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If you’ve followed cult films on video at all in the last decade, you’re familiar with the name David Gregory. He became one of the great cult movie documentarians when he made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth in 2000 and quickly moved into a career of producing top-notch supplements for all manner of More >
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The Grand Guignol never died, it just keeps taking different shapes as the years go by. It’s latest form is The Theater Bizarre, a new horror anthology that incorporates the talents of several different directors for its stories. David Gregory put it all together and the roster of filmmaking talent includes such notables as Richard More >
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This film represents the end of the early era of New World Pictures. Candy Stripe Nurses wasn’t the last film about nurses they would release (that was Don Edmonds’ Tender Loving Care) but it was the last nurse film that was produced by Julie Corman, who had made a lengthy and successful series out of More >
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If there’s a film that qualifies as the “modest but worthwhile” entry of the New World Pictures nurse-flick series, it would be The Young Nurses. Though it hits all the right New World Pictures exploitation marks — a little action, a lot of nudity, a decent helping of left-leaning social commentary — it’s a bit More >
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Jonathan Kaplan is one of the unsung heroes of 1970’s exploitation filmmaking. He’s mostly remembered today for his mainstream directing career, including the cult fave Over The Edge and the Oscar-winning The Accused, but he got his start doing a string of lively, smartly-directed exploitation flicks like Truck Turner and White Line Fever. In these More >
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When Roger’s Corman’s fledgling outfit New World Pictures hit box office gold with The Student Nurses, it was inevitable that a sequel would follow. Its blend of sex, light humor and quasi-feminist themes was perfect for the era and, better yet, something that could easily be replicated. As a result, another four official New World-produced More >
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Now that Severin has expanded its range of genres beyond erotica, Impulse Pictures is becoming the new king of vintage erotica specialists in the cult DVD world. With releases like the Schoolgirl Report series and Aphrodisiac!, they have done a fine job of spreading the retro-skin flick gospel thus far. However, their work reached a More >
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Watching Japan’s “Roman Porno” exploitation films from the 1970’s and 1980’s is an often revelatory experience for the uninitiated. These films are stylish and skillfully produced yet often pack the kind of wallop that grindhouse fans associate with the cheapest, grittiest cine-shockers. A key part of this comes from economic concerns. Nikkatsu Studios started making More >
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Severin Films sublabel InterVision has to be given credit: they’ve delved into the backwaters of 1980’s and 1990’s shot-on-video horror in a way few cult movie labels could be bothered with. Movies like Sledgehammer and Things are the kind of stuff you really have to love to try and make money by releasing it. InterVision More >
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
A nice element of Shout! Factory’s Roger Corman DVD/blu-ray reissue series is that they’ve managed to work in some entries from his Concorde Pictures days alongside the expected New World Pictures fare. For example, there have been quality DVD releases of Jim Wynorski’s Not Of This Earth remake and The Terror Within. More recently, they More >
We’ll close the posting week here at Schlockmania with news of another guest appearance elsewhere on the ‘net: Your Humble Reviewer has contributed a review of the delirious Black Emanuelle 2 at the Severin Films blog as part of their “Forgotten Severin Classics” post series. You can access said post via the following link:
