What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion (1970)

After a single viewing Eugenie has clambered it's way into my top 3 Jess Franco films. Made in collaboration with Harry Allan Towers i was expecting the typical tame, globe trotting affair of which many Towers films are famed for, however Eugenie is something else indeed. Although it doesn't indulge itself in the usual Franco excesses of zooms into genitalia it is rather more risque than any other Towers produced film.

Based on the works of the Marquis de Sade, Eugenie is a sado sexual piece of erotica starring Marie Liljedahl as the young Eugenie, left at the island home of Madame Saint Ange (Maria Rohm) and her deranged stepbrother as played in typically creepy style by the flat haired Jack Taylor, by her father, Franco regular Paul Muller.

Once there Eugenie is seduced by St Ange - The gorgeous Maria Rohm has never been more undressed or kinkier than she is here - and then by Taylor before engaging in a threesome before things really take a turn for the weird as Christopher Lee and a bunch of oddballs enter and watch as the threesome turns into S&M as Eugenie is whipped with a leather strap and what appears to be a mace. The film operates from then on in a semi dream like state with mesmerizing music and Franco toying with red light filters swirling round the viewers head like a hallucinogenic sexual experiment with Liljedahl and Rohm at the centre of it. Happy days!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion (1970)

It's one of my Franco faves too.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Play Motel (1979)






One Million Years B.C. (1966)

[trebor8273]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 7.6/10

better than the first but like that has not aged well, but saved by likable characters and a great British cast. could of been 20-30 minutes shorter.





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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Play Motel (1979)

I still haven't picked up Play Motel, so, go on, sell it to me, or not as the case may be.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Play Motel (1979)






One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Do you have the new Blu of One Million Years?? Mr B.E

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I still haven't picked up Play Motel, so, go on, sell it to me, or not as the case may be.

Think sleazy gialli mixed with euro-crime, Italian sex comedy and softcore porn on a fairly tight budget and you'll be about there in terms of Play Motel. Whilst not exactly great, it's a curio for sure and worth checking out.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Do you have the new Blu of One Million Years?? Mr B.E

I do indeed, and a very nice release it is too.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I do indeed, and a very nice release it is too.

Yeah I know Ms Welch in HI-DEf ...

Touché away!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Windmill (2016)

A tour bus breaks down out in the back woods of Holland whilst looking at rural windmills. Unfortunately for the mixed group of tourists they have broken down next to an old windmill where legend has it the miller used to worship the devil...

Disappointing Euro horror that initially plays like a typical slasher on the lines of Hatchet but then becomes bogged down in a secondary story that everyone on the tour bus is there for a reason and must pay for their sins.

The film, from the makers of 2013's Frankenstein's Army, tries to be different but ties itself in knots with it's secondary ideas whilst forgetting to be a suspenseful slasher movie. The kills and potential victims are too transparent and obvious and only impress due to some creative and gruesome gore.

The film's diverse cast is a bonus as is the character development and the windmill location gives the film a lot of originality, but it never felt cohesive and come the end i felt it could and indeed should have been better given all it had going for it. Having said that i do get the feeling this might play better for me a second time round so i will revisit it at some point.

Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976)

About as far away from Scorsese's Taxi Driver as you can get. Barry Evans plays a London cabbie always on the look out for his next pick up as he ends up bedding various lovely ladies.

Playing almost like a documentary with Evans talking to the camera, i enjoyed this fun romp. Despite it's pitiful score of just 4.0 on the dreaded IMDB i found it entertaining in a Carry On sort of way albeit with lots of nudity. Come to think of it i don't recall a woman being penetrated by a snake in a Carry On film but there you go. Surprisingly the film has a strong guest cast including Diana Dors, Judy Geeson, Robert Lindsay, Brian Wilde and Stephen Lewis who i think was actually playing Blakey his famed On the Buses character.

What did surprise me was the randiness juxtaposed with a kitchen sink, working class hero sort of home life and a snap shot of Soho, portraying 70's Britain as not entirely a riot of tits and arse, but that's what you'll remember the next day - T&A, and very nice they were too.