My introduction, plus capsule contributions of ten video nasties, to a piece published by Little White Lies, on 13 May 2021, entitled Every Video Nasty Ranked From Worst to Best, and timed with the release of Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor Includes capsules of: Absurd, The Boogeyman, Don’t Go In The House, I Miss You, Hugs and…
Tag: Sergio Martino
Silent Action (La polizia accusa: il servizio segreto uccide) (1975)
Silent Action (La polizia accusa: il servizio segreto uccide) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 124 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “A press release and a handful of front pages. Then it’s gonna be the back pages tomorrow – and who cares when everything will be forgotten, right?” This is the complaint of…
Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key first published by VODzilla.co Sergio Martino’s film, written by Ernesto Gastaldi, opens with impressionistic, soft- to out-of- focus sex on a bed. The wavy red hair of one of the two people making love will soon be easily recognised as belonging to Irina (Anita…
Torso (1973)
Torso first published by Little White Lies, as part 40 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “What you see on the screen is not a product of expressionist art. What you have here are fragments of cloth found under the fingernails of one of your companions who was barbarously murdered just one week ago.” Addressing a room…