JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into Universal stardom for THE BREAKFAST CLUB, by 1989, Judd Nelson was back in the little leagues...</p><p>Getting first-billed in exploitation drive-in maestro William Lustig's RELENTLESS, a kind of revamp of WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS involving Nelson as a man-child serial killer, motivated by the media's goading perception of his ultra-violent actions based on lonely loser motivations... <br></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

angel tompkins, body count, cop, eddie bunker, eighties, frank pesce, judd nelson, leo rossi, meg foster, neo noir, robert loggia, william lustig

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into...

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/05/judd-nelson-MTG.html">MAKING THE GRADE,</a> Judd Nelson played the biggest post-collegiate geek ever for Kevin Costner's indie breakthrough F<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/07/fandango.html">ANDANGO</a>... before ironically poking fun at high school geek Anthony Michael Hall in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB...<br><br>As Nelson's criminal character John Bender isn't anything like the typical BLACKBOARD JUNGLE teen rebel... his <i>cause</i> is basically being a demonic Phil Donahue within an 8-hour Saturday detention, also goading pretty popular Molly Ringwald, handsome jock Emilio Estevez, and neurotic pre-goth Ally Sheedy into eventually seeking their true feelings about topics ranging from homelife parentals to high school popularity...</p><p><span></span></p>

ally sheedy, brat pack, comedy, eighties, emilio estevez, john hughes, judd nelson, molly ringwald, paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2 In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper MAKING THE GRADE, Jud...

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1644/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each other to depend on<span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB just as CLUB has graduated past SIXTEEN CANDLES (only this has nothing to do with John Hughes, amazingly enough)...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div>

ally sheedy, andie macdowell, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, emilio estevez, joel schumaker, judd nelson, mare winningham, melodrama, romance

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2 A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the...

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/bclub.html">THE BREAKFAST CLUB</a> made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br> <br> That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

andrew dice clay, cannon, comedy, dana olsen, eighties, gordon jump, jonna lee, judd nelson, ronald lacey, teen, walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting s...

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s2282/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none other than Steven Spielberg, who'd later hire him to enhance the story about a group of early-1970's Vietnam War-era college students, one a coward forced to prove his worth by parachuting in a rural Texas stopover where the instructor's a burnout hippie, played by scene-stealing Marvin J. McIntyre...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who's the only actor returning for the feature-length version FANDANGO starring newcomer Kevin Costner (in the kind of zesty youthfulness liken to SILVERADO) as the best looking and most confident instigating leader while Judd Nelson... the same year he'd portray an extremely cool high-school student in THE BREAKFAST CLUB... proves his versatility here as the complete opposite...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

Year: 1985 Rating: **** Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none ...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1162/image1788044637.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1600/image1788044637.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City, now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br> <br> Seeking clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced. She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar fight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a d...

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre to the glorious 1970's, when ROOTS and RICH MAN POOR MAN cast mostly actors and actresses from nearly every former famous television series that still haunted the syndicated airwaves...<br><br>It was usually the character-actors, while IT has the leading players as familiar faces: like a broodingly dramatic John Ritter, who was the hilariously clumsy Jack Tripper on THREE'S COMPANY... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

annette o'toole, harry anderson, horror, john ritter, jonathan brandis, laura harris, miniseries, olivia hussey, richard masur, richard thomas, seth green, stephen king, tim curry, tommy lee wallace

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: **** The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre t...

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1400/image1787817043.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1600/image1787817043.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a working girl's take on Paul McCartney's alarm-clock section of John Lennon's Beatles opus <i>A Day In The Life</i>), it could have easily seemed like novelty casting, having the blonde bombshell — equally known for her large bosom as her music — in the role as the sexy personal secretary of the most evil of evil movie bosses...<br><br>But she's an absolute natural/scene-stealer alongside professionally-trained actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin... and the literally hands-on employer Dabney Coleman, who for decades, without that sinister mustache, blended into the background of episodic television and b-movies... <br></p><span></span>

dabney coleman, dolly parton, eighties, henry jones, jane fonda, lawrence pressman, lily tomlin, renn woods, roxanna bonilla-giannini, sterling hayden

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: *** Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a workin...

