She Wants to Suck Your Blood by Tom Lisanti With the success of the Twilight books and movies and the hit HBO series True Blood, vampires are all the rage these days. Former '60s actress, the still beautiful Celeste Yarnall, will find time from promoting her new book Holistic Cat Care to be a special guest star at this year's Vampire's Con from August 14-16th in Hollywood where they will screen her cult horror movie The Velvet Vampire (1971). According to Celeste, the only known master print is part of Quentin Tarantino's private collection and he is graciously lending it for the occasion. Below Celeste remembers the making of the movie. In 1971's The Velvet Vampire (whose great tag line proclaimed, "She’s waiting to love you--to death!") Celeste plays the mysterious beauty Diana who after meeting married couple Susan and Lee Ritter (Sherry Miles and Michael Blodgett...
- 8/11/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
This July and August, the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles, California is screening a series of horror and thriller films directed by women called No She Didn't!: Women Exploitation Auteurs. From July 24th through August 8th, films like Terminal Island (directed by Stephanie Rothman), Bad Girls Go To Hell and Another Day, Another Man (directed by Doris Wishman), Gaitor Bait (directed by Beverly Sebastian), Bury Me an Angel (directed by Barbra Peters), and Slumber Party Massacre (directed by Amy Holden-Jones) will be screened in their full exploitation glory.
July 24th, Stephanie Rothman will make a rare appearance to introduce Terminal Island, her feminist exploitation flick...
In the 1970s and ‘80s, something funny happened on the way to the grindhouse. With women still sorely under-represented in the directorial ranks of the "New Hollywood," a number of women began working as writer-directors in the low-budget world of exploitation films.
July 24th, Stephanie Rothman will make a rare appearance to introduce Terminal Island, her feminist exploitation flick...
In the 1970s and ‘80s, something funny happened on the way to the grindhouse. With women still sorely under-represented in the directorial ranks of the "New Hollywood," a number of women began working as writer-directors in the low-budget world of exploitation films.
- 6/29/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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