Eye of the Cat is a movie where the biggest mystery isn’t who’s trying to kill Aunt Danny — it’s how this fever-dream of a furball thriller ever got greenlit in the first place. Think of it as a murder plot wrapped in a shampoo commercial, tied up in a ball of yarn, and left … Read More “Eye of the Cat (1969) – Nine Lives, Zero Plot” »
If you’ve ever wanted to combine the aesthetic of a perfume ad with the narrative logic of a ransom note written by an absinthe-soaked taxidermist, The Exquisite Cadaver is the art house horror-thriller you didn’t ask for. It’s like someone took a Hitchcock script, translated it into Catalan using a meat grinder, and then tried … Read More “The Exquisite Cadaver (1969) – Or, “Love in the Time of Dismemberment”” »
Leave it to 1969 to produce a made-for-TV movie that combines ghostly apparitions, Cold War paranoia, and enough waxy handprints to make Madame Tussauds question her life choices. Daughter of the Mind isn’t just a title—it’s a full-blown psychological séance conducted over rotary phones and government surveillance. Think Scooby-Doo if the villain was the Soviet … Read More “Daughter of the Mind (1969) – Daddy’s Little Ghost Spy” »
If Ed Wood and a horny freshman psychology major had teamed up to make a horror film after a night of cheap wine and Freudian fever dreams, the result might resemble The Curious Dr. Humpp. Released in Argentina under the absolutely bonkers title La venganza del sexo (“The Revenge of Sex”), it’s a film that … Read More “The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969) – A Libido-Fueled Laboratory of Lunacy” »
If you’ve ever wanted to watch Count Dracula sip blood out of a martini glass while his hunchbacked buddy chains up miniskirted women in the basement, you might be Blood of Dracula’s Castle’s exact target audience. The rest of us? We’re just trapped in a time loop of polyester, poor lighting, and a plot stitched … Read More “Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969) – Cursed by Budget, Spared by Logic” »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Scooby-Doo wandered into a moldy, over-lit Italian castle and forgot how to solve mysteries—or act—La bambola di Satana has your answer. Spoiler: no Satan, barely a doll, and the only thing haunted is the script. This 1969 gothic horror outing from Ferruccio Casapinta (a man whose own … Read More “La bambola di Satana (1969) – Satan Called, He Wants a Refund” »
Ah, Le Viol du Vampire, or as I like to call it: Confessions of a French Art Student Who Discovered Vampires, Psychedelics, and Nudity in the Same Weekend. This 1968 fever dream of a film was Jean Rollin’s directorial debut—and much like your first attempt at fondue, it’s ambitious, overheated, and guaranteed to leave a … Read More “Le Viol du Vampire (1968) “Jean Rollin’s cinematic bloodletting begins with a whimper, ends with a shrug, and stumbles through 90 minutes of what-the-hell-was-that in between.”” »
Well, file this one under “Yikes: The Motion Picture.” Twisted Nerve is the cinematic equivalent of a sharp whistle in a quiet library—shrill, uncomfortable, and liable to get you side-eyed by every mental health professional in the vicinity. Directed by Roy Boulting and starring a disturbingly cheerful Hywel Bennett and an unfortunately roped-in Hayley Mills, … Read More “Twisted Nerve (1968) “Just because you’re moody doesn’t mean you’re Hitchcock.”” »
Ah, The Snow Woman. A cinematic snowdrift of moody lighting, icy vengeance, and feudal-era woodcarving that moves at the breakneck pace of… well, permafrost melting. Directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and loosely adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s haunting tale, this film promises spectral elegance and delivers two hours of snowfall, solemnity, and awkward Buddhist statue drama so … Read More “The Snow Woman (1968) “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Please Let it End.”” »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Masterpiece Theatre and Faces of Death had an unwanted love child during a plague year, Witchfinder General is your answer: a brutal slog through East Anglia’s most scenic burning pyres, featuring Vincent Price in a powdered wig and all the moral clarity of a wet musket. This … Read More “Witchfinder General – Vincent Price Stars in Torture Porn for Puritans” »