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The Love Blackmailer (1966)

The drifter Russ Taren blackmails cheating wives into paying with both cash and special favors while fending off his landlady's nightly advances. This seedy Toronto noir focuses on a neglected housewife who becomes Taren's reluctant "love slave". A fascinating glimpse of mid-60s Canadian suburbia.

The Love Blackmailer | Cultpix The drifter Russ Taren blackmails cheating wives into paying with both cash and sexual favors while fending off his landlady's nightly advances. This seedy Toronto noir focuses on a neglected housewife who becomes Taren's reluctant

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Trucker's Woman (1975)

Truck stops, big rigs, sleazy motel encounters, and Sigourney Weaver's uncle!

Yup, it’s Trucker’s Woman, a regional rarity shot in South Carolina by director Will Zens - the man responsible for the cult classick Capture That Capsule! - which toured the drive-in circuit on an official double bill with Hot Summer in Barefoot County.

After the father of Mike Kelly (soap opera actor Michael Hawkins) is killed in a suspicious trucking accident, Kelly sets out to find who’s responsible... but not until he first pursues Karen (Peggy Linville), a purdy woman driving a red convertible sports car. Following her to a truck stop in his big rig, Kelly gives her some smooth trucker-style small talk: "For a little ol’ gal, you sure can handle those wheels!" Being the classy broad she is, Karen politely gives him the brush-off. Undaunted, Kelly goes straight to her motel room where he barges in on her taking a shower! Karen promptly exclaims, "I’m no truck stop woman!" but proves otherwise when she eagerly puts out for him, then scrams early the next morning.

Getting back to business, Kelly tries to organize his fellow truckers. It seems some stolen goods are being shipped out and Jake, the Big Boss, is in on the illegal activities. But - oops! - Kelly is unknowingly set up with some hot cargo, gets caught, and is pressured by the police into going undercover and finding out just who’s involved....

Trucker’s Woman is a white-trash jamboree. The guys all wear loud plaid blazers, and Karen has a mangy frosted wig propped on her head. There are fist fights, car chases, sk**ky ho’s, and, of course, country musk. Also featured is Doodles Weaver, the beloved character actor (and Sigoumey’s uncle!) who also appears in The Zodiac Killer, Bigfoot, and Macon County Line. Good man, that Doodles.

Trucker's Woman | Cultpix Hot Carolina drive-in action with truckers, fistfights and shower room romance! After his dad's murder, a vengeful trucker chases both a redhead in a sports car and cargo thieves, leading to white-trash mayhem complete with plaid blazers, sk**ky motels and country tunes.

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Shock-O-Rama (1955)

A wild burlesque variety show containing eight sizzling acts! From Candy Renee's New Orleans heat to Diane Ross' pasty-stealing monkey and Dutch doll Syra's wooden shoe tease, it all peaks with n**e Tempest Storm getting plastered while Princess Livingston (later of Russ Meyer fame) brings the laughs.

Shock-O-Rama | Cultpix A wild burlesque variety show containing eight sizzling acts! From Candy Renee's New Orleans heat to Diane Ross' pasty-stealing monkey and Dutch doll Syra's wooden shoe tease, it all peaks with n**e Tempest Storm getting plastered while Princess Livingston (later of Russ Meyer fame) brings the laugh...

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The Love Garden (1971)

When a persistent straight man tries seducing a pool-loving beauty away from her le***an lover, this classic pushes boundaries with encounters including Barbara Mills' steamy shower and Linda York's conversion attempt.

The Love Garden | Cultpix When a persistent straight man tries seducing a pool-loving beauty away from her le***an lover, this softcore classic pushes boundaries with explicit encounters including Barbara Mills' steamy shower and Linda York's nearly-hardcore conversion attempt. A peak achievement in pre- # # # erotica.

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Secrets of a Model (1940)

Carhop Rita trades waitressing for underwear modeling, slimy pl***oy Jack drugs her at a penthouse party, sending her down the road of shame in this $10,000 quickie. Not surprisingly, the director was poverty-row speed specialist Sam Newfield.

Secrets of a Model | Cultpix Carhop Rita trades waitressing for underwear modeling, slimy pl***oy Jack drugs her at a penthouse party, sending her down the road of shame in this $10,000 quickie. Not surprisingly, the director was poverty-row speed specialist Sam Newfield.

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Teenage Psycho Killer (1975)

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Harrowing Canadian drama, where 14-year-old John faces murder charges after his classmate is found strangled. He goes from ordinary teenager to condemned prisoner despite minimal evidence, creating a devastating indictment of a legal system willing to sacrifice a child to satisfy public bloodlust.

Teenage Psycho Killer | Cultpix Harrowing Canadian drama, where 14-year-old John faces murder charges after his classmate is found strangled. He goes from ordinary teenager to condemned prisoner despite minimal evidence, creating a devastating indictment of a legal system willing to sacrifice a child to satisfy public bloodlust.

Great interview with Jasper Sharp in Musique Machine about among other, the Swedish-Japanese Nikkatsu films released on Blu-ray by Klubb Super 8!

