GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY - I'm not an expert on 'Nazisploitation' films, but I've seen a few. Most of them are pretty lame, despite the absolute cynicism of the sub-genre. 'Ilsa' still remains pretty cool - there's a weird hysteria about it - but most of this shit is quite dull and grating IMO. GLO is maybe a semi-exception to this rule, with a lack of tedious WW2 padding and a free flowing supply of fairly bleak depravity. It's the cold, sad details that get you, like the pants made from a human scalp and a bunch of Nazis bragging about the fact they're eating a baby.
DEVIL FETUS - A HK take on the era of US special effects based horror from 1983. It features demon shagging, pleasingly bad gore effects and a dog who tries to get a bit of upskirt action at a disco. Unfortunately, it also features the (real, I assume) mutilation of said dog's carcass and the absolutely abysmal onscreen killing of an eagle, so I can't condone or recommend in any easy sense, but, hey, I have copy and I made the decision to watch. Apart from the saddening animal murder aspects, I dug this lunatic melange of various semi-digested and regurgitated horror hits like 'The Evil Dead' and 'Poltergeist', fragments of which are thrown about for cheap spectacle then tossed in a pot with bits of folklore. Fave scene involved a bout of worm vomiting at the inane but insane disco frequented by aforementioned sleazy hound.
FASCINATION - From Jean Rollin. I'm a fan, and I usually find the atmosphere of his films utterly enveloping, regardless of how little happens, and, for that matter, regardless of how often twin vampire chicks get nekkid and get it on. This isn't my favourite of his, but it has that mystifying and entrancing atmosphere in abundance. A thief hides out from the buddies he double crossed in a gothic chateau, where ... well, the plot isn't important, Rollin's films aren't about that, they're about images - Brigitte Lahaie doing a grim reaper number, close ups of mouths relishing blood, a long, slow pan across a row of ravening faces.
SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE - A second viewing. I didn't quite take to it as much as I did on first viewing, but still I liked its genre sidestepping mix of feel good, relationships based comedy drama and slasher movie, especially because of the obvious ingenuity involved in getting such a ludicrous hybrid to work. Kevin Corrigan is stranded in, and desperately humiliated by, the small town he grew up in, and he's oppressed by just about everyone from the jocks he went to school with to his hate-filled mother (great turn from Karen Black). Fate smiles when he gets chance to reunite with his long lost daughter - but hang on, isn't he a vengeful serial killer? Well, I might know jack about what really makes 'good' or 'bad' cinema, but SGWKP is charmingly quirky, is well made and, whilst it didn't set me on fire, is definitely worth a look for those who haven't seen it.
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