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1842/111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1600/111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/12/mechanics.html">THE MECHANIC</a>, veteran hit-man Charles Bronson is targeted by his own young assassin student Jan-Michael Vincent... <br><br>And a year later, in Winner's espionage-thriller SCORPIO, this same exact ironical setup is already happening (has already happened), right when the movie begins...</p>

action, alain delon, espionage, gayle hunnicutt, james b. sikking, jerry fielding, joanne linville, john colicos, mary maude, michael winner, neo noir, paul scofield, seventies, thriller, william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller THE MECHANIC , veteran hit-man Char...

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1264/image1787470466.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1600/image1787470466.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to say that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/DRIVER.html">Walter Hill's THE DRIVER</a>, which is basically a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ, is superior... but Walter's Hill's THE DRIVER is superior to Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ... and vastly so...<br><br>Although looking terrifically cool around sparse settings and harboring an overall slow-burn cadence, Alain Delon's hit-man Jef Costello makes Ryan O'Neal's deliberately sluggish getaway driver seem like the rambling, semi-crooked, stubbornly determined token cop Bruce Dern, who almost single-handedly makes the Hill movie better than it would've been otherwise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, catherine jourdan, cathy rosier, cop, french, hit man, jean-pierre melville, nathalie delon, neo noir, sixties

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to...

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1360/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars three famous foreign actors, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin, but each character takes up their own part of the three acts...<br><br>Starting out with one of the coolest jailbreaks... actually from a prison bus carrying Delon's career-criminal, given tools to cut a box-shape on the bus's floor, neatly timed against the guard and providing a genuinely nail-biting sequence... soon followed by another breakout: from a hotel window the morning after a hooker hookup... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, danielle volle, french, heist, irina demick, italian, jean gabin, lino ventura, neo noir, sixties, sydney chaplin

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: *** The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars th...

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/s2112/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2112" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddies who'd spent years in the Foreign Legion without knowing each other, but they get off the same boat with a load of expository dialogue that you best keep a scorecard to follow the shoddy pulp-inspired plot as, basically and ultimately, this odd couple... one a French medic, the other a crooked American... attempt to crack a big safe in a large, well-armed, multi-guarded building... And why the title's nonsensical is that Bronson's pimp character says things for no apparent reason, especially "Yeah!" whenever something happens that makes him feel like saying... "Yeah!" </p><p></p><p>But Alain Delon is the tough silent type, and this film's obvious lead, actually having hand-picked Bronson from admiring his zesty performance as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/early-chuck.html">MACHINE GUN KELLY</a> eight-years earlier... What's ironic is Delon keeps Bronson from reaching equally ferocious heights by either a punch in the nose or a macho wrestling match, especially in a painfully overlong sequence where, during that epic second-act heist, both get locked inside a strongroom, close to death, followed by Bronson being beaten/interrogated and Delon beating-up the film's nice girl Brigitte Fossey while having initially fallen sap to sneaky double-crossing femme fatalle Olga Georges-Picot... Perhaps if FAREWELL, FRIEND was a dark comedy, and didn't take itself so seriously, it'd have a more even-keeled groove... And get this... Bronson <i>wouldn't </i>be the straight man!</p><span></span>

alain delon, brigitte fossey, buddy, charles bronson, crime, exploitation, french, heist, mob, olga georges-picot, seventies

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: *** The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddi...

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1902/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it's obvious the entire script was based around — find the place first and write the script later... </p><p></p><p>Which has never been as impressive as the otherwise mostly unimpressive Gothic horror THE RED MONKS, where two generations of dark-haired men inherit a castle where the interior is an almost endless maze of Medieval corridors... </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, eighties, gothic, horror, italian, lara wendel, malisa longo

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it...

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1300/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST clone RING OF DARKNESS has techno-wizard Stelvio Cipriani making Mike Oldfield's <i>Tubular Bells</i> (or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme) sounding like music blasting from a discotheque nightclub... <br><br>Leading to Satan-worshiping mom Anne Heywood already in the frustrated process of dealing with her very evil child... as if RING OF DARKNESS (aka SATAN'S WIFE) were more of its own sequel than a classic horror film money-grab homage... perfectly suited for controversial child starlet Lara Wendel in that she actually resembles Linda Blair...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne heywood, horror, irene papas, italian, john phillip law, lara wendel, marisa mell, seventies, stelvio cipriani, valentina cortese

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: *** The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST ...

