When a fashion model dies during an abortion, it sparks a series of murders that are all connected to the modeling agency she worked for. As the models drop like flies in grisly deaths by a mysterious killer dressed in a leather jumpsuit and motorcycle helmet,

a.k.a. Kaidan nobori ryu Of all the off-beat delights conjured up by the sorely missed Teruo Ishii, The Blind Woman’s Curse must surely rank as one of the strangest. Ishii’s countless and diverse credits include the Joys of Torture series

Ok, so the vindictive ex-con plot is there just to frame interminable scenes of swimsuit/lingerie/topless models posing for an ex-model turned commercial photographer, but there are a few decent twists. Accordingly, it’s not bad fare if you’re in a Joe Bob Briggs kind of mood.

Cut And Run is about roughly a drug lab that is hidden on the edge side of a river in the Amazon jungle and a plane flies in and out from time to time smuggling cocaine. So Michael Berryman the leader of a local native cannibal tribe sneaks into the drug smugglers camp by using bamboo pipes

Spanish horror star Paul Naschy’s four collaborations with young director Carlos Aured (a former assistant to Leon Klimovsky) were all made during the peak of his career, with 1973’s Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (Los Ojos azules de la muñeca rota) being a favorite among diehard

Waves of Lust made in 1975 marked a return to feature film making for Ruggero Deodato after a few years in the wilderness of television. Deodato was initially lukewarm about taking on the film – at that point it was a relatively innocuous softcore skin flick, but his interest was stirred

Genre is an unfortunate and regrettable aspect of film theory, resulting in the pigeonholing of films by what they should contain rather than what they uniquely offer. Along with a misguided respect for narrative, genre dominates much film criticism and eduction, resulting in ugly and puerile classifications.

A plane explodes; one passenger is a London businessman who’s insured for $1 million. His unfaithful wife is the beneficiary. The insurance agency arranges to pay, but also assigns their top investigator, Peter Lynch, to sniff out irregularities.

Paul Naschy was directed by Leon Klimovsky 8 times between 1970 and 1976, Muerte de un Quinqui ( Death of a Hoodlum ) was their 6th collaboration. This is a rare one in that there are no supernatural or horror elements on display. Naschy wrote the screenplay which details the exploits of the main character, a full blown psychopath

A body smacks against the cold stone floor, dead, before sliding down a flight of stairs into a dank, cold dungeon. Clunkety-clunk, clunkety-cluck, leaving crimson splotches in its wake. In this dungeon, lit only by a single torch casting impenetrable shadows from the far wall, the body is left to be feasted upon by rats.