Director Ken Dixon not only brings us a film with one of the greatest titles ever written, because what could be better than Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, but he also gives us another fine entry in “Films based on Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” with this particular offering taking that well-worn premise into…
Tag: sexploitation
Turkey Shoot (1982) – Review
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…
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…
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) – Review
Filmmaker Russ Meyer is known for writing and directing a series of sexploitation films throughout the late 60s and into 1970s that utilized campy humour to satirize the status quo and pop culture of the time, which he did fairly well, but when one thinks of Russ Meyer it’s hard to correlate the fact that…
Barbarella (1968) – Review
Adapting comic books to the big screen is nothing new but in 1968 producer Dino De Laurentiis and director Roger Vadim weren’t interested in the likes of Batman or Superman, instead, they set their sights on a French science-fiction comic book about a space-going heroine who solved many her problems through her sexual liberation. This…