The Return of Violent Saturday
Review of Twilight Time’s most excellent Blu-ray disc of Richard Fleischer’s tough noir-melodrama Violent Saturday (1955) + some cautionary editorial blather.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Jess Franco’s Bloody Moon + other merry sexploitation misadventures
A triple-threat of Jess Franco sleaze: reviews of Bloody Moon (1981) on Blu and Devil Hunter (1980) on DVD from Severin Films + Franco’s Linda (1981), and quick thoughts on Solar Crisis, Richard C. Sarafian’s orphan epic sci-fi flick that sort of popped up in a related news report this week.
BR: Bloody Moon / Die Säge des Todes (1981)
Although promised by German producers he’d have a top American special effects whiz and a score by Pink Floyd (!), after agreeing to make Bloody Moon, Jess Franco discovered the only truth in their sales pitch was the casting of actress Olivia Pascal…
DVD: Devil Hunter / Sexo-Canibal (1980)
The second of Severin Films’ Jess Franco-Video Nasty couplet (after Bloody Moon) is this wan tale of a kidnapping gone awry when crooks lose their meal ticket (and sexual pin-cushion) on an island populated by a cannibal cult that periodically offer up the other white meat to a flesh-eating freak…
Film: Linda / Story of Linda, The / Orgy of the Nymphomaniacs (1981)
The second of Jess Franco’s two films for not really astute writer-production manager Erich Tomek, Linda is a classic Jess Franco mish-mash where story and coherent editing are not required, making this both a fun and frustrating experience…
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