Dirk Bogarde stars in German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language film Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] about Hermann Hermann, a 1930s Russian immigrant chocolate magnate businessman in Germany who begins to fall apart and […]
Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film adaptation of the legendary Jean Genet novel Querelle de Brest, which deals lustily with homosexual love, prostitution, drugs and crime, is visually, sexually and emotionally extravagant and lurid. Set […]
‘Your skin will crawl with fear at their nearness’. Jay Simms’s story imagines a group of people are being terrorised on an isolated island by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane. A mad doctor is making humans half […]
‘Fear will pierce your flesh… Until every nerve in your body… EXPLODES!’ Yes, but not all American International Pictures executive producer Roger Corman and producer Gene Corman’s movies have mitigating factors. Director Bernard Kowalski’s $70,000 1959 sci-fi horror […]
Roger Corman’s cult favourite 1957 monster movie Attack of the Crab Monsters has a wild title and a big ugly creature. He recalled: ‘This was the most successful of all the early low budget horror […]
Roman Polanski’s 1962 Polish first feature film Knife in the Water tells of a bored, aging husband and wife couple whose bourgeois conformism is shaken up by a hitch-hiking beatnik young man. The 1962 Polish […]
Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s provocative 1963 Swedish classic challenged the censor at the time for being sexually explicit. In the UK, the chief censor was in holiday when the film was approved. The controversy over the film resulted […]
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