aka Sexo caníbal
aka Mandingo Manhunter (My personal favorite!)
Director: Jesus "Jess" Franco
Cast: Ursula Fellner, Al Cliver, Robert Foster, Burt Altman, Gisela Hahn, Victoria Adams
Severin Films / Color / NTSC R1 / Unrated / Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) / Dolby Digital Mono / English Dubbing / 89 mins
Extremely prolific filmmaker Jess Franco is the quintessential Euro-sleaze auteur. He has covered everything from zombies, slashers, the supernatural, S&M, straight erotica and so much more. His style is very strange, divisive and always controversial. Some would call him a hack. Some a visionary. And still some a perverted old man with a zoom lens fetish. I say that he is all of these things and I love him for all of them. Having seen a slew of his large library of films I can say that I have rarely been bored and almost always can take something away from the movie that leaves me wanting to see the next one. Thanks to Severin Films I can do just that with the jungle cannibal nude-fest, Devil Hunter! (READ MORE)
aka Nuda per Satana
Director: Luigi Batzella
Cast: Rita Calderoni, Stelio Candelli, James Harris, Renato Lupi
Redemption USA / Color / NTSC R1 / Unrated / Widescreen (1.85:1) / Dolby Digital Stereo / Italian & English (Dubbed) / English Subtitles / 82 mins
Dr. Benson is on his way to a remote insane asylum to work when he sees a young lady, Susan, have a car accident and she is knocked unconscious. He walks to the nearest dark, spooky, Gothic castle to get her help. When he arrives, he is met by a mysterious, creepy man dressed in all black with a black and red cape (that's right, I said a "cape"). The man tells Benson to go inside where he is sure to find some help. All he finds when he enters is some weird goings-on, including meeting a woman that looks exactly like Susan except that she is dressed in old-fashioned clothes and thinks he is someone called "Peter". (READ MORE)
aka Säge des Todes, Die
aka Profonde tenebre
aka Colegialas violadas
Director: Jess Franco
Cast: Olivia Pascal, Christopher Brugger, Alexander Waechter
Severin Films / Color / Unrated / NTSC R0 / Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) / Dolby Digital Mono / English Dubbed / 81 mins
Manuela and disfigured Miguel are an incestuous brother and sister who go to live with their Aunt Maria who owns and operates Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages (or the "EIYCBSoL" as we lazy Americans like to call it) after Miguel is released from the asylum after 5 years for sexually assaulting and murdering a young girl. Luckily for him, the school is nothing but nubile, young hotties! Auntie Maria doesn't like Manuela very much and tells her that even when she dies, Manuela will never inherit her estate and Miguel will be the sole heir. (READ MORE)
Director: Roman Nowicki
Cast: Eliza Borecka, Katarzyna Zelnik, Magda Szymborska, Andrej Jass
Teraz Films / Color / NTSC R0 / Unrated / Varying Aspect Ratios / Dolby Stereo / Language: Polish / Subtitles: English / 90 min.
