Bitter Cinema

Voyage to the End of the Universe

A promo still of the AIP butchered version of the Czech Ikarie XB1.

I remember the dubbed version from Saturday afternoon TV.  I also remember Phillip Strick’s glowing review in Science Fiction Movies (one of my seminal texts, as it were), and likening the faces of the film to Kelly Freas artwork. Then I saw the original Czech version on the big screen and really liked it. Serious SF films of this vintage are certainly rare, although not as much as in the old Warsaw Pact.

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DVD Savant

Teleport City

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Silvia Pasquel in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida

The daughter of Silvia Pinal and now an icon of Mexican television, but never lovelier than her turn as Juno in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida (1969).

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Hanyo

From Kim Ki-Young’s Hanyo (The Housemaid). More on this brilliant Korean psychodrama soon… See the feature in its entirety FREE at The Auteurs.

Fantastic Science Fiction Thriller!

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Batman Victorious

A simple frame grab…

Naked England

Now, for something completely mondo…  “Legalized Drugging… The Strippers Moral Tutor… nude psychotherapy… Trepanation… Masochist’s Delight… Nazi Restaurant… Women’s Wreastling…” Only in England, backed by the cool jerk sounds of  Piero Piccioni, some tunes seemingly borrowed from Fumo di Londra (great soundtrack!).

For the curious, some excerpts can be found on YouTube: here, here, here, and here (in beautiful Italian).

The Naked Bunyip

From Wikipedia: The bunyip (usually translated as “devil” or “spirit”) is a mythical creature from Australian folklore.

Just based on the trailer, it looks like an Australian version of a mondo pseudo-documentary, but it’s often heralded as the first splash of the new wave of Australian cinema in the 1970s.

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The Genesis of The Naked Bunyip (Senses of Cinema)

The Naked Bunyap’s censorship history (from Refused Classification, a guide to censorship in Australia)

Naked…. You Die

Nude… si muore in Italy, The Young, the Evil & the Savage in the American fleapit and drive-in circuit. Cool tune “Nightmare”. Seems to live more in the shaggy days of 1964 rather than the hairy tumult 1968 when it was actually released.

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Eccentric Cinema

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Slant

Mad Dogs from Hell!

The Naked Angels

More unabashed nakedness!

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