Monthly Archives: December 2020

The White Reindeer (1952)

Posted on December 19, 2020 at 7:37 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Deep in the Arctic wilderness of Lapland, the young Sámi woman Pirita (Mirjami Kuosmanen), newly married to the kind but intimately remote reindeer herder Aslak (Kalervo Nissilä), takes drastic measures to relieve her sexual frustration. During one of her husband’s … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: The Naked Zoo (1970)/Mako: Jaws of Death (1976)

Posted on December 4, 2020 at 10:50 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The third disc in Arrow Video’s He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection matches a reconstructed director’s cut of Grefé’s druggy, campy melodrama The Naked Zoo (1970) with one of his best known grindhouse efforts, the sharksploitation feature Mako: … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: The Hooked Generation (1968)/The Psychedelic Priest (1971)

Posted on December 1, 2020 at 5:06 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The second disc in Arrow Video’s box set He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection switches focus from pulpy horror to the briefly thriving genre of hippiesploitation. (The first disc, containing Sting of Death and Death Curse of … Continue reading →

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