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1328/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith in the giallo horror THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK, and when German-born/Italian-cinema scream-queen Lisa Wendel was a pretty preteen, she appeared in two extremely controversial exploitation films... <br><br>The first, PLAYING WITH LOVE, was almost instantly banned worldwide, and LITTLE GIRL IN BLUE VELVET was another take on Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA (including Wendel getting her toenails painted by a middle-aged man)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, italian, klaus löwitsch, lara wendel, neo noir, orso maria guerrini, stefania sandrelli, vittorio mezzogiorno

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith ...

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, had he watched ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS for over thirty-minutes, "You DO plan to have zombies in your zombie movie?" <br><br>But right at the <i>King Kong Mark</i> of exactly 45-minutes, a sinewy menace finally appears within one of two central-interior manors, where the usual group of young victims are unwisely camped out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, exploitation, haunted house, horror, italian, joe d'amato, lara wendel, robert vaughn, slasher, zombie

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, h...

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1400/image1786921192.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1600/image1786921192.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostly version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/mimsy%20farmer">Mimsy Farmer</a> in giallo Italian director Francesco Barilli's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/perfume.html">THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK</a>, wielding a knife and creepy to the hilt... <br><br>Over a decade later, as a cute teenager, she's one of several slain ingenues in Dario Argento's body count classic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/10ebrae.html">TENEBRAE</a>... eventually leading to a starring role in Umberto Lenzi's GHOSTHOUSE, ironically running into another creepy little demonic child with a deadly weapon of her own...  <br></p><span></span>

body count, eighties, haunted house, horror, italian, lara wendel, slasher, thriller

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2 At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostl...

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970's to the less intense genre vehicles of the latter 1980's like PHENOMENA, Italian auteur Dario Argento made his best and by far most conventional slasher in TENEBRAE... <br><br>Using the familiar plot of a horror writer who, in this case, has a desperately faithful fan killing vulnerable women, leaving behind pages of the titular (his latest) novel... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony franciosa, daria nicolodi, dario argento, horror, italian, john saxon, john steiner, lara wendel, mirella d'angelo, mystery, neo noir, seventies, slasher, veronica lario

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: **** Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970...

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...

MIMSY FARMER AND LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'CODE NAME: WILD GEESE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj_BTIyvouzHqyDe6MQ1WuXM7GiKL5_7ibj13zoCUMrftSde0ZrrjKhJHPAz64ux2XO72fATIRY93lUtnCr2M5IQwwCAblN1emyjpzlEL_I5U1diCYsQLkxIdhQQDHA47kI29jtiMQ32lg1pzOu5kPst2OsINaZnCBHF1Bn8NDt7vD-EqI2-jTD3JPQlw/s1375/image1786607560.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj_BTIyvouzHqyDe6MQ1WuXM7GiKL5_7ibj13zoCUMrftSde0ZrrjKhJHPAz64ux2XO72fATIRY93lUtnCr2M5IQwwCAblN1emyjpzlEL_I5U1diCYsQLkxIdhQQDHA47kI29jtiMQ32lg1pzOu5kPst2OsINaZnCBHF1Bn8NDt7vD-EqI2-jTD3JPQlw/s1600/image1786607560.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in Code Name: Wild Geese (Geheimcode Wildgänse) Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a pivotal sequence in Antonio Margheriti's CODE NAME: WILD GEESE where a group of mercenaries... including British tough guy Lewis Collins, German tough guy Manfred Lehmann and Spaghetti Western legend Lee Van Cleef... are inside of a helicopter, and pilot Van Cleef says it will take a few minutes for the copter to lift...<br><br>Occurring after having already taken over an outpost, and, while waiting to take off, there's no impending enemy gunfire... making WILD GEESE the kind of Italian war-flick with tons of flying bullets but very little urgency or suspense... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, antonio margheriti, eighties, ernest borgnine, klaus kinski, lee van cleef, lewis collins, mimsy farmer, war

MIMSY FARMER AND LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'CODE NAME: WILD GEESE'

Mimsy Farmer in Code Name: Wild Geese (Geheimcode Wildgänse) Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 There's a pivotal sequence in Antonio Margheriti...