"WARNING: EXTREME EROTIC HORROR!!" boasts the cover of this Polish sleaze-filled, zero budget, giallo/slasher curiosity. Someone like me (and most of my readers) who is always looking for something different, entertaining and challenging, how could I not pick this up right away? Well, mostly due to my unfamiliarity with it. I have been seeing it, as well as its subsequent sequels, on different genre DVD websites for a couple of years but never pulled the trigger until now. The cover looks as lurid and boundary pushing as anything I have ever seen. And after reading the synopsis, I just had to see it. (READ MORE)
aka Settima donna, La
Director: Franco Prosperi
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Ray Lovelock, Flavio Andreini, Sherry Buchanan, Laura Trotter
Severin Films / Color / NTSC R1 / Unrated / 2.35:1 Widescreen / Dolby Surround & Mono / Language: English / 86 minutes
Following the success of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left, film makers jumped on the bandwagon and tried their hand at filming the sadistic and violent sexual abuse of women. Americans released the mean-spirited I Spit on Your Grave and those sleazy Italians got involved with classics like Night Train Murders and Thriller: A Cruel Picture (aka They Call Her One-Eye). While some enjoyed varying degrees of success, others were forgotten shortly after their release only to be resurrected 30 years later on Region 1 DVD by Severin Films. (READ MORE)
Director: Dan Wolman aka Floch Johnson
Cast: Christina Lindberg, Monica Ekman, Krister Ekman, Leif Naeslund
Impulse Pictures / Color / NTSC R1 / Rated R / Fullscreen (1.33:1) / ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo / 80 mins
If you are a fan of Christina Lindberg but only know her from Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1974), you are missing out. She has made some 20-25 movies, most of which are softcore skin flicks like Anita (1973). Her angelic face complete with pouty, innocent expressions are mixed with a curvy, buxom womanly body that would make Russ Meyer's boner sweat. Who cares that her acting ability extends to being the same quiet, naive, troubled teen girl that gets taken advantage of in almost every role? She has the best tits in retro-skin history! (READ MORE)
Director: Renato Polselli
Cast: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Caldana, Raul Lovecchio, Carmen Young, Christa Barrymore
Blue Underground / Color / Unrated / NTSC R1 / Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) / ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono / ITALIAN: Dolby Digital Mono / Subtitles: English / 102 mins
Criminal psychologist, Dr. Herbert Lyutak is a violent sexual deviant who has been killing young women and is now under suspicion by the authorities. His gorgeous wife begins to also suspect something when she finds a bloody dress in his hiding spot in their home. Herbert is tortured by his "illness" so much so that it has rendered him impotent. But his wife loves him so much that she wants only for him to "love her" and do with her whatever he wants (including playing rough). But he will not let himself harm the woman he loves. In fact, he wants to divorce her to keep her safe but she will not allow it. She begs him to stay and act out his aggressions on her. (READ MORE)
NOTE: The Cinema Epoch website and DVD list the movie as 1967, but everywhere else says 1966. I will go with the distributor of the movie.
Director: Benjamin Andrews (incorrectly listed as Gilbert Wolmark on IMDB)
Cast: Michelle Angelo
Cinema Epoch / B&W / NTSC R1 / Widescreen (16x9) / English Dubbed / 67 minutes
Dani is an owner of a nightclub where all of the cool young kids hang out, but the club is in financial trouble. So she hires Mike to help her out with her cash flow problem. The two concoct a devious plan to extort money from some of their beautiful teenage girl patron's parents. First they must introduce selected girls to a world of sex and drugs, thus getting them hooked on the "kicks". Those kicks involve charging lecherous old men to act out their most perverse and sadistic fantasies with the girls and letting the young ladies keep the money. (READ MORE)
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Cast: Alison Elliott, Anthony Forrest, JoAnne Good, Tom Marshall, David Jackson, Jane Hayden
Redemption Films / NTSC R1 / Unrated / 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen / Mono / 90 minutes
What would happen if the Brits took the backwoods raping and terrorizing of The Last House on the Left and a bit of the ol' ultra violence (and Droog outfits) from A Clockwork Orange but didn't stop there; what if they added a smidgen of sardonic, dry humor? That's what you get with Killer's Moon. But get this... all of that sleazy violence... it all happens to a group of innocent, barely pubescent high school choir girls. No shit! "Of course it's a dream! And stuffed full of jailbait!" <---- actual quote from the movie. (READ MORE)
Director: Herman Yau
Cast: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Yeung Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing, Wong Tsui-ling, Miu-Ying Chan
Discotek Media / Unrated / NTSC R1 / Color / 1.85:1 Widescreen (16x9) / Dolby 2.0 / English Subtitled / Language: Cantonese / 98 minutes
Kai (Wong) is in the midst of fucking his boss's wife when he is interrupted by said boss and promptly reprimanded... or humiliated, whatever... tomayto, tomahto. Anywho, this enrages Kai and he kills everyone in sight and if they have a vagina, he rapes them. 10 years later, he has escaped the Hong Kong authorities and is now living in Johannesburg, South Africa which, oddly, has a "China Town". He works for a restaurant owner and his cunty wife who take advantage of their knowledge of his "situation" by underpaying him and generally mistreating him. (READ MORE!)
