A tiny ginger kitten is manhandled by a nasty nurse but gets their comeuppance in this Thai horror film reviewed by Mark Murton.
Category Archives: Foreign
Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973)
by Mark Murton Original Spanish Title: El gran amor del conde Drácula Directed by: Javier Aguirre Synopsis: Stranded at the foot of the Carpathians after their coach loses a wheel on the Borgo Pass, the passengers, a man and four beautiful young women, seek shelter in the abandoned sanatorium that used to be Dracula’s castle. […]
Glass Ceiling (1971)
Original Title: El techo de cristal Directed by: Eloy de la Iglesia This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Marta (Carmen Sevilla), an attractive housewife living in a small rural apartment house on the outskirts of Madrid, spends most […]
The Black Tulip (1964)
by Ted Davis Original Title: La Tulipe Noire Directed by: Christian-Jaque Synopsis: In the days before The French Revolution, aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux (Alain Delon) leads a dangerous double life, acting as one of the nobility, yet also donning mask and cape as the Black Tulip, the notorious scourge and plunderer of the entitled […]
All That Breathes (2022)
Directed by: Shaunak Sen Synopsis: This documentary follows two brothers who live in New Dehli, India, and devote their lives to the rescue and rehabilitation of birds of prey, in particular the black kite. Purr Blur: A black kitten sitting on top of a freezer is shooed away by Salik Rehman, assistant to the brothers. […]
Inside (2007)
Original Title: À l’intérieur Directed by: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Sarah (Alysson Paradis), a pregnant woman who is recently widowed, is terrorized in her home by a mysterious woman (Béatrice Dalle) who wants […]
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
by Mark Murton Original French Title: Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris Directed by: Jacques Rivette Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Julie (Dominique Labourier), a daydreaming librarian, meets magician Celine (Juliet Berto) in Montmartre and they wind up sharing the same […]
Cat Concert (1986)
Original Title: Кошачий концерт Directed by: Vladimir Kadukhin Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A group of cats gather to sing on a rooftop but are interrupted by the noise of people all around them in this animated short from the Soviet Union. Cartoon Cats: A […]
La Poison (1951)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Sacha Guitry Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After enduring 30 years of something less than connubial bliss with drunken and slovenly shrew Blandine (Germaine Reuver), the exhausted and constantly harassed Paul Louis Victor Bracconier (Michel Simon) determines to put an end […]
Münchhausen (1943)
by Brian H. English Title: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Directed by: Josef von Báky Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen (Hans Albers) and his wife (Käthe Haack) live in modern Germany. This Baron Münchhausen is a descendant of the famous Baron […]