Plot: woman accused of (and killed for) witchcraft haunts her wrongdoers. Ratu Ilmu Hitam (or The Queen Of Black Magic) was another domestic box office smash for Suzzanna, and the first to gain international traction in some capacity. Perhaps it was inevitable something as universally acclaimed and beloved as Ghost
Plot: disgraced scientists feverishly attempts to cure family malady. La Loba (or The She-Wolf, and Los Horrores del Bosque Negro, or The Horrors Of the Black Forest, in some markets, para aquellos que no hablan español) is a little monochrome horror film that’s more significant than it probably
Plot: The Agency master computer is compromised. LETHAL Ladies are on the case. When is trop too much? How about now? The eleventh installment of the LETHAL Ladies franchise Day Of the Warrior, the first of two with the franchise name as a prefix and potential red herring, is a
Plot: who or what lurks within the darker bowels of the English countryside? While its roots lie in Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses (1960) and Emilio Vieyra’s Blood Of the Virgins (1967) the European vampire film took a marked turn for the erotic (not to mention, the lesbian
Our on-and-off love affair with Piedmont, Italy-based necromancers of the ancient arts and dark metal pioneers Opera IX has been intense, passionate - if not somewhat turbulent. “Veneficium” arrives after a protracted, eight year absence while it slowly gestated in the mind of its creators. Amassing a respectable
Plot: sword-wielding geisha vows to avenge the death of her father. 芸者VS忍者 (or Geisha VS Ninjas, released in the English-speaking world as simply Geisha Assassin) is a low budget chanbara (チャンバラ) and jidaigeki (時代劇) (or a swordfighting and period drama, respectively) that largely exists as a showcase for
Plot: four au pair girls come to London to work. Hilarity ensues! There’s no question about the importance of Great Britain in the history of exploitation. From the domination of the horror houses of Hammer and Tigon, to the Bulldog Drummond spy-romps following the success of James Bond,
Plot: sisters inherit a hotel and the terrible curse that it harbors. Panggonan Wingit (or Yesterday’s Place, released on Netflix internationally as the far more descriptive The Haunted Hotel) is another in a long line of Indonesian reproductions of a foreign property. While Indonesia has a proud and long
A lot of blood has been shed on these pages about the travails and musical output of Oslo, Norway-based extreme metal titans Dimmu Borgir. Most of that criticism richly deserved, some of it much less so. This scribe has been intentionally adversarial and openly hostile whether their perceived slights
Plot: art student is possessed by a malefic spirit from an olive tree sculpture. In the early-to-mid seventies a couple of interesting cycles emerged within the Italian exploitation industry. The peplum - and gothic horror revival were in full swing, there was an explosion of both hyper-stylized giallo
Plot: lovelorn man kidnaps adolescent girl for the sake of company. Now with the Hantavirus ascendant and the possibility of the next pandemic outbreak looming ominously on the horizon and the inevitability of another global lockdown etching ever closer it’s perhaps the ideal time to talk about Menina Casilda.
Plot: adventurers search for diamonds in Africa and find white girl instead. The release of West German jungle adventure Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956) and its sequel Liane, White Slave (1957) was somewhat controversial. The film’s underage star Marion Michael appeared topless and both movies coincided with the series conclusion