Director: Jose Sombra
Writers: Claude Anders, Dan Dare & Jose Sombra
Release Year: 2006
He … uh … peeps.
A modern sex-murderer and a resurrected medieval sex-murderer both murder women over sex. Yeah.
Director: William Lustig
Writer: C. A . Rosenberg and Joe Spinell
Release Year: 1980
Every time you go out this kind of thing happens.
A woman has her throat sliced as she was waiting for her boyfriend on an empty beach. When the boyfriend returns, a hulking figure attacks him from behind and garrotes him off of the ground. Frank (Joe Spinell) wakes up screaming and sweaty. It was only a nightmare. He begins to rock himself back and forth to gather his bearings. It is apparent that Frank has some serious mental issues… and we are only three minutes into the film.
Director: Adrián García Bogliano
Writer: Ramiro García Bogliano, Adrián García Bogliano and Martin Frías
Release year: 2008
English title: I’ll Never Die Alone
The Revenge of Rapesploitation
Four girls on a roadtrip make the mistake of picking up a dying girl at the side of the road. They’ll soon find themselves antagonized by three hunter-brutes deprived of all morals. Their rape was only the beginning…
Director: Mark Hartley
Writer: Mark Hartley
Release year: 2008
Aussie Exquisiteness!
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation, is the movie’s full title and that’s exactly what this documentary is all about. Witness the history of Australian exploitation cinema as you could not have dreamt it to be.
A year has come & gone and Offscreen Film Festival is ready to kick off the third edition of their annual festivities. From the 4th of March to the 21st, this year’s program will again take you on a voyage across extravagant cinematographic landscapes. A trip down Japanese, European & Italian genre cinema from past days as well as an introduction to some freshly released films from today’s world cinema.
“Film fans with a taste for the unconventional and the unusual, rejoice!”
In this news flash you’ll find the trailer of this year’s edition, a blurb from Offscreen’s website explaining briefly what all you can expect and to get your cinephilic juices flowing, we’ve compiled a photo gallery with some poster art & movie stills all related to the films on Offscreen’s 2010 program.
Images often say more than words, so we’ll leave it at that. Now proceed and go click on some things below… and be amazed!
Director: Tulio Demicheli
Writer: Mario di Nardo, José G. Maesso & Santiago Moncada
Release Year: 1974
“Some guy with a strange face is looking for you to kill you.”
Chris Mitchum (son of legendary actor Robert Mitchum) is Ricco Avasi; a fresh from prison parolee who comes home to find out that his gangster father has been whacked and his woman Rosa (Marisa Longo) is with another man. The sonofabitch behind it all is Don Vito (Arthur Kennedy) and he has no idea the kind of hell he has brought on himself by messing with the MEAN MACHINE. So full of vengeance that it looks like he is sleepwalking, Ricco travels to Rome to find the bastards that screwed up his life. He eventually teams up with an old counterfeiter and his often-naked daughter (Barbara Bouchet) to exact his revenge in this Italian/Spanish co-production.
Director: Lucifer Valentine
Writer: Lucifer Valentine
Release Year: 2006
What hath MTV wrought?
People have sex, throw up, and get killed. Yeah, that’s it really.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writer: Jiku Yamatoya, based on a manga by Masaaki Sato
Release year: 1979
Japanese title: Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari
Human depravation… Sex… Torture… Death.
Or, how to be mislead by Japanese 70′s exploitation cinema.
Tatsuya is a handsome but lonely man who inherits his family’s fortune. This includes his late parents’ luxurious mansion on an isolated and serene location. Tatsuya likes beautiful young women. He also likes inviting them to his mansion. But sadly, they don’t really like what all he does to them.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Release Year: 1972
Two girls have a Hess of a time.
Two girls, straitlaced Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) and wilder girl Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham) go to New York City to attend a concert, but they run afoul of a problem. That problem comes in the form of two escaped criminals – Krug Stillo (David Hess) and Fred ‘Weasel’ Podowski (Fred Lincoln) – and two scumbags – Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Junior Stillo (Marc Sheffler). When the scumbags end up at the home of Mari’s parents, Dr. John (Richard Towers) and Estelle (Cynthia Carr), things go from bad to ugly to Leatherface very quickly….
Writer: Vidal Raski
Director: Harlan Asquith & William Mayo
Release year: 1973
Danish title: Dvaergen
Great evil can sometimes come in very small packages….
I have waited quite a while to see this film. I do not exactly know why I wanted to see it so badly, considering I have a great distaste and fear towards dwarves, little people, midgets….whatever the hell they are called. I guess for someone who is well over 6 feet tall, it makes sense that my fears are of things that are tiny.
