Teruo Ishii’s Blind Woman’s Curse comes to Blu
Review of Teruo Ishii’s Blind Woman’s Curse / Kaidan nobori ryû ((1970), new on Blu from Arrow Video USA / MVD Visual.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
BR: Blind Woman’s Curse / Kaidan nobori ryû (1970)
Teruo Ishii was obviously a craftsman – Blind Woman’s Curse is extremely well-directed and shows both style and care for characters, story, potent visuals, and great use of colour and surreal elements – but he was also a little eccentric, folding together action, violence, severed body parts, some erotic bits, and genuinely surreal imagery…
R.I.P. Film Composer James Horner, 61.
Tribute to Oscar-winning film composer James Horner (Aliens, Titanic), reported killed in a plane crash June 22nd.
The Return of ROAR (1981) + some rare publicity materials from down under.
Lengthy review of Tippi Hedren’s ROAR (1981), currently touring cinemas courtesy of Olive Films and Drafthouse Films + some rare Aussie publicity pap.
Film: Roar (1981)
The backstory of what some critic dubbed ‘the most expensive home movie ever made’ is truly fascinating, and a striking example of obsession, perseverance, and insanity. Ultimately costing $17 million, this extremely earnest effort to bring the issue of the rapid decimation of big cat populations in Africa to the masses took 11 years…
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