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Todd

  • Dunwich Horror

    In fact, judging from the man’s writings alone, I’d imagine that any attempt by him to describe any normal type of human sexual congress would be one of the most excruciatingly awkward, squirm-inducing things you could possibly read. more ›

  • Battle Beneath the Earth

    For all its failings, Battle Beneath the Earth is a difficult movie to hate. In my case, this is partly due to it having the disarming quality of seeming like it was the result of someone watching me play army… more ›

  • In the Dust of the Stars

    In the Dust of the Stars

    East German production house DEFA got into the scifi game with the solemn The Silent Star. In the Dust of the Stars trades that gravitas for disco style, interpretive dance, and nudity. more ›

  • Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

    Emboldened, perhaps, by the success of the first film and the amount of creative leeway given him by Toei, Ito this time largely dispensed with genre trappings and delivered a film that was even more obviously the product of a… more ›

  • The Godless Girl

    Though our modern eyes might see The Godless Girl as containing, at best, the makings of a solid “B” type feature, DeMille clearly saw himself as making an epic. more ›

  • Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

    Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

    Female Prisoner #701 is a thrilling piece of exploitation cinema, as well as a challenging work of visual artistry. But, as great as it is, it merely set the stage for what was to come. more ›

  • Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom

    The Pinky Violence films of Norifumi Suzuki represent one extreme of the tendency of Japanese exploitation films of the seventies to combine a very high level of craftsmanship with an unflinching preoccupation with human behavior at its most sleazy and… more ›

  • Geetaa Mera Naam

    Geetaa Mera Naam

    Sadhana would get her wish and be remembered as a heroine, even though the most indelible image from the film would be her being whipped while wearing a white mini and go-go boots. more ›

  • Kaala Sona

    Kaala Sona

    There’s just something about the combination of the Western genre’s Spartan, rough-hewn aesthetic with Bollywood’s tendency toward the exuberant and phantasmagorical that I find hard to resist. If you want to join me in this new obsession, Kaala Sona is… more ›

  • James Batman

    I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I find the Philippines’ Tagalog language pop cinema of the 1960s strikingly similar to Turkish pulp cinema of the same period. The products of both are comparably rough hewn and action oriented and, by necessity of… more ›

  • Slogan

    Much has been said about Serge Gainsbourg in his roles as songwriting genius, pop music provocateur, archetypal seedy Frenchman, and guy who told Whitney Houston he wanted to do her on national television, but very little has been said about… more ›

  • Insee Thong

    To judge the film by its shortcomings would be unfair, because the charms that would mitigate them — all of those things that are wonderful about Insee Thong — are less easy to fully appraise. more ›