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Fantasm, a review by Jimmy

Title : Fantasm (1976)

Overview
Group sex, religion, role reversal, lesbianism...FANTASM is a sexy, sin-sational comedy spoof of classroom sex education films. Join Professor Jurgen Notafreud as he takes you on an erotic visual tour of the top ten most erotic female fantasies.

My Impression
We start with a little trivia : The movie Phantasm is known with the title "The Never Dead" in Australia because of this movie. But the comparaison between those 2 movies stop there. This film is an Australian take at the movies made in the fifties and the sixties using a doctor to give them an educational value to pass the censorship board. The doctor who made the link between each short stories is a well known British actor : John Bluthal. His interventions present the case and give some psychiatric explications (don't take them seriously since it's as credible than the doctor intervention in Dammaged Goods). The cast is what make this movie great, this is a dream cast (at least for me) : Rene Bond, Uschi Digard, Mary Gavin, Serena, Maria Arnold (my love for her had started with this movie), Gretchen Rudolph and Roxanne Brewer. The only other movie that I own with an even better cast is A Touch Of Sweden that I've already reviewed here. Some segments are particullary good : Card Game, Wearing the Pants (that deal with my own fantasm) and Mother's Darling. In fact the only segment that I don't like is Black Velvet, because it's not original and the girl is really ugly (she looks like a transgender and not even a beautifull one like the Thai one).

Very good movie, not perfect but a nice way to pass 1h30.

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(From My Alphabet Marathon Review on November 7th, 2008)

Diary of a Madman, a review by GSyren

Diary of a Madman (883904-237914)

United States 1963 | Released 2011-01-28 on DVD from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

97 minutes | Aspect ratio Anamorphic 1.66:1 | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono

Directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe

My thoughts about Diary of a Madman:

A so-so horror movie that is saved largely by Vincent Price. I can't remember seeing Price give a bad performance, and he's good in this one, too. Based very loosely on "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, this seems to be an attempt to cash in on the Poe films by Roger Corman. I liked Nancy Kovack, too. I remember her from Jason and the Argonauts, and I have seen her in a few other minor film roles, and in some TV show episodes. I'm surprised she didn't have a better career. An OK movie, but Price's performance can't quite make up for the rather pedestrian direction. Still, if you're a Price fan (and shame on you if you're not) you should see it.

I rate this title

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on March 23rd, 2015)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom

1.11 You Must Remember This (1995-01-05)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), Peter Lefcourt (Writer)
Director: David Warry-Smith
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), David Marciano (Detective Ray Vecchio), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Daniel Kash (Detective Louis Gardino), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Catherine Bruhier (Elaine), Susan Gibney (Suzanne Chapin), Michael Shaner (Frank Bodine), Michael Donaghue (Hugo), Edgar George (Paramedic), Gina Bertoia (Officer #2)

An average episode, nothing really special. This episode sets up the Victoria arc later on in the season.

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(From "Due South" marathon on July 15th, 2009)