MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA 'SINNER: DIARY OF A NYMPHO'

<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/AVvXsEhceUCPhQcxe46TyFbRtsSpI_twql-Z_pWd1pu1vB0c5cxrnTlEQRNyx4LVa1Tvlj0F2lAyIW8cwnI38gizz4EQT_xWsKD91bQE98IRKUFH4BCxHddpulB-qelBu2rzvUAtZC8QCxBPwIoxn21byraLEYQbbVJxFrrrAuT90G1VDeK22W3NmymH8AVMLThy/s2102/11.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceUCPhQcxe46TyFbRtsSpI_twql-Z_pWd1pu1vB0c5cxrnTlEQRNyx4LVa1Tvlj0F2lAyIW8cwnI38gizz4EQT_xWsKD91bQE98IRKUFH4BCxHddpulB-qelBu2rzvUAtZC8QCxBPwIoxn21byraLEYQbbVJxFrrrAuT90G1VDeK22W3NmymH8AVMLThy/s16000/11.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Montserrat Prous in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC Rates: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Spanish horror auteur <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jes%C3%BAs%20franco">Jesús Franco's</a> regular starlets <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/montserrat%20prous">Montserrat Prous</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/kali%20hansa">Kali Hansa</a> were battling for inheritance in his crime/slasher <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/orloff.html">THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF</a>, were stuck on a murderous island in the mystery/thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/02/prou.html">THE SILENCE OF THE TOMB</a>... </p><p>And in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC they pose together sexually (for seductive Anne Libert providing a backstory to Lacqueline Laurent)... but without sharing any deep lesbian kisses and with zero chemistry, it's a complete waste of two of Franco's hottest starlets... a shame since the wide-eyed brunette Prous deserved much better. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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MONTSERRAT PROUS & KALI HANSA 'SINNER: DIARY OF A NYMPHO'

Montserrat Prous in SINNER: THE SECRET DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC Rates: * Spanish horror auteur Jesús Franco's regular starlets Montserra...

ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD'

<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/AVvXsEheMKbmwaXR6VbwWF344OZSKlTQ4p9mjH1C7Qtc3n5W8VEFm9A9tdwkSbOyGnGfS5gv7AkyKMCVXysl5cJGw2D7G3rLaR88oESigeW8gLrDcyAii4GmxEj0PWoognr6gUrqzc6Rd3Fd1JXaLpjvy3M7pi4-Lw9FXyld6ZUQoLvNEuEH6OUzfmhOkzU7hQhr/s1674/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-28%20at%201.00.31%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMKbmwaXR6VbwWF344OZSKlTQ4p9mjH1C7Qtc3n5W8VEFm9A9tdwkSbOyGnGfS5gv7AkyKMCVXysl5cJGw2D7G3rLaR88oESigeW8gLrDcyAii4GmxEj0PWoognr6gUrqzc6Rd3Fd1JXaLpjvy3M7pi4-Lw9FXyld6ZUQoLvNEuEH6OUzfmhOkzU7hQhr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-28%20at%201.00.31%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead/La mansión de los muertos vivientes Year: 1983 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Infamously campy Spanish Exploitation-Horror director Jesús Franco's MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD is really a rural beachfront hotel where four beautiful women... two chunky-hot blondes and two perfect-bodied model brunettes... check into two different rooms, two at a time: each of the blondes kissing their own brunette — until the token first-girl wanders off alone...</p><p></p><p>As Mari Carmen Nieto far too quickly dies after happening upon a nearby monastery, which happens off-screen... providing looser blonde Albino Graziani an anticipated sacrifice/encounter with the titular medieval knight zombies straight from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/blinddead.html">Amando de Ossorio's 1970's BLIND DEAD franchise</a> (here resembling cheap skeleton mannequins created for a last-minute Halloween party)...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD'

Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead/La mansión de los muertos vivientes Year: 1983 Rates: *** Infamously campy Spanish Exploitation-Hor...

