The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The opening shot of Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much encapsulates the the age of the jet set. It’s a bit like Roman Holiday…if Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn got caught up in a murder mystery.
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Diabolique: Vadim’s Vamps
I’m on Diabolique with a follow-up to my article about 1932’s Vampyr and Carmilla. “Vadim’s Vamps” follows the lady vampire into the 1960s, where she finds herself under the stewardship of swinger Roger Vadim.
Read moreIsland of Death
Island of Death still has the power to shock and entertain in a hilariously debased, grubby way. Twists are heaped upon perversions until the whole thing threatens to collapse into one giddily irredeemable pile of filth.
Read moreDiabolique: Taste the Hamburger of Dracula!
My write-up of Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned has moved to the Carfax Abbey that is Diabolique. THIS should have been the future of Marvel movies: an anime adaptation of Tomb of Dracula.
Read moreDiabolique: Something Always Happens to Someone
It opens as any good film should: with a secret society of hooded criminals — the Crooked Circle — swearing allegiance to one another, to crime, to the occult, to pretty much anything evil they can think of.
Read moreSex and Naps
On the surface, The Wicker Man is the story of one police constable’s attempt to scrooge up a town’s May Day revelries. Delving deeper into its waters, however, is aided by a few key texts that informed the film.
Read moreDiabolique: The Shadow of Carmilla
On Diabolique: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s surreal 1932 horror film Vampyr, Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” and the early history of vampire fiction, including dastardly Lord Ruthven and hapless Varney.
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