Watched in 2020

Jô Shishido died a little after I had watched this. RIP.

This might be my favorite lesbian-vampire-film-directed-by-a-man so far. It works surprisingly well and has a few great eerie vampire moments.

Roberta Wallach and "No Mama, I don't hate the world." AHHH.

Incredibly beautiful cinematography, especially the first half of the film. Screencaps don't do it justice.

Quite a bit of nastiness and morbidness but overall quite empty. Berto Pisano's score is a bit cheesy but so beautiful! If you don't believe me, listen to this 'Greta' theme or 'Terrificanti apparizioni'.

Eyvind Earle, heart.
This looks so amazing, the animation and the backgrounds are incredibly beautiful.

Beautiful cinematography and quite striking moments. Overall Jannings is forceful and compelling.

In my book of giallos this gets an OK.

Feverish stuff, with some odd moments like the assertion that lesbians are simply afraid of men. Weaving sex and death together, this film also imposes the destructiveness of male sexuality (and at times the very male being). But in general good: eerie and/or dreamy and sticky mood, beautiful cinematography and yes, interesting female characters. Actually I think I would have been really intrigued by this if I had seen it in my teens.

or The Full Treatment

After the B-movies, giallos and other grimier stuff I've watched recently this felt like a really sweet film, a warm hug and a friendly face, an immersion of feel-good and happy-to-see-you. At times I felt like I wanted to live inside this film. I don't even mind the NASA glorification ("we're all humans here, everybody makes mistakes, they won't mind, they're not all geniuses"). And see, 'Puddy' from Seinfeld is here as well!

A short art tribute to Jean Rollin.

There is no plot, just a beautiful young Lina Romay as a vampire thirsty for either blood (standard version) or other fluids ('erotic' version), moving slowly and solemnly from one victim to another to the sounds of Daniel J. White's lush and pompous yet incredibly beautiful score.

I liked the atmosphere and beautiful exterior shots but overall this is pretty bad. But I think I became a Lina fan right away.





Watched twice, sort of (both versions once)

Yay to female test pilots, air force pilots and female aviators in general, cats, girl power and an attempt at gratifying emancipation. Nay to shallow 90s pastiche, cgi feel of everything and the general emptiness and teflon-like feel of this film.

I don't want to just bash this but let's say, for a start, a big NO to Ed Sheeran, the crappy Beatles covers (that the world is left with in this film's universe), a-relentless-woman-secretly-in-love-with-the-protagonist-working-as-a-saviour plot, a much too long runtime and not enough development of the mysterious blackout.

or Paranoia

Yes, this is practically very low to no-budget stuff with some explicit scenes here and there, and I guess one can see the cheap sleazy things that are to be seen in most of Franco's films but at the same time this is a disturbing, slow and at times hypnotic film and a somewhat uncanny viewing experience that actually took me a while to recover from.

This looks amazing, it's a snowy world of its own, a little like a fairytale. The music is superb.

(rewatch)

There isn't really anything wrong with this so it's hard not to rate it high. Perhaps it's a bit slow and too long, and doesn't really have a tense enough feel to keep you interested, and while there's some good stuff going with the characters they still leave you a bit cold.

RIP Jo Shishido.

After watching this I was surprised to find out that Brel's performance is generally considered amateurish because I thought his portrayal was for the most part unassuming and sympathetic even.

This is waaaay too long and soo boring. It just goes on and on. I had to chop watching this into three sittings. The characters are so annoying. Did baby talking wives really exist back in the day or are they just screen figments? I should just stick to Romy's French films.

There are many versions of this, one with Jean Rollin's zombies and other with added erotic garden scenes not directed by Franco. But what's left is a short atmospheric intrigue that makes heavy use of the beautiful Portuguese nature and the set. Britt Nichols (Carmen Yazalde) as Carmencé is a Franco class act. One of my Franco favorites.

Thank you tumblr for this gif.

This looks quite good and fresh but the plot is little tedious - love triangle and jealousy stuff - and the characters feel ancient, plus one of them is a depressing stalker type who follows and harasses a girl he just met for what feels like two thirds of the film. They come in pairs, a good guy and a bad guy, a saintly woman and a little unstable, rejected woman (though to be fair it's not made clear just how unsaintly she is).

Surprisingly easy, looks nice (except for Lina Romay's 80s hair which made her look older than she was). The trance-like stuff worked at times but I was left wanting more of the whole mystery thing.





(watched twice)

I don't know what to say about this. Parts of it made me furious, some parts felt gentle, and I did chuckle once. All in all I think Sharon Tate got treated very poorly (how about that Wrecking Crew scene in the cinema?). All of Leo's supposedly 50s and 60s TV and film stuff looked like the 2010s.

The murders are pretty much played for laughs and watching those scenes was not at all a cathartic experience and subversive in my opinion. Actually it made me raging mad to see this supposedly dead drunk and high stuntman fight off these deranged and goofy hippie kids in a slapstick manner when in reality the murders were so brutal. So it and this film in general didn't really work for me although the ending was sweet, I guess.

A mishmash of an English version and a Spanish/French version of the film perhaps. Sleazy music and nightclub lights, hippies and half-assed spy stuff. Actually the female spies part drifts away pretty quickly and the strippers part takes over.



Lina Romay reminded me a bit of Dr. Frank N Furter and Iva Janžurová in Morgiana. Or, you know, not at all.

Doesn't this doll look sort of familiar?

Wasn't this in the beginning about two friends but in the end mostly about normal relationship stuff without further references to mentioned friendship? I wanted to see a closure on the friendship thing. Maybe I'm not up for this sort of storytelling.

"It's in the trees! It's coming!"

Everybody disses this, so I want to give it three stars.

A cat-friendly documentary on Istanbul's street cats and people who care for them.