”M[m]: One of the more curious turns in the Roman P***o genre was that in the early 70’s Nikkatsu went to Sweden to make six films with a Swedish cast. These films have recently all been reissued by Klubb Super 8- as either a box set or as a standalone Blu-rays, with you supplying commentary tracks for said films. Could you talk a little bit about how/ why this occurred, and how these films were received by both Japanese and Swedish audiences of the time?

Jasper: When originally writing my book, when I lived in Japan, I came across one of these titles through looking at the filmography of one of the directors I was researching on a Japanese movie database. I noticed the label ‘Sweden P***o’ and that all of the cast were clearly non-Japanese European names, spelt out in the katakana phonetic script. It turns out there were six of these films, so I asked someone I knew at Nikkatsu about it, and they didn’t seem familiar with them. They didn’t have screeners, and they’d been out of circulation since their original release, but they did provide me with a poster and some stills for my book.

Years later, Rickard Gramfors of Klubb Super 8 found some of the posters elsewhere when researching his book ‘Do You Believe in Swedish Sin? Swedish Exploitation Film Posters, 1951-1984’, while in the meantime, a Swedish academic I know based in Japan, Johan Nordström, was intrigued by them, having read about them in my book, so did some more legwork liaising with Nikkatsu, and Rickard then organised new HD transfers with Nikkatsu, which then got released to home video in Japan.

So basically, these titles were sort of forgotten both in Japan and in Sweden until Rickard and Johan started doing some really intense research on them - Johann looking through the official production and release documentation Nikkatsu still had, and Rickard doing more on the Swedish side, trying to track down the original cast members there. It’s all a fascinating story. Effectively, the first four are pink films, because they were made by an independent production unit hired by Nikkatsu for some early titles in the Roman P***o line. It was basically a tiny Japanese crew who went out to Sweden, put an ad in a newspaper for wannabe actors, then made these films under the idea they’d never be shown in Sweden. Well, 50 years later, here we are…

The second two Swedish productions were made as Roman P***o, and had bigger budgets, meatier stories and were pretty substantial films – both totally different, with one a sort of home invasion exploitation movie, the other a more arty attempt to channel Bergman. But they are all really fascinating, because they are obviously fantasy scenarios based on how the Japanese imagined sexually liberated Swedes acted in the early 70s. They don’t really feel like European sexploitation films made at the time, nor do they obviously look like how you’d imagine Roman P***o. But to think, if it wasn’t for Rickard, Johan and I, these curios would be lost to history…”

The first out of six reviews of Klubb Super 8’s Nikkatsu films, from Musique Machine!

https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/desire-first-sex-experience-desire-first-sex-experience-blu-ray-1780508529183

Theme Week: Arne Mattsson

ARNE MATTSSON: FILM AT ANY COST

To coincide with the release of Arne Mattsson - film till varje pris by Anna-Maria and Roger Blomgren, Cultpix presents a retrospective with 24 films from one of Swedish cinema's most restless, most undervalued, and most obstinately productive directors.

Arne Mattsson (1919-1995) made roughly sixty feature films across five decades and received, in return, a fraction of the recognition he deserved. The reason is not hard to find: he had the misfortune of being a genre filmmaker in a country that, during his peak years, had decided that Ingmar Bergman was what Swedish cinema looked like. Mattsson made thrillers, melodramas, rural romances, and erotic adventures - often with genuine visual flair, almost always with tremendous energy, occasionally with results that rank among the most interesting Swedish films of their era. Critics slagged him anyway.
His reputation rests, still, on Hon dansade en sommar/One Summer of Happiness (1951) - the Golden Bear winner that accidentally ignited the international myth of "Swedish sin" and remains one of the most beautiful Swedish films ever made. But there is far more to find here. Kärlekens bröd /The Bread of Love (1953) is a taut, expressionistic war film that deserves to stand alongside the best Scandinavian cinema of the 1950s. Den gula bilen/The Tellow Car (1963), once dismissed by the Swedish press, has since been reappraised as a homegrown giallo before the Italians had properly invented the form. Vaxdockan/The Doll (1962) is as unsettling as anything in the Nordic horror tradition.

He worked with Sven Nykvist. He amused Alfred Hitchcock enough to receive a cigar. He adapted Strindberg, Lagerlöf, and Halldór Laxness. He ended his career making straight-to-video thrillers with Christopher Lee for Mats Helge Olsson in Lidköping. He did it all, as the new biography's title has it, at any price.

Start anywhere. Stay curious.

Kärlekens bröd (The Bread of Love (1953)

The Bread of Love | Cultpix Four Swedish soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them are the enemy lines, behind them the enemy minefields. Things get even more tense when they capture an enemy soldier.

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Saturday Night Bath in Apple Valley (1965)

Bizarre failed comedy! Yikes!

Saturday Night Bath in Apple Valley | Cultpix A Vegas gambler attempts to transform quaint Apple Valley into a gambling mecca while navigating surreal characters including a Viking and a Ouija board-obsessed town council! Bizarre failed comedy, where jokes hang in the air like deadly non sequiturs, transforming intended humor into something glo...