Psychomania. Don Sharp, 1973.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Teenage Innocence (Little Miss Innocence). Chris Warfield, 1972.
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Edition screened: Included with Teenage Seductress on Vinegar Syndrome Drive-In Collection DVD #073, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 72 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 02/5❤
Maid in Sweden. Dan Wolman (as Flock Johnson), 1971.
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Edition screened: Kino Lorber Blu-ray, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 81 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3.5/5❤
While the overall visual experience is enjoyable due to generous scenes of pre-ruined Stockholm, lovely women, and a curious Beatles poster, the date rape scene and the general behavior of both male characters should be unacceptable to anyone. The film’s mainstream status removes vintage pornography’s comforting filter of absurd play-acting.
Criticism of poor quality of the English overdub is off-base. These are ESL Swedes doing their best speaking English. Perhaps some ADR here and there as with almost any film, but there are no distracting sync issues.
They Call Her One Eye. Bo Arne Vibenius, 1974.
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Edition screened: Blu-ray included with Vinegar Syndrome UHD set Thriller: A Cruel Picture, released 2022. Original English dub. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
They Call Her One Eye is the family-friendly version of Thriller.
The Return of Count Yorga. Bob Kellijan, 1971.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow The Count Yorga Collection, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence of harm to animals.
The Arrow set also includes Count Yorga, Vampire (1970).
Death Has Blue Eyes (To koritsi vomva/The Para Psychics). Nico Mastorakis, 1976.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2021. English dub. Runtime approximately 80 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Chinatown Kid (Tang ren jie xiao zi). Chang Cheh, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume One, released 2021. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Sugar Cookies. Theodore Gershuny, 1973.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #043, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
The first ten minutes of Sugar Cookies are stilted and odd. Turns out, there’s a reason for that and yes it does look like a wig. I recommend smiling and nodding through this short sequence and allowing an entertaining film which is not a Vertigo remake to unwind.
Mary Woronov’s performance and stage presence shoved me over the hump of not understanding why she is loved even in the not-sarcastic world.
Some interior sets in Sugar Cookies are a treat, specifically those filmed in a gorgeous beaux arts house sparsely furnished with biomorphic Eero Aarnio and Raymond Loewy furniture. Oh, how we envy the homes of sophisticated people in movies. Typically, the more suave the occupants, the less furniture on the floors and stuff on the walls, but how well-chosen each of those things is. Oh. My. God. That is how I am going to redecorate. But when you do move into an empty house, Job Number One is to haul out all the inherited crap you and your parents have been dragging around for 50 or 100 years, and spread it around the house like mulch or blown foam insulation.
Old Dracula (Vampira). Clive Donner, 1974.
Hollywood Horror House (Savage Intruder). Donald Wolfe, 1973.
The Seven Minutes. Russ Meyer, 1971.
Strip Nude for Your Killer (Nude per l'assassino). Andrea Bianchi, 1975.
Survive Style 5+. Gen Sekiguchi, 2004.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Thriller - en grym film). Bo Arne Vibenius, 1974.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome 4K UHD, released 2022. Original Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3/5❤
The Vinegar Syndrome 3-disc set includes many special features and They Call Her One Eye, the 90-minute English-dubbed and censored version of Thriller, also free of animal violence.
Willie Dynamite. Gilbert Moses, 1974.
Beware My Brethren (The Fiend). Robert Hartford-Davis, 1972.
Double Face (A doppia faccia). Riccardo Freda (as Robert Hampton), 1969.
I Shot Andy Warhol. Mary Harron, 1995.