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s2164/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is obviously inspired by Victor Hugo's LES MISÉRABLES, but for a 1970's crime fan it will be most reminiscent of the late-seventies STRAIGHT TIME starring Dustin Hoffman... <br><br>Based on a 1973 novel NO BEAST SO FIERCE (same year as this feature) by Edward Bunker, particularly the second-act plot-line involving a badgering police inspector, who had originally arrested bank robber Alain Delon for the ten years that social worker Jean Gabin gets him out early from in the film's semi-optimistic prelude...</p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, crime, french, gérard depardieu, ilaria ccchini, jean gabin, josé giovanni, malka ribowska, michel bouquet, mimsy farmer, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is...

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1390/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1600/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror-genre with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, he directed the mainstream CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79, a slight-of-hand effort deliberately mirroring THE CONCORD: AIRPORT '79, the last AIRPORT outing before the blockbuster spoof AIRPLANE killed the franchise by spoofing it... <br><br>Both are basically crime-thrillers combining the usual airline disaster melodrama... but Deodato's Italian import spends the entire first two acts hardly involving the record-breaking passenger-jet-plane: other than an opening scene where it crashes into the ocean...</p><p><span></span></p>

airplane, disaster, edmund purdom, espionage, james francsiscus, joseph cotten, maria d'incoronato, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, seventies, thriller, van johnson, venantino venantini

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage h...

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror sub-genre that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT reinvented decades later, so it's no real sin that he ripped off American slasher franchise FRIDAY THE 13TH: which already had about six films by 1988...<br><br>Both involving teenagers who get picked off in the woods by a masked menace... the supposed spirit of an Indian Shaman from long ago... making this a genuine BODY COUNT horror, built right into the title...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, body count, charles narpier, david hess, eighties, horror, john steiner, luisa maneri, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, slasher

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: *** With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-...

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer plays a vulnerable young ladies attacked/sexually-assaulted by a group of drugged-up men in both <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a> and DEVIL'S ANGELS... <br><br>Only here, based on the Hell's Angels court-case documented in Hunter Thompson's novel, the titular DEVIL'S ANGELS only brutally attack the poor girl, not actually raping her (or having enough time to since she gets away)... and this movie wants that gross distinction to be completely clear...</p><p><span></span></p>

beverly adams, biker, counter-culture, exploitation, john cassavetes, leo gordon, mimsy farmer, roger corman, sixties

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde ...

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1455/image1786179090.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1600/image1786179090.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-rock instrumental backs a beautiful American blonde, driving through rural Mexico, for the conclusion of her revenge-epic mission... <br><br>As both the song and situation were lifted from French auteur Georges Lautner's Spanish-shot/set 1970 giallo/noir THE ROAD TO SALINA when a gorgeous car-driving American blonde is instead <i>just arriving</i>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

ed begley, georges lautner, mimsy farmer, neo noir, rita hayworth, robert walker jr., sophie hardy, spanish, thriller

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2 At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-roc...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS IN HELL</a> more effectively than the good girl in the following years' counter-culture melodrama <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/04/hot-rods-to-sunset-strip.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>, returning with young HELL co-stars Laurie Mock and Gene Kirkwood...<br><br>But instead of the open road, SUNSET is mostly at a nightclub in the titular Los Angeles STRIP where there's not much going save a few protests that includes fist fights liken to Western genre saloon brawls (while local bands The Chocolate Watchband, The Standells and The Enemys provide sporadic tunes)...</p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, counter culture, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in HOT RODS IN HELL ...

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1310/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and meets breezy American blonde Mimsy Farmer, and the only (and best) Pink Floyd song that's unfortunately <i>not</i> on the soundtrack album MORE is blaring throughout the noisy partying background, he's already sealed his fate... and yet she's not much prettier than the other couch-kicking, pot-smoking hippie-chick harlots...<br><br>But the Jean Seberg-haired Farmer (who started out in American drive-in flicks before becoming a European counter-culture star) always had a unique way of becoming more and more beautiful with an enigmatically intriguing, quietly brooding, mesmerizing persona: making director Barbet Schroeder's MORE more of an exotically European art-house celebration of that particularly alluring female than what's really the central male character's descent into petty crime and heavy drug addiction...</p><p><span></span></p>

barbet schroeder, counter-culture, heinz engelmann, klaus grünberg, michel chanderli, mimsy farmer, pink floyd, sixties

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and m...

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1338/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet HOT RODS TO HELL only <i>begins</i> as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...</p><span></span>

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes,...