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[…]
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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[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Roger Corman on New World Pictures: An Interview from 1974
Fun in the New World Corman founded New World in 1970; it was his second attempt to control production and distribution (after the ill-fated Film Group, which lasted a couple[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Producers & Studios · Reviews
Roger Corman’s New World Pictures: Notes Toward a Lexicon
The beloved low-budget exploitation company sampled New World Pictures (1970-1983) was the brainchild of Roger Corman. It was his second attempt (after The Filmgroup in the early ’60s) to run[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Radley Metzger: The Dirty Girls, Carmen Baby, The Princess and the Call Girl on DVD
Will Metzger mania never end? Image Entertainment’s ambitious program of releasing what appears to be just about every Radley Metzger film is a feast for completists and fans of the[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Maverick Metzger: Dark Odyssey and Little Mother
Radley Metzger’s first film and his veiled biopic of saintly slut Evita now on DVD. Radley Metzger’s fame rests largely on having brought sophistication to softcore porn in films like[…]
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Four Metzger Classics on DVD: Therese and Isabelle; Camille 2000; The Lickerish Quartet; Score
Metzger madness begins in earnest with the release of four of his best on DVD “Art” has long functioned as a code word for erotica in certain contexts. Phrases like[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Seduction Is Universal: Thoughts on Radley Metzger
The master of Euro-erotica is starting to get his due in recent revivals The “golden age” of porn during the ’60s and ’70s was more fool’s gold than real for[…]
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Book Reviews: Video Premieres, Vampires on Video, Jackie Chan, Immoral Tales, Filmmaking on the Fringe, Horror and Science Fiction Films
VideoHound’s Vampires on Video, by J. Gordon Melton (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997). Trade paper, $17.95, 335pp. ISBN 1-57859-002-7. Vampires continue to be an important fixture on the cultural landscape,[…]
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Albert Zugsmith’s Opium Dreams: Confessions of an Opium Eater
Can one man’s brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.[…]
Blaxploitation: A Sketch
“America consistently countered the growing concepts of black pride and power with a virtual army of self-sacrificing mammy figures (both male and female), pimps, whores, ‘great black hopes,’ and the[…]
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It’s an Ed Wood World After All!
The “world’s worst director” never apologized for wearing women’s clothes, though many have questioned his taste in sweaters. The story goes that Disney Studios threw Tim Burton a bone in[…]
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Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Stand back when ballooned-up, masacara-drenched go-go girls leave the confines of their cages for a murderous desert rampage! A cornerstone of both camp and punk cultures — no mean feat[…]
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Russ Meyer: An Interview
Behind that mountain of oversized tits-and-ass that make up his “body” of work is an extremely intelligent, charming, and funny man, well-versed in cinema history and pop culture. My first[…]
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Sex Kitchens All Over Town: An Interview with Annie Sprinkle
“In the future, everybody will be so sexually satisfied, there’ll be an end to violence, rape and war. We will establish contact with extra-terrestrials and they will be very sexy.”[…]
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