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Tag Archives: shocking
Scenes from “Little Deaths” [2011 UK]
I’m not generally a great fan of gore/horror even if I do sit through the odd one just to discover its notoriety, and I admit not having too many expectations either when I opened the DVD of the British film … Continue reading
Posted in United Kingdom
Tagged British cinema, frontal nudity, groping, leg spreading, shocking
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Ingrid Thulin in “Vargtimmen” [1968, Sweden]
Ingmar Bergman ventures into horror genre in this 1968 classic, “Vargtimmen” [Eng. Title: The Hour of the Wolf]. Versatile though the great man is, as ever, he doesn’t for a frame forego his meticulous attention to detail. You don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Sweden
Tagged black and white, Ingmar Bergman, shocking, swedish
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Scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” BR720 [UK 1971]
Very few people would be unaware of the great Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking social and ethical commentary “A Clockwork Orange” – possibly among most people’s list of their top 50 films of all-time. It is also one of the most reviewed … Continue reading
Posted in Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom
Tagged British cinema, frontal nudity, groping, public nudity, rape, shocking
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Lucia Mascino & Anna Mascino in “L’eredità di Caino” [2007 Italy]
I revisited Sebastiano Montresor’s directorial debut, “L’eredità di Caino” [Eng. Title: The Heritage of Cain”] with some more background information about the work. The title alludes to a collection of works by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the film … Continue reading
Posted in Italian Cinema, Sebastiano Montresor
Tagged frontal nudity, italian, Italian cinema, shocking
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Scenes from “Satanás” [2007 Colombia, Mexico]
You’d be forgiven for assuming that any Latin American film titled “Satanás” must be a nunsploitation flick from a bygone age. As it turns out, this 2007 drama is a recreation of a shocking 1986 massacre in Colombia when a … Continue reading
Posted in Colombia, Mexico
Tagged Colombia, Latin America, mexico, rape, shocking, urination
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