Almost 25 years ago when I saw this in the cinema and yet I don’t think I had seen it again until now with this splendid Blu-ray from Criterion. In the notes there is a suggestion that this wonderful film might be a mixed genre of the western, the film noir, a murder mystery and romance so there may be something in this. Although I have to say that it really has something of a western about it, set on…
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Evil Dead Trap 1988
I first saw this more than twenty years ago and it was only a copy and the subtitles were poor and I hardly knew what was going on but it was very scary. Even with this splendid blu-ray for the very first time in the UK it is still not really clear what is happening, something is going on and it is amazing and still scary. It is unfortunate that it is a bit too long but we are reminded…
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Strip Nude for Your Killer 1975
I didn’t think much of this when I first saw it and don’t think much of it now. It’s terrible really because the girls are great and it looks good most of the time with plenty of sexy kills. The title, salacious though it is, is pretty accurate, but the predictable tale plods along and in the end produces a killer we have not only not seen but did not know existed! Distortion on the soundtrack doesn’t help this one.…
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The Duke of Burgundy 2014
This is a profound and engrossing film. Peter Strickland is clearly less a fan of cinema than a fanatic for film and there is a difference. He believes that film does not depict reality but is a reproduction of reality and therein lies his fascination. He is excited by this process and through his films similarly excites us. In this film, ostensibly about a couple of ladies living out a BDSM relationship in a rambling old mansion, his filmic inspiration…