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Peeping Tom, A Serbian Film and the movable nature of cinema taboos.

Posted 11-22-2010 at 01:57 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 11-22-2010 at 03:05 PM by Sam@Cult Labs



Right thinking film fans and home video collectors will doubtless by excited by the upcoming Blu-Ray edition of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, one of the most beloved films ever to destroy a career and cause a moral panic.

Moral Panics of the kind that engulfed Powell and his...
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Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide

Posted 11-02-2010 at 04:47 PM by Sam@Cult Labs

VIDEO NASTIES
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE



At last, finally, about time...






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PROLOGUE

I'm sure many Cult Labs members were first hipped to the world of Eurotrash Horror, sleazy US slashers and other underground movie weirdness when the Thatcher government of the 1980s decided that, in the absence of a better bogeyman to blame societies...
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A Smack Down on Dope Street

Posted 06-23-2010 at 08:22 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 07-13-2010 at 12:24 AM by Sam@Cult Labs


PEDROMONKEY

Year: 1972

AKA: Lucky Girls Die First / Dead Inside / Shoot Up at the Shooting Gallery

Tagline: "They raped her Sister. They killed her Parents. They Left Her to Die"


1972's A Smack Down on Dope Street represented a new low in the seamy world of the Grindhouse quickie as Hal Manciano stepped surefootedly over the line of acceptable taste,...
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Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me

Posted 06-20-2010 at 07:22 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 09-07-2011 at 12:11 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

Year: 1959

AKA: The Bongo Murders / Beatnik Blast-Off

Tagline: "Squares, Straights and Cops need not apply!"

Hal Manciano had the accendent Beatnik culture firmily in his sights when he churned out Jazz-Poetry, Black Coffee and Murder quickie 'Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me". A grimy story of Reefer, Scat Jazz, Rollnecks and Rumbles, the film proved a big draw in small town Drive-ins, where the flipped out, crazy sounds of the Bongo and the existential Beat-Poetry...
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F**K - A Musical

Posted 06-20-2010 at 03:08 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 06-23-2010 at 09:28 PM by Sam@Cult Labs


PEDROMONKEY


Year: 1971

AKA: The Sex Beat of '71 / Rick Hammer Rides Again

Tagline: "Banned in Every State But New Mexico!"


At the height of Porno-Chic, when uptown couples got down with the Grindhouse crowd and watching full strength Hardcore sex in a public cinema became briefly fashionable, Hal Manciano produced what some critics call his...
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