I’m on Diabolique, continuing my look at Umberto Lenzi’s pre-Eurocrime/horror adventure films. This time, it’s Russian history with Catherine of Russia…which is not about Catherine of Russia but is about Catherine the Great.
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On Diabolique, I’m continuing to explore the early adventure films of Umberto Lenzi, famous for his crime and cannibal films. But before that, he was swashbuckling with the Queen of the Seas.
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The Triumph of Robin Hood bounds jauntily from one encounter to the next. Someone gets kidnapped; Robin and his merry men laugh heartily and ride to the rescue; repeat until King Richard returns.
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On Diabolique: Beat Girl, Gillian Hills, go-go dancing, hip slang, seedy strip joints, teenage rebellion, and Oliver Reed in a checkered shirt.
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On The Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about Hammer Films’ These Are the Damned and the intersection of science fiction, horror, and folk horror in the atomic era.
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A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a defenseless woman. So begins the horror of Kaneto Shindô’s tale of ghosts, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women by entitled men.
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Examples of Egyptian filmmaking date back to the beginning of the 20th century, with Cairo becoming a hub of commercial filmmaking in the Arab world with the introduction of sound.
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