SOLEDAD MIRANDA BITING EWA STRÖMBERG IN 'VAMPYROS LESBOS'

<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/AVvXsEhFCgbzq7k9z7_BAhvBENcEE9o7IHW4MTHV5j8BzBjFRfwhPrbjW7yRhLRej_ZTiR8H-zIsv1p49foJsvTRn8KIrgFmq7PoJMD4Xzno-_2HBc_JUVwTgH7jVP2AK8gHaY4QuAKUhSisYMYpQSXT7LGyJYayQOFkd44LtH49Bt_FCLm_nkUCsLXSBRivlZkE/s2682/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-26%20at%2011.40.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="2682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCgbzq7k9z7_BAhvBENcEE9o7IHW4MTHV5j8BzBjFRfwhPrbjW7yRhLRej_ZTiR8H-zIsv1p49foJsvTRn8KIrgFmq7PoJMD4Xzno-_2HBc_JUVwTgH7jVP2AK8gHaY4QuAKUhSisYMYpQSXT7LGyJYayQOFkd44LtH49Bt_FCLm_nkUCsLXSBRivlZkE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-26%20at%2011.40.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Soledad Miranda in VAMPYROS LESBOS Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In what's otherwise infamously campy directing icon Jesús Franco's most creatively/artistic Spanish horror, just the mere casting of perhaps the most beautiful women ever filmed, round-faced brunette Soledad Miranda (who tragically died at 27 one year before release), makes VAMPYROS LESBOS more intriguing than the deliberately basic premise taken straight from both DRACULA and NOSFERATU...<br><br>A pawn in the form of contrasting blonde beauty Ewa Strömberg (in place of solicitor  Jonathan Harker), an insurance agent sent to the Turkish island lair to resolve an inheritance... where she's instantly smitten and bitten by Miranda's Countess Nadine Carody: followed by the usual sickly withdrawals during the human-to-vampire transition... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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SOLEDAD MIRANDA BITING EWA STRÖMBERG IN 'VAMPYROS LESBOS'

Soledad Miranda in VAMPYROS LESBOS Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 In what's otherwise infamously campy directing icon Jesús Franco's most...

MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

<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/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s1740/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx7qdXTKS9vNmf4YJ7OfnZVzTAF5uIS3AaffbdntkcU1pbkZ3u8SOUT98O54exRXDRX29h6SKFwSGRrbZ0AWLwFpjQ19_K77Wr1vAxyMQkR5yOPOUdRWiYzgMEw_vjONFUYLspkj588fbKNijJTK7aL0m-LNP-8vzKQal_EK5mpDZYlAZlJPN3Z27_V98/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker's DRACULA, Sheridan Le Fanu's CARMILA gets adapted into Spanish horror after the British Hammer film <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/vamplovers.html">VAMPIRE LOVERS</a>...<br><br>Only there's no tangible lesbian element other than a dominating female vampire seducing a young and docile, newly-married wife... making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/THTS.html">THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED</a> young-teen actress Maribel Martín (just turned eighteen) the titular BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE...</p><p><span></span></p>

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MARIBEL MARTÍN VAMPING AS 'THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE'

Maribel Martín in THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Based on the Gothic vampire novel, perhaps second only to Bram Stoker...

ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

<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/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s2086/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0_bq7yAzh9XW39mI3TT3RwQXAHNjPHRsiD8VDIENfVCM0Ju3XwmESY4IV5sJnl8tEXCoIKYOu5G4R66AYxC1ArJvjQFdqXR-XtM0djdAC_bDIGG-08_XUXo8Iv12zBVnWkBbtQICSyV5lbxS_Rf6915pt5tw6DBt2XOs88jWWOj1ZXZKSbKTJMeITRi3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%2010.27.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office draw, or at least a recognizable name... and he took a risk to work for a low-budget production company that, yet another decade past, made the British teenage-girl-reform-school vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/10/evilyoung.html">SO EVIL, SO YOUNG</a>, basically a remake of the American SO YOUNG, SO BAD that's far superior, particularly since Henreid's psychologist character is pushed up front...</p><p><br>In most teen-prison programmers, the friendly shrink contrasting to the abusive warden/guards is peripheral: as most of the action takes place with the girls and their captors... which still happens here, but since the motivating plight's in check with Henreid (alongside pretty/uptight social-worker Catherine McLeod), there are less soapy elements and more character-driven suspense relying on how to stop the in-house tyranny... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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ANNE FRANCIS AND ANNE JACKSON BREAKOUT IN 'SO YOUNG, SO BAD'

Anne Francis in SO YOUNG, SO BAD Year: 1950 Rating: **** A decade after CASABLANCA, nice guy Paul Henreid was still somewhat of a box office...

INGRID PITT STEALS HAMMER'S EXPLOITATION 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS'

<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/AVvXsEj9RBRiDblClxmwWwXslzng7YwqeRNEhgpgrE-I07wsNHFAVzrWFg61w1kFLhkID7T22PP8n5gBRg_CgnA7euY5hsHDfHKmeK5hJD6HIY5C7ntz6Hf-vS8HAi8L1QzraXSQt-1vxoaGFik8jZsmVwqZK3WhwZVA93cPKBciEiV9XjpOHFJvgRYWXCL-d_e_/s2062/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%2010.11.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="2062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RBRiDblClxmwWwXslzng7YwqeRNEhgpgrE-I07wsNHFAVzrWFg61w1kFLhkID7T22PP8n5gBRg_CgnA7euY5hsHDfHKmeK5hJD6HIY5C7ntz6Hf-vS8HAi8L1QzraXSQt-1vxoaGFik8jZsmVwqZK3WhwZVA93cPKBciEiV9XjpOHFJvgRYWXCL-d_e_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-29%20at%2010.11.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ingrid Pitt with Kate O'Mara & Madeline Smith THE VAMPIRE LOVERS Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At one point in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, Ingrid Pitt's central vampire Marcilla (then Carmilla) turns to the young, innocent and naive Madeline Smith's Emma and shouts, "You must die... Everyone must die!"<br><br>What sounded like a threat was really a kind of arthouse philosophy lesson... making THE VAMPIRE LOVERS more a Bergmaneque lesbian-fueled melodrama than the harsher followups <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/lustvamp.html">LUST FOR A VAMPIRE </a>and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/eviltwins.html">TWINS OF EVIL</a>... later deemed <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/karstein">The Karstein Trilogy</a>... that brought Hammer Films into the naked-sexy 1970's...</p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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INGRID PITT STEALS HAMMER'S EXPLOITATION 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS'

Ingrid Pitt with Kate O'Mara & Madeline Smith THE VAMPIRE LOVERS Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 At one point in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, Ingri...

FABIO TESTI AND DAVID HEMMINGS TEAM IN 'THE HEROIN BUSTERS'

<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/AVvXsEhyUf4CrASIt068Zy-n3HgEc7W3TEmcvEff4Cu4reYgK-r-L2X8utIr1-iATfKve06UzIzTHi3Xfs09Gnn36j3oi86q-Q1IYX8hyAd9eUSyaOyYuPCd2awUBHqWxOtsH3JItqDRZn_MGbrdgvjzzyIthhF5q48yn2MiBOE-YTNNMCGEoMyCzJtssPI__UTc/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-16%20at%2012.37.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUf4CrASIt068Zy-n3HgEc7W3TEmcvEff4Cu4reYgK-r-L2X8utIr1-iATfKve06UzIzTHi3Xfs09Gnn36j3oi86q-Q1IYX8hyAd9eUSyaOyYuPCd2awUBHqWxOtsH3JItqDRZn_MGbrdgvjzzyIthhF5q48yn2MiBOE-YTNNMCGEoMyCzJtssPI__UTc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-16%20at%2012.37.24%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HEROIN BUSTERS Year: 1977 Rating: ***</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's initially distracting that, in the first twenty minutes of THE HEROIN BUSTERS, extremely handsome Italian actor Fabio Testi doesn't seem the part of a grungy, emaciated drug-dealer, busted at an airport before helping a junky escape from a dilapidated lockup... which is intentional because he's not what he seems... <br> <br> Meanwhile the true junky, played by Wolfango Soldati, who, to further complicate matters, resembles Testi, initially seems like an important side-character, as does gorgeous TENTACLES starlet Sherry Buchanan as a bisexual model wielding much appreciated gratuitous nudity...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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FABIO TESTI AND DAVID HEMMINGS TEAM IN 'THE HEROIN BUSTERS'

