It’s been a hot, steamy summer of updates, repairs, and occasional new stuff. I can’t even remember which ones are which at this point, so let’s jump right in…
Back in action…
Somehow, the animated Ralph Bakshi feature Fire and Ice managed to slip through the cracks, though I can’t imagine it didn’t make the early 1980s cable TV rounds. It’s perfect late-night HBO fare. If I’d seen it back then, I would have embraced it whole-heartedly and probably proclaimed it the best thing I’d ever seen. Or something to that effect.
Judging Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much from its first scene, it would be reasonable to assume one was watching a Fellini movie, or at least a reasonable imitation of Fellini. The opening shot of a TWA plane in flight toward Rome, the bustling capital of high style, suggests the dawn of the age of the jet set
Hatchet for the Honeymoon is not the kind of film to watch for a kill count or ingenious murders. It is the kind of film to watch for paranormal and sartorial phenomena, ghosts, discotheques, mysterious deaths, horrifying old toys, and the narration of a “paranoiac.”
FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION
Even the most mediocre giallo film can serve as a kind of lifestyle guide—especially for those who pine for the life of a 1970’s era Eurotrash jetsetter. There is a downside to that lifestyle, of course, in that, like most of the characters in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, you would be inherently unlikeable.
Keith Allison is the chief Bacchanologist at Teleport City.
#1 by DamonD on July 25, 2019 - 4:09 am
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That choice of picture definitely sums up Fire and Ice.
#2 by ronald on July 26, 2019 - 1:32 am
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“WATCH” (located between “LOCAL FEATURES” and “LISTEN”) is the full list of reviewed films, right? Just making sure. Thanks.
#3 by KeithA on August 1, 2019 - 10:32 am
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That is the correct lay of the land, yes. However, a good many (most) reviews are temporarily offline as they are reformatted to look all nice and purty.