Budd Wilkins
Professional Film Critic at Slant Magazine
Professional Film Critic at Freelance
Professional film critic & historian writing for @VideoWatchdog, @Slant_Magazine, and other publications.
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3 weeks ago |
slantmagazine.com | Budd Wilkins
Severin continues their good work in bringing hitherto largely unavailable Russ Meyer titles to home video in glorious new 4K restorations. Their latest releases are Motorpsycho, a gritty genre mashup that’s been unjustly dismissed as merely a “dry run” for the better known Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and the late-period gonzo comedy Up!, involving, among other things, leather gimp masks and an orgy-loving Adolf Hitler.
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3 weeks ago |
slantmagazine.com | Budd Wilkins
Lucio Fulci’s Don’t Torture a Duckling is a haunting depiction of a series of child murders. It’s also something of a rare bird within the giallo genre, as it doesn’t take place in an urban setting (think the second half of Sergio Martino’s Torso), and the shocking subject matter could be considered fairly radical for early-’70s Italy, given the repressive climate of the era fostered by religious institutions and political regimes.
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1 month ago |
slantmagazine.com | Budd Wilkins
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves is one of the great revisionist noirs, taking its place alongside Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. Like those films, it not only brazenly subverts the tropes of the classic Hollywood private eye film, but also uses the genre’s pervasive aura of moral corruption and social anomie to comment on the American scene in the wake of political scandals and the collapse of the 1960s counterculture into the rampant self-absorption of the Me Decade.
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1 month ago |
slantmagazine.com | Budd Wilkins
Genre-hopping maverick Elio Petri’s half-mod, half-madcap ’60s mindbender is set in a dystopian society obsessed with a government-sponsored game known as “The Big Hunt” that pits volunteer hunters against victims in mortal combat.
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1 month ago |
slantmagazine.com | Budd Wilkins
Between 1964 and 1981, Oldřich Lipský and Jiří Brdečka collaborated on a loose trilogy of films, each of which paid loving, yet subversive, homage to a strain of pop culture that would’ve been seen as hopelessly disreputable by the Communist authorities in the former Czechoslovakia. Lemonade Joe is a tribute to the John Ford western, while Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet tinkers with the conventions of the private eye film.
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Six-breasted Satanist biker chick with punk rock flair. Cheesy synth score. Gratuitous reincarnation. Trash-talking streetwalkers. And yet, despite some inadvertent hilarity, this thing manages to be mostly humdrum. https://t.co/VzTaLwkduL
