Tag Archives: Sexploitation

Two years after her erotic thriller exploitation masterpiece Stripped to Kill (1987), writer-director Katt Shea debuted a sequel that, in many ways, might be even better than the original. Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls (1989), which turns 30 this year, retains all of ...

History: Nikkatsu, Japan, and the Studio System With the exception of Toho, Nikkatsu is perhaps the most renowned, important of all classic Japanese film studios. Founded in 1912, its also one of the earliest and oldest. Producing primarily realist cinema ...

After his last film, Berberian Sound Studio, British director Peter Strickland became quite a name film circles. The artistic flare of his cinematography, matched with a sensible wit and familiarity with Italian exploitation tropes allowed the film to perform well for ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

Another entry into Ascot Elite Home Entertainment’s Jess Franco Golden Goya Collection and one more Franco film steeped in ‘tropical’ charm: Voodoo Passion aka Call of the Blonde Goddess (1977). If you look at the catalogue of the director’s films ...

One year before making his directorial debut with the horror-thriller Seizure, Oliver Stone produced his first film—co-produced and co-written by future Troma President Lloyd Kaufman and directed and co-written by Theodore Gershuny (Silent Night, Bloody Night)—Sugar Cookies. Despite the recognizable ...

Continuing our series of reviews of Blu-Ray titles from the new Jess Franco Golden Goya Collection—being released by German company, Ascot Elite Home Entertainment, we now come to Das Frauenhaus (a.k.a. Blue Rita – 1977)—a colorful and highly stylized soft-core ...

Ascot Elite Home Entertainment, a German film studio, has released The Jess Franco Golden Goya Collection—a series of films that Spanish exploitation maestro Jess Franco made with producer Erwin C. Dietrich and Elite Film during the 1970’s. Most of these ...

The Flesh and Blood Show (1972) is the second Pete Walker release by Redemption/Kino to get the Blu-ray treatment. The film represents Walker at a time of transition in his career; a time when he started to make the move from ...