Arabella (Tinì Cansino) loves sex. Alas, her husband Francesco (Francesco Casale) is confined to a wheelchair, an angry man who writes thrilling novels of the sex and violence surrounding a character he refers to as his Black Angel. So, Arabella winds up in the sleaziest places. As the film opens, she’s dressed for fetishy good […]
Read more "Welcome to the Infernal Regions: Arabella Black Angel"There’s a killer stalking the backwoods. He creeps around, finding some likely targets—always amorous lovers in their cars—and then he strikes. The men he does away with a single gunshot, the women face worse: six or seven pistol rounds from close range, mutilation with a knife or scalpel, and then further degradations. Christiana Marelli (Mariangela […]
Read more "Drop It: The Killer is Still Among Us"Dagmar (Stefania D’Amario) and her sensitive younger sister Ursula (Barbara Magnolfi) are recovering from the unexpected death of their father. They travel to a lovely hotel, possibly in search of the mother who left them or perhaps to escape their problems. Alas, they’ve stumbled into some new ones. Fillipo Andre (Marc Porel) is a charismatic […]
Read more "Primitive Sensitivities: The Sister of Ursula"After making it to school and finding herself in the unenviable position of becoming the only human to ever befriend the lethal Meduse aliens, Binti found herself transformed from a human being to something between human and Meduse. Her hair has become living tentacles, one of them tipped with the same sort of stinger that […]
Read more "Puzzling: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: Home"When Jenny (Linda Carol) played getaway driver for her boyfriend she swerved left instead of right and wound up smashing up the car. The judge (Archie Lang) sentenced her to three years in reform school, and that’s when her trip to hell began. The warden Sutter (Sybil Danning) has no patience for ethical treatment: about […]
Read more "This Ain’t No Joyride, Ladies: Reform School Girls"The Woods family got their big, beautiful house at auction, cheap and fully furnished. It’s the perfect home base for Keira (Elisha Cuthbert), Brian (Eoin Macken), frustrated teenager Ellie (Abby Fitz), and wee Steven (Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady). The kids have room to hang out and get away from one another. The parents have a studio […]
Read more "The Counts That Thought: The Cellar (2022)"David (Franҫois-Eric Gendron) is a photographer who is tasked with delivering “Blades,” which seems to be a music video project set to Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Warriors of the Wasteland.” His idea is to make it a kind of artsy dance thing, with all the characters dressed up in the same kind of repurposed football […]
Read more "Looks Fade, Dumb is Forever … Or Not: Too Beautiful to Die"Bob Crane (Tom Schanley) is a forest ranger in Yellowstone National Park, on his way to start the day with a little stop off at the trading post to see if a new magazine has come in. It’s got Jessica (Nicola Perring) on the cover, making her way up in the world, a loving message […]
Read more "Clairvoyeur: Nothing Underneath"Maite is a secretary working at a job she doesn’t particularly love, but it mostly pays the bills and leaves her pocket change for records, books, or the latest issues of the romance comics that she really lives for. A regular reader of such stuff, she’s happy to dream about a life that has more […]
Read more "Secret Romances, Hidden Crimes: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Velvet Was the Night"Alex Gardner (Nicholas Celozzi) is haunted by nightmares of a maniac with monstrous appetites and fangs, a fellow in olde time cavalry pants. Sometimes this demonic Commandant (Al Fleming) is stalking up a nasty corridor ankle deep in scummy water and the occasional gruesome corpse. Other times, he’s roasting our hero on a spit, slicing […]
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