Keith Allison, Author at Diabolique Magazine

Author: Keith Allison

Brass Before Ass: Exploring Swinging London with Deadly Sweet

Posted by Keith Allison | Mar 15, 2021 | Film Reviews, Slider

Deadly Sweet is experimental but still commercial. Bleak but still bubbly and colorful. Tinto Brass seems to think that Swinging London is still, you know, swinging.

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All the Colors of the Rainbow Man

Posted by Keith Allison | Mar 6, 2021 | Film, Film Reviews, Slider

Rainbow Man includes a credit for “Mescaline Hallucination Envisioned By,” so you know you’re in for…well, something. Indeed the film’s plot reads like someone took some mescaline to come up with it.

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I Spit On Your Grave…No, Your Other Grave

Posted by Keith Allison | Oct 11, 2020 | Film Reviews, Slider

American Race Relations and Juvenile Delinquency through the Lens of J’irai cracher sur vos tombes...

Catch a Shooting Hustler: Yakuza, Borderless Action, and Velvet Hustler

Posted by Keith Allison | Aug 28, 2020 | Feature Articles, Slider

Nikkatsu’s new style of action films were dubbed “borderless” because they strove to adopt an international feel. Although American film noir is pegged as the obvious influence, in many ways it was the later distillation of that genre via French crime films that proved to be the model for Nikkatsu borderless action.

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