I’ve long found this ambitious 1980 shocker fascinating, even though it’s a crappy movie. CALIGULA is of course the legendary Penthouse-financed historical porno epic, a one-of-a-kind debacle with a background as outrageous as the film itself.

A dark, freaky headscratcher from a filmmaker beloved by art snobs the world
over: the French Louis Malle, best known for refined fare like ATLANTIC CITY, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE and VANYA ON 42nd STREEET. BLACK MOON is an intriguing anomaly in Malle’s filmography, and a definite standout in the category of surreal, quasi-futuristic baloney.

2007: there’s not much to say, really, except the year’s now over and it’s time for my annual Best and Worst horror movies list. As always, it includes only those films commercially released theatrically or on DVD within the [...]

There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers of wildly divergent backgrounds and nationalities inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
The seventies were of course a [...]