aka Die of Pleasure
Director: Joe D'Amato
Cast: Melissa Chimenti (credited as "Melissa"), Sirpa Lane, Maurice Poli
Severin Films / Colour / Widescreen 1.85:1 (16x9) / 89 mins / Not Rated / R1(NTSC) / English Dolby Digital 2.0
A group of geologists are researching a remote tropical island in order to build an atomic reactor there. To make way for the reactor, they have to move the indigenous people from their homeland. This doesn't sit well with Papaya, the lovely and deadly leader of the people who tries to save her home by seducing the geologists one by one and murdering them. Vincent, one of the geologists, runs into his old friend Sara, a journalist, and the two settle in for some good old-fashioned doinking. Later, the two run into Papaya on their way to check out the building site and she invites them to a "siesta" called the "Round Rock Ritual" (or some such nonsense). Vin ends up falling for Papaya, Sara gets busy with Pap's friend and the rest of the village just gets naked and dances (I'll get to that a little later). (READ MORE!)
Director: Bosco Lam
Cast: Julie Lee, Yvonne Yung Hung, Siu-Kei Lee, Ching Mai, Lawrence Ng
Discotek / NTSC Region 1 / Not Rated / 1:85.1 Widescreen (16x9) / Dolby Digital 2.0 / Audio: Cantonese / Subtitles: English / Time: 88 min
Shaw, aka "Little Cabbage", is sold to her father's landlord after he can no longer pay his rent. The landlord, who is called "The Scholar" is enamored by Little Cabbage's beauty and small feet so he plans on making her his concubine but this doesn't sit well with his sexually insatiable wife. While he is away, Cabbage finds out the wife is having an affair with a court official's son after she hears sexual noises coming from the young master's bedroom. (READ MORE!)
aka The Curse of Ursula
Writer/Director: Enzo Milioni
Star: Barbara Magnolfi
DVD Company: Severin Films
Clairvoyant Ursula and her sister check into an Italian seaside villa after their father's death. Soon after they arrive bizarre murders of the villa's other occupants begin. The murderer watches couples have sex, knocks the women unconscious, then proceeds to fuck them to death. That's right, with a HUGE phallus that we only see in shadow. Ursula thinks that her father is haunting her and sees visions of him with women. She also has visions of one of the other guests, Roberto, killing her. What do all of these things have in common? Do they tie together? (READ MORE!)
Soon a after a young woman named Isabella is forced to stay in a convent, weird and evil things begin to happen there. She rebels against the sisters by acting out sexually and starts planning her escape. Then, a man is found injured in the courtyard and is taken in by the sisterhood. He turns out to have plans of his own to defile each and every virgin in the church. An evil spirit tormenting and tempting all of the nuns with sexual desire shows up around the time the man was found. Could he be the human incarnation of the demon? Isabella plans on using the man to help her with her escape, but can she trust him? (READ MORE!)
Cast: Laura Gemser
In this, the last of the D'Amato/Gemser Black Emanuelle series, we find journalist/sexpot Emanuelle (Gemser) following an Italian gangster to Kenya for an interview. But while she is there, she finds something a lot more juicy; a possible "white slavery" ring. So she heads back to New York City to use her contacts and find out everything about it. She soon infiltrates the ring and nothing can stop her from getting her story! (read more)
Cast: Sharon Lesley (aka Shulamith Lasri), Percy Hogan, Angelo Infanti
Beautiful model Emanuelle is held in a mental hospital for amnesia and "sexual neurosis". The good Dr. Paul takes special interest in her case and plays detective to try and find out her past. So he tracks down old co-workers, her dad and her ex-husband to get the story. So we are told her story through a series of sometimes bizarre flashbacks from her and the people closest to her.
Through these flashbacks we learn that Emanuelle's emotions and memories are tied to one horrible event. But what was it? What does it have to do with red helmets? We see how her memories are a bit off as she tells of being victimized by the men in her life who love her. But when they tell the same stories, they tell of her becoming scared and defensive when they show her love. What's going on, E? We love you! (read more)
