Monthly Archive: May 2020
Dennis Dermody
May 26, 2020
Streaming
While surfing Amazon Prime the other night I came on an Italian thriller I have been hunting for that never surfaced on home video in America. It was The Killer Reserved Nine Seats, a 1974 film directed by Giuseppe Bennati…
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Dennis Dermody
May 19, 2020
Personal
One of the most startling things I heard during this endless pandemic was the statement, “I’m even sick of porn!” I can sympathize- to a point. I’m not about to give a thesis on porn or weigh the social and…
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Dennis Dermody
May 12, 2020
Blu-Rays
I am so overjoyed that I soon will own a Blu-ray box set of the films of one of my favorite Exploitation auteurs- Al Adamson. Not to mention new Blu-ray restorations of other favorites like the fantastic “giallo” The Strange…
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Dennis Dermody
May 8, 2020
Cult
When Roger Corman‘s biker movie The Wild Angels was unleashed in theaters 1966 it made a killing at the box office, made a star out of Peter Fonda and spawned scores of similar exploitation movies. But I remember at the time…
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Dennis Dermody
May 4, 2020
Movies
Despite the outrageous premise, writer/director & star Tyler Cornack’s film plays it (sort of) straight, which makes for an unforgettable, jaw-dropping, 99 minutes of celluloid madness. Cornack plays the lead- sad sack Chip Gutchell, an office IT drone in a…
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