arabian nights (1974)

AKA The Flower of 1001 Nights. Il fiore delle mille e una notte.
"Oh My!"
Set in ancient Arabia, the main story follows Nur Ed Din (Franco Merli) as he tries to find the beautiful slave girl Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini).
Filmed on location and featuring many local actors this is an episodic and sexually explicit retelling of a handful of Oriental tales.

red sonja (2025)

"She is stronger than any of us."
Red Sonja (Matilda Lutz) is a warrior in search for her tribe, having watched them being butchered as a child. But then she is captured by the maniacal Draygan (Robert Sheehan) and sent to fight as a gladiator...
If you come to this with no knowledge of its comic-book back story you will probably still be disapointed as it unravels its predictable story. But it could have been worse.

ilsa, harem keeper of the oil sheiks (1976)

"The man that comes to me will not have to be dragged."
Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne) has moved on from the third reich, and is now head of a sex-trafficking ring for a middle eastern sheikh (Jerry Delony). But trouble comes in the form of American diplomat (Max Thayer), who is intent on overthrowing the sheik's corrupt government
The second installment of the Ilsa series, ups the campy dialogue to the sleaze.

vampire ecstacy (1974)

AKA Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern. The Devil's Plaything.
"Perhaps we should leave this place."
Dr Julia Malenkow () and her brother are studying the local superstitions of the area when invited to stay at Varga castle and find it to be the centre the worship of Dania Varga (Nadia Henkowa), an ancient vampire.
Sophorific acting and film pacing do nothing to add to the field of entertainment in this film.

frankenstein (2025)

"You may be my creator, but from this day forward, I will be your master."
An ice bound ship, with it's crew working desperately to free it, find a man half dead on the pack ice, mauled by a mighty beast. Once aboard the ship and the beast consined to the icy depths the man tells his story. Of his desire to please an unforgiving father, to creating a monster. Or is he the monster?
Told in flashback, initially from the point of view of the scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), but then more tellingly from the mind of the creature (Jacob Elordi). Del Toro sticks roughly to the original tale and needs the creatures pathos to ground this intreging tale told well using visual flashes of colour in a muted palette to carve out this gothic classic.

caligula's hot nights (1977)

AKA Le calde notti di Caligola
"Professor!"
Emperor Caligula (Carlo Colombo) has a serious problem as his libedo is not up to it and he has to find a way to prove his virility...
A bawdy Italian comedy, with little in the way of laughs or entertainment.

two roses and a golden rod (1969)

AKA Naked Under Satin. Ménage à trois.
"If I was a candle I would burn at both ends."
Mother (Elizabeth Knowles) and daughter (Ami Paisley) fight for the affection of the mother's husband, and whilst the daughter has incestious thoughts the mother is looking for affection elsewhere.
Boardering on the edge of 'so bad it's good' with the continuous inner monologues from the various participants as the tip-toe around the morales of 60's America.