Rather, this update is all about stuff I was about to lose from my Netflix streaming list. Next time for sure, though.
Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc. (1971), in which Copenhagen’s most responsible whore goes out of business…
Dumplings (2004), in which Fruit Chan decides that fetus-eating as a home remedy for aging is a good enough premise to sustain an entire feature…
Fascination (1979), in which Jean Rollin tosses bandits, a blood cult, and a scantily clad slasher into the blender, and rather surprisingly pulls out a fully coherent movie…
The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943), in which William Beaudine proves no better at spooky house mysteries than he was at mad science or Wild West vampires…
Nightmares Come at Night (1970), in which something had better come sometime…
Orloff and the Invisible Man (1970), in which even Jesus Franco can be a target for rip-off artists…
Sacred Flesh (1999), in which nunsploitation reenactor Nigel Wingrove simply will not… shut… up…
and…
The Wicker Tree (2011), in which Robin Hardy shows Neil LaBute what a crappy Wicker Man movie really looks like.
#1 by RogerBW on November 16, 2015 - 6:11 am
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The 13th Guest: “either Speed McGinnis or Speed Dugan, depending on whether you prefer to believe the dialogue or the closing credits.” – Kwalitee!
I was wondering why you said “played as an adult by” exactly where you did. My hat’s off to you, sir!
Nightmares Come at Night: also an unfortunate translation in the title, since the obvious response is “well, duh” while the French version doesn’t repeat the syllable. But “bad dreams come at night” wouldn’t have had the same force.
The Wicker Tree: “eh, we don’t need to do research, that young people music all sounds the same anyway”. And yes, my first reaction to “the heathens of Scotland” was “chapel or kirk”.
The nuclear power plant just seems like one thing too many. If you have a bunch of movie-pagans trying to restore their fertility, you don’t need an explicit cause for the problem; that belongs in a different sort of story.
The more subtle version of a Wicker Man sequel would have the cult clothe itself in Real, True Christian language and forms – thus getting social acceptability and a steady stream of new recruits. Sadly, all too many of the audience would get offended; I think they have trouble understanding that liars can pretend to be good Godly people well enough to fool them.
#2 by supersonic man on November 16, 2015 - 10:27 am
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Dang, that is disappointing news about The Wicker Tree.
#3 by Anna on November 16, 2015 - 11:12 pm
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‘Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc.’ – I think it’s funny that you refer to the voyeur as “perverted”, when he’s doing the same thing all of us that watch erotica are doing. XD As an aside, have you considered review any of Misty Mundae’s softcore erotica? She is quite something to behold.
#4 by El Santo on November 17, 2015 - 8:46 am
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“I think it’s funny that you refer to the voyeur as ‘perverted’, when he’s doing the same thing all of us that watch erotica are doing.”
It isn’t watching other people have sex that’s perverted. It’s hiding in the closet while you do it, so that they (or just one of them in this case) don’t know they’re being watched.
As for Misty Mundae, I won’t say no categorically, but I’m not in any great hurry to check her out, either. She got her start right around the time that the median quality level for softcore skin flicks plunged toward unwatchability, for a complex of reasons that basically boil down to “let’s be more like hardcore in terms of acting, writing, editing, and direction, but show even less than we would have ten years ago.”
#5 by Jason Farrell on November 17, 2015 - 7:28 am
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Watched the Wicker Tree because I thought it was an Asylum mock buster..never would have known it was the original director and I must have missed Lee’s cameo hard to get through it with those leads..like swimming through molasses
#6 by Anna on November 17, 2015 - 8:12 pm
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@El Santo – really just kidding about hiding in the closet thing.
About Misty Mundae, I can see where the parody movies (‘Lord of the G-Strings’,etc.) don’t offer much beyond Misty, perhaps her movies ‘Chantal’ and ‘Lustful Addiction’ are worth the look?
#7 by The Rev. on November 19, 2015 - 2:27 pm
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With the time of year, maybe your killer critter movie will be Thankskilling 3, so I can be saved from my morbid curiosity regarding it. Which is ridiculous since I pretty much hated the first one.
I feel like I should find Three…Extremes, as I can approach the dumplings story from the opposite direction you did, having already seen the full-length version.
Too bad about The Wicker Tree.
#8 by Braineater on November 28, 2015 - 8:59 pm
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Three days after you posted this, I found a used copy of “The Wicker Tree” in a video store in central Georgia.
For 99 cents.
I call it a Sign.