Mark Lewis is a focus puller at a film studio who tops up his wages taking glamour photographs in a room above a newsagent. By night he films women as he kills them, chasing a look of pure fear. The habit comes from a childhood spent as his scientist father’s subject. Downstairs live Helen and …
Continue reading Shocking Cinema- Day 12- Peeping Tom (1960)
This 1965 Roman Polanski film centres on the character of Carol, a beautiful woman who works at a beauty parlour whilst living with her sister Helen in South Kensington, London. She's very childlike and seems to be not only sexually repressed but actually repulsed by men. Matters aren’t helped by a persistent young man called …
The ancient practice of witchcraft in Swinging 60s New York. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into the gothic apartment building known as The Bramford. Guy is an actor who doesn’t seem to be getting the big breaks he deserves. That is, until he meets the eccentric couple Minnie and Roman next door, and suddenly his …
Continue reading Shocking Cinema- Day 2- Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
A mysterious radiation thought to have been brought back to Earth after a space probe to Venus, is bringing the dead back to life to feast on the living. A young woman named Barbara is visiting her dead father’s grave with her brother Johnny when… This film has so much of a great reputation amongst …
Continue reading George A Romero Reviewed- Day 1- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
‘The Bombshell’ is making her way through Baltimore when she is confronted by a hippie with his own special proclivities (if you know, you know), who takes her to a wooded area so that he can… After this moment of ecstasy (in which she daydreams about herself as Cinderella), she is mown down by Divine …
Continue reading John Waters Reviewed- Day 1- Mondo Trasho (1969)
From IMDB- ‘Dr Nookey, disgraced, is sent to a remote island hospital. Staff member Gladstone Screwer gives him a secret slimming potion. Nookey flies to England for fame and fortune. Others try to cash in or bring him down.’ As you can probably tell from the plot outline, there are some cracking character names in …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 18- Carry On Again Doctor (1969)
An eclectic bunch of wayfarers arrive at a campsite in Devon run by the moneygrabbing Mr Fiddler. Later, when a hippie music festival takes place in the field next to the camp, the campers must team together to remedy the problem. Carry On Camping is the series entry that I'm sure was the first Carry …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 17- Carry On Camping (1969)
The Carry On team parody the British Raj in this film with the kilt-wearing Brits (Third Foot and Mouth regiment) led by Sidney Ruff-Diamond (Sid James) and his hilariously coarse wife (Joan Sims) and the Raj led by the Khasi of Kalabar (Kenneth Williams) and his trusty henchman Bungdit Din (Bernard Bresslaw). Alas, there are …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 16- Carry On Up The Khyber (1968)
Another hospital based Carry On film follows the plights of various patients, nurses and even the hospital porters who work there. Carry On Doctor is one of the series entries that most people know of and are most fond of. It’s also iconic as this film gave birth to the Kenneth Williams’ catchphrase of ‘Matron!’, …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 15- Carry On Doctor (1967)
This Beau Geste parody concerns ‘a young English aristocrat who, unjustly disgraced by accusations of cheating, joins the Foreign Legion and comes across a Bilko-like sergeant with a fort full of nervous legionnaires. With trouble brewing, the new recruit is forced to show his mettle and, hopefully, win back the heart of his lover.’ This …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 14- Follow That Camel (1967)
