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Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The Devils (1971)
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu, but hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
Over-the-top blasphemous and deliberately in bad taste, this infamous movie seems likewise as possessed and fevered as the hysteria it depicts.
Halliwell**: "Despite undeniable technical proficiency this is its writer-director's most outrageously sick film to date, campy, idiosyncratic and in howling bad taste from beginning to end, full of worm-eaten skulls, masturbating nuns, gibbering courtiers, plague sores, rats and a burning to death before our very eyes...plus a sacrilegious dream of Jesus."
Maltin**1/2: "Fine performances save confused mixture of history, comedy, and surrealism...A mad movie, with fiery finale not for the squeamish."
Witchfinder General (1968)
A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch hunter.
[The Conqueror Worm is an alternative title for the USA release]
Robot Monster (1953)
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick with the 160' mapping lens made by NASA that he used to achieve HAL's fish-eye POV in 2001
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Monday, 20 April 2015
Always in the Way (1915)
A four-year-old child, unloved by her stepmother, runs away home and is taken under care by missionaries and travels with them to Africa.
The Bat People (1974)
After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife.
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