When I said earlier that I enjoyed nunsploitation, I meant it, and School of the Holy Beast delivers. A woman infiltrates a nunnery to find out about the parents that supposedly abandoned or orphaned her. In the process, she discovers sadism, corruption, thievery, homosexuality, and torture are pretty much what nuns do all day every day in Japan. To top it … Continue reading School of the Holy Beast (1974)
That's pretty funny, the movie poster giving away one of the big secrets of the film like that. Sisters is a Brian De Palma film from early in his career. It cribs heavily from Hitchcock, especially films like Rear Window and Psycho, but there's also a touch of The Snake Pit in there for good … Continue reading Sisters (1973)
Once again, a movie poster that conveys way more action than is actually in this movie. Bloody Wednesday is ostensibly based on the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre in 1984, in which a man named James Huberty opened fire in a McDonald's for 77 minutes, killing 21 people and injuring 19 more before being killed by … Continue reading Bloody Wednesday (1988)
Well, that title is a mouthful. You would think that this is a supernatural horror film with a name like that, but this is actually a giallo with some gothic trappings and a taste for BDSM. Rich aristocrat Alan has suffered a mental breakdown after the death of his redheaded wife, Evelyn, at some point … Continue reading The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
A US nuclear sub is loaded with a bunch of US Marines and a British spy and sent on a rescue mission to the arctic circle to find Ice Station Zebra. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union is performing the same mission. Why? Because a satellite has fallen on the station, a satellite containing photographs from a … Continue reading Ice Station Zebra (1968)
