – Mondo Macabro
The influence of the Most Dangerous Games seem to have not strayed for from the world of EuroCult cinema in the 70’s. In the past Mondo Macabro themselves have released at least 2 films that I can think that have channeled the themes of the story, with last year’s release of Seven Women for Satan,…