Monday 29 June 2020

Satan’s Baby Doll [La bimba di Satana/ A Girl For Satan/ Sexorgien im Satansschloß]


An utterly deranged movie that began life as a hard porn production, but then got downgraded to soft porn before finally being released as a horror movie with a disproportionate amount of scenes involving ladies wanking.

Sunday 28 June 2020

Love Goddess Of The Cannibals [Papaya dei Caraibi/ Caribbean Papaya]


Moralises about the evils of folk from rich countries that turn up in poor countries and steal valuable land and resources from the indigenous population in order to build nuclear power plants. This message is softened somewhat by the choice to communicate it via the medium of soft-core pornography. No cannibals.

Sunday 21 June 2020

The Platform [El hoyo]


A film so wrapped up in presenting a barbed, society-critiquing allegory that it forgets to include obvious stuff like a story that makes sense, characters you give a shit about and context that might make that oh so clever allegory actually cut deep.

Saturday 6 June 2020

One On Top Of The Other [Una sull'altra/ Perversion Story]


Springs from the same source as Hitchcock’s Vertigo only with considerably more strippers and erotic photographers.

Ballad In Blood


An eye-wateringly insensitive take on the murder of Meredith Kercher that suggests that all students from overseas are permanently ripped off their tits on hard drugs, incapable of empathy and lacking in any form of emotional coherence. Though this only really takes up a small fraction of the running time of the movie, the rest being dedicated to a thorough examination of breasts.