Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Notorious Concubines
The Notorious Concubines is as odd an entry in Koji Wakamatsu’s oeuvre as The Straight Story was an a-typical David Lynch film. Wakamatsu isn’t the most typical filmmaker and he’s often the discussion of heavy debates. To date, there hasn’t been a Wakamatsu review on Delirium Vault, but there was a forum topic on whether [...]
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Les Deux Orphelines Vampires
If one had to summarize the works of Jean Rollin into just two words, I would pick “vampires” and “nudity”. Not just because the director made a movie called La Vampire Nue, but mainly because it’s hard to think of a Rollin movie without gratuitous nudity.
Not that I’m not lauching a general complaint against Rollin’s [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Mini Review: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
As I don’t have time to write a full new review tonight, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to dive into my archives and fish for an older review. I found this mini review of a movie that - according to me, anyhow - shouldn’t go unmentioned at DV: the classic tale [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nuda Per Satana
The Dutch label Filmfreaks has launched a sublabel, Sodemented Cinema, which - according to the blurb on their covers - aims to release “the very best in badbad taste”.
If you don’t take their word for that, feel free to watch one of their first releases, Nuda Per Satana (a.k.a. Naked For Satan) by Luigi Batzella.
Not [...]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
A Day in the Death of Donny B.
A Day in the Death of Donny B. is a pretty obscure short from 1969. (Well, 1969ish: I say 1969 because that’s the info I’d been given, but to me this felt very much like a child of the early Seventies).
This movie is so unknown the IMDb fails to list the title, the director or [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
It’s no wonder so many novels by Vladimir Nabokov were made into movies. After all, we are talking about the man who once said: “If you don’t admire all the colours when you are outside, there is no point in becoming a writer.” The same goes for watching a movie by Mario Bava: he [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The Crazies
If you’d force me to limit my George A. Romero collection to three movies, my choices would be Night of the Living Dead (for evident reasons), Martin (where Romero manages to keep you guessing what’s true and what’s not) and The Crazies. In The Crazies (which occasionally is also named Code Name: Trixie) a small [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
R.I.P. Stan Winston
Stan Winston, an Academy Award-winning special effects and makeup artist, died Sunday after a long struggle with multiple myeloma. He was 62. He won four Oscars in the special effects and makeup categories for his work in Aliens, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park.
But if you take a closer look at Winston’s filmography, you’ll spot a [...]
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
My videotape of The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue is living proof of how Eurotrash this movie is: not only do I find myself watching a Spanish/Italian film with an international group of actors filmed in the United Kingdom, I’m also watching the Belgian version: dubbed in French with Dutch subtitles. Yes, in just that [...]
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Tarzan in Istanbul
Granted… “Me Tarzan, you Netzia” does sound a bit odder than the original, but that never stopped the Turks from remaking Tarzan.
In fact, there isn’t much that stops them: we’ve already been treated to Turkish remakes of Superman, ET, Star Trek, Star Wars, Captain America, Santo and Spiderman… there’s always room for another famous ripoff, [...]
