I don’t know how the idea of making a dystopian movie combining Mervyn Leroy’s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang with Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” came to pass – I’m betting alcohol was involved – but director Brian Trenchard-Smith took that very unique mixture and gave us a film…
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Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977) – Review
The sexploitation films of the 60s and late 70s were a hallmark of non-explicit sexual situations but contained lots of gratuitous nudity, which kind of set themselves apart from hardcore pornography that would populate adult movie theatres of the 1970s and 1980s, yet there was a subgenre of sexploitation called Nazisploitation, which consisted of films…
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) – Review
The 1970s were a booming time for eco-horror films, with nature attack films exploding across cinemas worldwide, and no bigger subgenre of this was the killer bee movie, which itself grew out of the fear that the South American strain of the African killer bee would invade the States and kill countless Americans, but that…
Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back (1990) – Review
One must admire a low budget sword and sorcery movie for having the balls to use a subtitle that referenced a certain classic Star Wars sequel but having watched the film that’s about all I can admire of it, and as sequels go this one barely qualifies as such, and the sole purpose for its…
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (1984) – Review
When you watch Raiders of the Lost Ark one thing is clearly missing, and that would be gratuitous nudity and bondage, which was an oversight that director Just Jaeckin sought to correct with his film Gwendoline (later retitled The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak), and by using a character created by…