Tag Archives: Western
El Topo (1970)
“You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother’s picture.” A gunslinger clad from head to toe in black, carrying a black umbrella, gives his naked young son a teddy bear and a … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Leone, Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 70's, dwarf, Jodorowsky, Madness, Mexico, Midnight Movie, Surreal, Western, Zen
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The Devil’s Rain (1975)
If cinema is to be believed, there was a period from about 1968 (and Rosemary’s Baby) through 1981 (and Omen III: The Final Conflict) in which Satan’s minions rose in throngs throughout the world, and we were ever on the … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Caligari
Tagged 70's, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, horror, Ida Lupino, John Travolta, Satanism, The Devil, Tom Skerritt, Western, William Shatner
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Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962)
Perhaps Russ Meyer’s The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) wouldn’t automatically spring to mind when considering the most influential and important films of the 1950’s, but it reserves a certain special place in cinematic history for one simple reason: it elevated … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Leone, Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 60's, cheesecake, Comedy, Russ Meyer, sexploitation, slapstick, Western
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