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Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
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Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
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Dancing with Werewolves: John Sayles in Roger Corman’s Hollywood
It Came from New World Pictures!
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
Animation · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Treasures of Puppet Cinema: Pinocchio, Attack of the Puppet People, Black Devil Doll from Hell
Wooden bottom boyz, teensy teens, and a Satanic blackface Charlie McCarthy – these are just a few of the offerings from le cinema puppet! Pinocchio Walt Disney made horror movies[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Of Horny Hunchbacks and Stitch Bitches: Le Cinema Milligan
If you think his films are bad, wait till you see his life Among its many pleasures, the sixties opened the floodgates for cinematic sleaze. Subjects hitherto found only in[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Chained Girls (1965): A Twilight Tale of the Third Sex
Who is that comely, vicious gal plotting mayhem from the shadows? Why, the dyke of 1960s pop culture, of course. “Lesbians have their variations from one group to another. There[…]
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
The Japanese Pink Film: Tandem, The Bedroom, and The Dream of Garuda on DVD
All jargon and no authenticity? Of the vast numbers of corporate-made genre films that flooded Japanin the 1970s, Donald Richie once remarked that the “West knows nothing of these pictures,[…]
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Better Beauty Through Technology: Chinese Transnational Feminism and the Cinema of Suffering
Feminism adrift in a sea of ogling orientalism, global capitalism, and fatalist aesthetics INTRODUCTION Chinese Women’s Issues Under the Polar Aesthetics of Female Suffering and Mulan-ism Since the 1919 May[…]
Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
The Girls Can’t Help It: Baise-Moi (2000)
Feminist screed or fetish-screwfest? Flip a coin Female revenge films aren’t exactly an unknown quantity, especially in the exploitation circuit. Pam Grier was one of the genre’s superstars in the[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Poverty Row, Wardour Street: The Last Years of British Exploitation Cinema
This golden age is more like fool’s gold, but it has its thrills Even as a Brit, when I think of exploitation cinema, I tend to think of Roger Corman,[…]
Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica
Cass Paley’s Wadd: The Life and Times of John Holmes (1999)
Livin’ large with the Hung One Porn has had its share of superstars, but none were bigger – in every sense – than John Holmes. This “little boy with a[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Decadence AIP Style: Cy Endfield’s De Sade (1969)
“No actual fucking!” as the author says, but there are plenty of other pleasures in this lurid ’60s rarity whose authorship remains contested. American International Picture’s De Sade (starring Keir[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Horror · Pre-Code · Reviews
Todd Browning’s Freaks (1932): Production Notes and Analysis
The normals are the real freaks in this still gut-wrenching horror classic Production Notes In mid-1931, MGM production head Irving Thalberg summoned scenarist Willis Goldbeck to tell him the time[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
“They Ate His Genitals!” A Sampling of European Sex and Horror Films
It wasn’t long ago that the idea of seeing a Lucio Fulci film outside its natural habitat of the urban grindhouse or the obscure home video would have been too[…]
Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
A Tired Bag of Tricks: Nick Broomfield’s Fetishes
Literal commodity fetishism in the far fringes of New York’s S&M scene In the mid-’70s, I spent some time in Los Angeles in the hetero s&m subculture. My best friend[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
“Not That I’m Horatio Alger”: Russ Meyer on The Supervixens
SuperRuss speaks! I interviewed Russ Meyer in 1974 at his office in Los Angeles. He answered the door himself, dressed in red jockey shorts with a strip of film dangling over his[…]
Actors & Personalities · Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story: A Documentary
Liberated porn queen or psychological wreck? You be the judge. In a demimonde as duplicitous as the porn world, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that some of its players[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
The Alley Cats (1966) on DVD
Can your heart stand it? More Radley Metzger! The title of Metzger’s “second film” (second by his own reckoning; other sources list it as his fourth, after Dark Odyssey, The[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Graverobbers and Drag Queens from Outer Space! Four Ed Wood Greats on DVD
Plan 9 from Outer Space; Glen or Glenda; Jail Bait; Bride of the Monster One of my fondest memories of a communal movie experience is seeing my first Ed Wood[…]
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