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Keemat (India, 1973)
In 1967, Ravikant Nagaich, the director of Keemat, directed Farz. One year later, its star, Dharmendra, headlined Ankhen. Both were among the first A list Bollywood films to capitalize on the James...
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Silent but deadly
For the past few weeks, The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit has been welcoming Summer with visions of ice, sleet, hail, and permafrost. Beth and I have already both covered Gaddaar, The Horror!?...
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El Vampiro y El Sexo (Mexico, 1967)
One of the Mexican film industry’s worst kept secrets is how, during the 1960s and 70s, its B movies were sometimes spiced up for export with nude and softcore content that never would have flown past...
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MAIN HOON DRACULA!
On Monday night, The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit finally got around to something we've long been threatening to do: a watch- and tweet-along to Harinam Singh's masterpiece of unintentional...
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Prae Dum, aka Black Silk (Thailand, 1961)
Ratana Pestonji’s Prae Dum has been described as Thailand’s first film noir. The fact that it kicks off with a monk lecturing us about karma might also make it the first Buddhist noir. Typical of...
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Fantomas (France, 1932)
The 1932 version of Fantomas is far from the first film to feature the celebrated French antihero, though it is, as far as I know, the first sound film to do so. Based on the first Fantomas novel by...
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The Friends of 4DK: Museo del Horror (Mexico, 1964) by Denis Klotz
So I'm still relying on contributions from my friends to keep the content at 4DK rolling over while I evolve to the Next Stage of Human. This latest entry is by my magisterial M.O.S.S. colleague Denis...
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Dus Numbri (India, 1976)
Ah, the altruistic thief. So far Indian cinema has given us Jugnu, Guru, Fakira, and now Dus Numbri. Out of all of these, Dus Numbri might strike the most fear into the hearts of his less civic minded...
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Dark Rendezvous (Hong Kong, 1969)
It's paradoxical, but it's gotten to the point where, if I haven't in a while muddled my way through an un-subtitled foreign film in a hapless display of half baked assumptions and clumsy guestimation,...
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Turkey tome
As wide of an audience as the internet offers us, we bloggers know that we're nothing until someone wants to pay money to read our drivel in a bloody bewk.* Thus I am proud to announce that the Turkey...
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A honey of a sound.
Summer is here and it's time for breezy sounds. Hence my latest review for Teleport City is of Honey Ltd., a "lite psych" female vocal group whose lone and until now unreleased album was produced by...
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