Come Blow the Horn manages to feel more Swedish than Bergman (despite being directed by New Yorker Joseph Sarno) yet is absolutely filthy, even by 1970s porn standards (the dialogue in particular, although there are a couple scenes that could stand up to all but the freakiest American productions). I really liked this – 113 minutes is basically insanity for an adult film, and yet I found the near two hours to fly by, a whimsical and rural fuckfest taking…

White Crocodile Queen came out the same year as the superior Santet and shares at least five of the same cast members, but after an opening ten minutes that overpromises this ends up landing somewhere between the two Santets in quality, although it’s still a number of degrees less obnoxiously silly than the Santet sequel despite being loaded up with rubber crocodiles and bringing back the bumbling security guard duo from that series. It starts out with a woman giving…

Lustmord is one of the more (most?) fucked up movies I’ve ever seen and I found myself shocked with its content on multiple occasions – and while I find it hard to rate on its actual merits due to the extreme subject material, it certainly left more of an impression than almost anything else I’ve watched, as I was pretty repulsed and uncomfortable more often than not in the final two-thirds or so of a mercifully brief 57 minute runtime.…

The back of the box for this makes an interesting point — not a lot is known about its production but the credits for this feature two directors, two directors of photography, and three screenwriters (which is hard to believe), which when combined with the fact that this has two separate narratives running in parallel (one involves main character Lena on the brink of suicide as an adult, the other consisting of flashbacks to her childhood) lends itself to the…