Title: THE HEROIN BUSTERS Year: 1977 Rating: *** * It's initially distracting that, in the first twenty minutes of THE HEROIN BUSTERS, ...

BRITISH WEREWOLF FROM OUTER SPACE HORROR FLICK 'PREY'

<p></p><table 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/AVvXsEi5y-6D7HCVYK1RRSk9eSJnoxOHIPlzcpvHQY2MZHW3Qcc6IB3O_wyd_IeEu_upscmLljUAzM2rYBORzbuiQfX7oKpgAqbOxRCrHqmDWY-NECnuMVVEnludJK88p5seG-ZHkohBCuuRmcRB/s1061/Screen+Shot+2020-09-28+at+2.37.21+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="961" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5y-6D7HCVYK1RRSk9eSJnoxOHIPlzcpvHQY2MZHW3Qcc6IB3O_wyd_IeEu_upscmLljUAzM2rYBORzbuiQfX7oKpgAqbOxRCrHqmDWY-NECnuMVVEnludJK88p5seG-ZHkohBCuuRmcRB/w363-h400/Screen+Shot+2020-09-28+at+2.37.21+PM.jpeg" width="363"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: PREY Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A shape-shifting space alien takes the form of a handsome young man on Earth and, after violently doing what he was sent for (which we learn at the end), he finds two pretty lesbians holed-up in a rural country estate... just so he can study their daily/nightly routine... Which means that men are all the same no matter what planet they derive...<br></p><p></p><p>For a robotic-like secret monster in Barry Stokes it's a complicated (and often risky) lesson of love and jealousy in what's an offbeat triangle within a low-budget science-fiction horror with plenty of intended downtime, giving the feel that cult director Norman J. Warren's PREY is actually more of a deliberately slow-paced arthouse thriller, and, filmed in England with British actors, the acting's quite good when it really shouldn't be... </p><p>Featuring the more feminine and once straight Glory Annen (with an unseen backstory involving an ex-husband), who's given either loving/controlling kisses <i>or</i> dirty/frustrated looks by her shorter-haired yet equally attractive lover (Sally Faulkner), the most fun is how the bickering couple tries figuring out this strange male visitor, who winds up like a benign, manipulated little brother of sorts... Meanwhile the taboo exploitation gets sporadically intruded upon by what hardcore horror fans would want much more of, like gruesome body count deaths by the alien, particularly while sporting full fangs, an interstellar wolfman, who, despite having plenty to watch (as a voyeur along with the intended male audience) has very little to do. </p><p><span></span></p>

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BRITISH WEREWOLF FROM OUTER SPACE HORROR FLICK 'PREY'

Title: PREY Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 A shape-shifting space alien takes the form of a handsome young man on Earth and, after violently doin...

