Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1973 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier
Underground maverick and Andy Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey (CHELSEA GIRLS) reimagines Mary Shelley’s modern myth, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality in this outré, baroquely stylized cult sensation. His take on the tale of the mad Baron Frankenstein (the one and only Udo Kier) and the perverse creative urges that lead him to deranged experiments with dead bodies in order to create a master race is a riot of kinky transgression and subversive social commentary that took horror cinema in bold new directions by fusing exploitation thrills with an ironic, postmodern reflexivity.
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Sisters
Directed by Brian De Palma • 1973 • United States
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles DurningMargot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously...
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Blood for Dracula
Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1974 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Maxime McKendryPaul Morrissey’s follow-up to FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is another audacious, elegantly lurid reimagining of horror mythology that lives in its own perverse realm somewhere between camp outrageousn...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Directed by Peter Weir • 1975 • Australia
Starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen MorseThis sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lin...
