*contains spoilers When we talk of pansexuality today, it was a term which did not really exist back in the late 1960s when labels were more or less limited in their descriptions of gender and sexuality. It comes as a surprise though that the film The Fox (1967), which was directed by Mark Rydell (1929-)…
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*contains spoilers When you mention the screenplays of David McGillivray (1947-), you must mention in particular the films of director Pete Walker (1939-) in the same breath. And also mention the films of Norman J. Warren (1942-). All three started off in the British sexploitation film business but gravitated for a time into horror movies,…
Read more The Cult of Horror Screenwriter David McGillivray (Part One)
*contains spoilers Lest we forget the Snowtown murders, otherwise known as the bodies in the barrels case which was turned into a South Australian film in 2011. My cousin was a witness at the trial and an uncle who was on the police force said when the cops discovered the barrels in the old Snowtown…
Read more The Demons of Horror Director Ursula Dabrowsky and Others (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Adelaide director Ursula Dabrowsky (no info) has made two modest but vastly entertaining horror movies and they are entitled Family Demons (2009) and Inner Demon (2014). Family Demon is presented in the strangest of narratives – like the crime or crimes in the movie, they too are strange – physically and psychically. And…
Read more The Demons of Horror Director Ursula Dabrowsky and Others (Part One)
*contains spoilers Two rather well-known celebrities of their day “disappeared” for a short time within around six months of each other back in the 1920s, and in the 1970s within a few years of one another a couple of interesting movies resulted about each disappearance. The first is The Disappearance of Aimee (1976 tv movie)…
Read more The Disappearances of Aimee Semple McPherson and Agatha Christie
* contains spoilers Gordon made one of my favourites when he got 50s sci-fi star Richard Carlson (1912-77 cerebral haemorrhage) to do Tormented (1960) for Allied Artists now that he had fulfilled his contract with AIP with four quick fire movies, something which must have left the director exhausted. It is Carlson’s last starring role…