CRISTINA FERRARE VAMPING OUT IN 'MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY'

<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/AVvXsEiOJ4azoWL3s1MUgjnmptoPHEISBB2WsTd3WfdcOEak0zArQqwfQ2u9wi3RDFgVVcBDzuvTKG2_Q1azxvoEH-RuehRuyzglmUvMcSR-sy9WzbzpqVSpz6WVfdI3NpddYgfr9N-AFVh4qlYV/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-10+at+6.22.10+AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJ4azoWL3s1MUgjnmptoPHEISBB2WsTd3WfdcOEak0zArQqwfQ2u9wi3RDFgVVcBDzuvTKG2_Q1azxvoEH-RuehRuyzglmUvMcSR-sy9WzbzpqVSpz6WVfdI3NpddYgfr9N-AFVh4qlYV/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-09-10+at+6.22.10+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cristina Ferrare in MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY Year: 1975</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> More exploitation than horror, MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY is a visual treat, not only because the leading lady, Cristina Ferrare, is gorgeous but the Mexico location offer a myriad of settings to keep the viewer interested while the characters always have something to do, and somewhere to go: with little chance of getting away...<br> <br> From beaches to highways, villas and art galleries, it's a low-budget flick that, despite the wooden, noticeably looped dialogue, will keep you in intrigued, entranced. Mary is a surreal artist about to enjoy an art show displaying her strange work. When not painting, she hangs around with a handsome, feathered-haired drifter, who becomes the only person she seems to love i.e. doesn’t sink her teeth into…<br>

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CRISTINA FERRARE VAMPING OUT IN 'MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY'

Cristina Ferrare in MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY Year: 1975 More exploitation than horror, MARY, MARY, BLOODY MARY is a visual treat, not onl...

DAVID BOWIE DOESN'T SUCK IN TONY SCOTT'S 'THE HUNGER'

<table 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/AVvXsEhmlcFu56TX9Fn83Cy66xKHW9hMHFpiPiQbui-NjZ0bYj847aDi7N3je3510p5lfassDKVG0Lgg5r-zeAdk6TuUAw5GVmY1sKzDQJX2e3jQ9K84Da43JhiF148UHDNdKty83gLp3p_u9W4e/s1600/MV5BMTYyMTkwNzc1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5NTUyNTM%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1482%252C1000_AL_.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1387" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmlcFu56TX9Fn83Cy66xKHW9hMHFpiPiQbui-NjZ0bYj847aDi7N3je3510p5lfassDKVG0Lgg5r-zeAdk6TuUAw5GVmY1sKzDQJX2e3jQ9K84Da43JhiF148UHDNdKty83gLp3p_u9W4e/s400/MV5BMTYyMTkwNzc1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg5NTUyNTM%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1482%252C1000_AL_.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Bowie with Catherine Deneuve in THE HUNGER Year: 1983</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> With quick editing and plenty of steamy close-ups, Tony Scott's movies often felt like music videos – yet this, unlike several of his other (more commercial) projects, is a really good video.<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Centering on Catherine Deneuve’s Miriam Blaylock, a gorgeous vampire holed up in a dark mansion with her husband of two thousand years, John, played with a subtle intensity by musician David Bowie, one of the few actors that could act and, halfway through, providing a surprise attack that truly underlines the pinnacle of the film's suspense, and who our dark anti-heroine promised “eternal life" to, which turned out being a gift with a price: After enough time, her lover’s begin aging rapidly: in the course of twenty-four they’re coffin-bound, for keeps. Which is John's dilemna, who tries seeking help a scientist bent on curing the fatal disease where teenagers can die of old age... <br>

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DAVID BOWIE DOESN'T SUCK IN TONY SCOTT'S 'THE HUNGER'

David Bowie with Catherine Deneuve in THE HUNGER Year: 1983 With quick editing and plenty of steamy close-ups, Tony Scott's movies o...

