Vigilante

REVIEW – Savage Streets

Published on: 17th January, 2010

Linda Blair was fast becoming the queen of exploitation during the early 1980s, having followed her controversial breakthrough role in The Exorcist with a string of notorious flicks from the disturbing TV movie Born Innocent (in which she was raped by co-star Nora Heflin with a mop handle) to the women-in-prison schlock classic Chained Heat, [...]

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REVIEW – Maniac Cop

Published on: 20th December, 2009

Vigilantes had become a common theme of cinema during the 1980s, as had police corruption. New York had been depicted in Taxi Driver and Basket Case as a sleazy and unforgiving hellhole and even the authorities were unreliable and untrustworthy. Maniac Cop was the product of the most unlikely of collaborations: director William [...]

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REVIEW – I Spit on Your Grave

Published on: 20th December, 2009

1970s cinema has become renowned for its portrayal of sleazy sex and violence, both of which would often come as a double bill. The rape/revenge subgenre, which had first found success with Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, would become a major draw at the drive-ins across [...]

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