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FIRST REFORMED — SHOCKTOBER!

Agitprop, BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, Magical Realism, Political Thriller, Politics, Psychological Thriller, Religion, Romantic Fantasy, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, , Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 29, 2023

As Thomas Wolf pointed out in his essay, Christ’s primary teaching was that “loneliness could be destroyed forever by the…

BAD TIMING: A SENSUAL OBSESSION — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, British Cinema, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, Podcast, Psychological Thriller, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!

October 23, 2023

Brooklyn artist Valleire Trachsler came on the show to talk about one of Isabelle Huppert’s favorite films included in the…

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Black Comedy, Capsules Blog, Cult Film, Dutch Cinema, Horror, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, , THREE STARS, Transgressive Cinema

October 20, 2023

Will this movie give nightmares to more than a few of the audiences who manage to last through it? You…

THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER — SHOCKTOBER!

Agitprop, BDSM, Black Comedy, British Cinema, British Gangster, Capsules Blog, Corporate Corruption, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, Political Satire, SHOCKTOBER!, , Video Essay, Women's Cinema

October 19, 2023

“The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” is a masterpiece of British cinema built on several hundred years…

BLACK SWAN — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 17, 2023

Darren Aronofsky’s voyeuristic psychological thriller about a prima ballerina’s descent into madness employs the same subjective dancer’s-point-of-view that gave “The…

HIGH ANXIETY — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Comedy, FIVE STARS, SHOCKTOBER!, Spoof, Video Essay, Women's Cinema

October 15, 2023

Dedicated to “the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock,” “Mel Brooks’s “High Anxiety” (1977) arrived as a polished comedy behind Brooks’s…

CALIGULA — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 12, 2023

However distracting the film’s titillating use of nudity, and outrageous set pieces of sexual conflagrations, “Caligula” remains true to the…

NEKROMANTIK 2 — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, Exploitation, FOUR STARS, German Cinema, Horror, Magical Realism, New German Cinema, Political Satire, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, , Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 12, 2023

In the brainwash of modern ideologies it seems apropos that Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his banned 1987 horror film “Nekromantik”…

THE NEON DEMON — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 12, 2023

All high-contrast shiny surfaces and fetishized sensual fantasy, Nicholas Winding Refn’s ultra slick Neon Demon isn’t the redemption he was…

A SERBIAN FILM — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 11, 2023

There are no degrees of separation from a communal psychosis that affects every citizen. By putting the narrative in a…

THE DEVILS — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 11, 2023

Few audiences have seen Ken Russell’s highly stylized depiction of the 17th-century destruction of the autonomous fortressed city of Loudun…

ILSA: SHE WOLF OF THE SS — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 10, 2023

Don Edmonds’s 1975 classic “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS” is one of the most outrageous additions to the sexploitation…

CRASH — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 10, 2023

In episode #21 Mike and I talk dirty about David Cronenberg’s CRASH while drinking the currently unavailable ANTI-HERO from REVOLUTION…

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Black Comedy, Capsules Blog, Cult Film, Horror, Politics, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, , THREE STARS

October 7, 2023

High concept meets sustained graphic horror in Tom Six’s satirically challenged thriller that succeeds if only by the realistic treatment…

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, British Cinema, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Comedy, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, LGBTQ, Musical, Play Adaptation, Punk, Queer Cinema, Rock Opera, Sci-Fi, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 4, 2023

“Smells like fish, tastes like chicken, hold your nose and keep on lickin’.” Cole Smithey.

REPULSION — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, Psychological Thriller, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 4, 2023

Canny camera work further reveals the warped psychological state of our troubled anti-heroine. A quicksilver study in a descent into insanity,…

ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN — SHOCKTOBER!

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October 1, 2023

Commonly referred to as “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein” (what on Earth could be better?), Paul Morrissey directed “Flesh for Frankenstein” with…

THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS — SHOCKTOBER!

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July 22, 2023

Paul Schrader’s criminally overlooked adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 1981 novel is breathtaking. Cole Smithey.

THE INNOCENTS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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March 12, 2022

Truman Capote’s script contributions to adapting Henry James’s “The Turn Of The Screw” appear to have fleshed out the novella’s…

BENEDETTA — CANNES 2021

BDSM, Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Erotic, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Magic Realism, Religion, Satire, sex, Women's Cinema

March 5, 2022

Daring, and bristling with bold artistic license, this social satire burns at the stake. Cole Smithey.

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BAD TIMING: A SENSUAL OBSESSION — SHOCKTOBER!

BLACK SWAN — SHOCKTOBER!

HIGH ANXIETY — SHOCKTOBER!

THE NEON DEMON — SHOCKTOBER!

A SERBIAN FILM — SHOCKTOBER!

THE DEVILS — SHOCKTOBER!

ILSA: SHE WOLF OF THE SS — SHOCKTOBER!

CRASH — SHOCKTOBER!

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW — SHOCKTOBER!

REPULSION — SHOCKTOBER!

ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN — SHOCKTOBER!

THE INNOCENTS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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