HANNA

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPETxjf-9ASjd1mcUXNDn9Gxs2uOikXfKc1rky8ckJ6HxTnAzkuQzXQlFd6K6WhaNJHYBl34V3saQYjccEO87ZpedknruWvq5EaAS-o1DhO7yMpGz3i7QgRo7sHZod1PJvEszhR_Jrev-/s1600/Picture+4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPETxjf-9ASjd1mcUXNDn9Gxs2uOikXfKc1rky8ckJ6HxTnAzkuQzXQlFd6K6WhaNJHYBl34V3saQYjccEO87ZpedknruWvq5EaAS-o1DhO7yMpGz3i7QgRo7sHZod1PJvEszhR_Jrev-/s1600/Picture+4.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>year:</b> 2011 <b>cast:</b> Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Jessica Barden, Paris Arrowsmith <b>rating:</b> ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> The opening and closing sequences, mirroring each other in content and closure, envelope this unique action/suspense in such a clever fashion you’ll forget the flaws.<br /> <br /> Our taut story centers on a teenage girl, Hanna, raised in the snowy Finland wilderness, displaying cunning agile as she hunts deer and learns from her mentor/father played by Eric Bana, making the most of a small (but important) amount of screen time.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYtwM-AqAY-AEImwkNVeUZqrTrKvrdONMPSIPqEXUk3IcyZ7K3KU1JfyTPxkfTiDOq04_Qd6Ku_T1KdGFIOYMCKCoMBoBcaVB6q9a0b6cMng9edWuVso-cmWsuee3_C8C6ur229G02YC-/s1600/Picture+2.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYtwM-AqAY-AEImwkNVeUZqrTrKvrdONMPSIPqEXUk3IcyZ7K3KU1JfyTPxkfTiDOq04_Qd6Ku_T1KdGFIOYMCKCoMBoBcaVB6q9a0b6cMng9edWuVso-cmWsuee3_C8C6ur229G02YC-/s1600/Picture+2.png" /></a></div> But soon enough, wary of her claustrophobic, contained anonymity, Hanna decides to venture into civilization, warned she’d be hunted by federal agents – one in particular played by Cate Blanchett, as coolly calculating as the titular protagonist sans the chaste sympathy of youth.<br /> <br /> Hanna’s adventure is tight and suspenseful as she, after a seemingly easy yet downright bloody escape – dad trained her to get out of <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> situation – travels across Europe with deadly agents on her tail. The metronomic techno soundtrack not only works as a hypnotic score but seems a robotic muse keeping the daring phenom alive and kicking to the next venture.<br /> <br /> Along the way she meets… and surreptitiously joins up with… a family consisting of father, mother, son, and teenage daughter (smitten with Hanna's rogue naivete), and the film hits a wall – that Hanna smashes through once the agents tail her again.<br /> <br /> Blanchett displays the right amount of detached evil to counter our heroine's equally determined quest to survive, and more importantly, the persistence to discover her true origins which, once disclosed, makes things clearer for an audience that, having suspended disbelief this long, are willing to accept just about anything.<br /> <br /> Saoirse Ronan (THE LOVELY BONES) is great in the lead role: with narrowed eyes and the right amount of tomboyish beauty, she's a sublime mix of naïve innocence and lethal cunning. Not a perfect film, but it should keep you interested.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfyfizRCvOVTZuZ23-Wuz3eAsmLjfrbnZqCnBvJ3S66vQUAlaiyQAouPx1PROXhweJraEfoPKt2Kt466CyCoZRIluO_4jAnhrvjH-7t80Q7L1rz2Hrju4wFcyaBA3XUPF5u2qgAFiymmb/s1600/Picture+1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfyfizRCvOVTZuZ23-Wuz3eAsmLjfrbnZqCnBvJ3S66vQUAlaiyQAouPx1PROXhweJraEfoPKt2Kt466CyCoZRIluO_4jAnhrvjH-7t80Q7L1rz2Hrju4wFcyaBA3XUPF5u2qgAFiymmb/s1600/Picture+1.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=Hanna&oq=HANNA&ac_posn=1">RENT HANNA ON NETFLIX</a></td></tr> </tbody></table>

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HANNA

year: 2011 cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Jessica Barden, Paris Arrowsmith rating: *** The opening and closing seque...