I Saw A Film! As soon as you see Cameron Mitchell's clean-shaven and already well-aged face (man he was around for a long time!) you know he's up to no good in this "giallo" (I had to look that up, Italian horror/thriller) shocker from Mario Bava. Lovely lady models are being murdered by a masked…

I Saw A Film! Poor Francois Dorleac dead at 25 in a car accident just as her career was about to hit the stratosphere. Here she is as a cute barefoot beach bum alongside the legendary, and quite weird Donald Pleasance as they are overtaken, in their isolated castle (and isolated love-though there's something of…

I Saw A Film! I hated the idea of this movie when I was in high school and I avoided seeing any of the handful of sequels as well as this original. I didn't know this was a 1950's era coming-of-age product. I also had no idea that central to the story was cold-hearted racism…

I Saw a Film! I'm breaking with my usual behavior of ranting and raving only about older films and films kind of resigned to teenage, blue eyeshadow, campground BBQ sauce mess heaps--the stuff of drive-ins (which right now should be enjoying a Covid come-back) and forgotten creature double-features to talk a bit about one of…

I Saw a Film! Enterprising landscaping teen works out a financial deal with the popular girl at school to improve his popularity. What no one expects is that this thousand bucks, originally earned for the nerd tool of a telescope, has been used to disrupt the natural socio-economic structures of a high school. The youngsters…

I Saw a Film! We start with some grave robbers snatching a body, looking much like the Traveling Wilburys, sometime in the 19th century (or like Tom Petty and company c. 1988). The lovely med student daughter of the famous Dr. Frankenstein has returned home just in time for one of Pop's most famous experiments.…

I Saw A Film! From the sadism of upperclassmen abusing the underclass with paddling and degradation to the frustration of the emptiness of parties and sports, the story of coming-of-age has never felt less fulfilling. The fact that Dazed and Confused lacks a coherent over-arching plot is both to its merit and kind of a…

I Saw A Film! Yellowbeard, played by the brilliant (but reportedly often drunk: See: A Liar's Autobiography) Graham Chapman, is married to the delightful Madeline Kahn and is about to be released from the dingy prison, where he was not expected to survive. He learns of his twenty year old offspring being a gardener, leaving…

I Saw a Film! Tim Conway, growing up for me, was a particular comic force (something not as wild as Faulty Towers, and maybe a step up from Keeping Up Appearances (not sure why I went after two Brit shows there, but have been raised on Brit comedy) having earned his keep on television, especially…

I Saw A Film! Terrifying Teenagers on the streets of commercial Los Angeles. A narrator explains to us teen habits and assures us that they are no different from us. The Standells and Chocolate Watchband do a few numbers. It's a film with mostly enviable guitars built by Vox and such. I'm told that whatever…