Kiss of the Tarantula

Kiss of the Tarantula (1975)

1975

John Bradley, a mortician lives in a large house with his cold, heartless wife and daughter Susan, where he runs his business . He is unaware that his wife is having an affair with his very own brother and they plot to k..l him for life insurance money. His daughter Susan, who has a fascination with tarantulas on the other hand finds out and decides to teach her mother a lesson, which results in her […]

Catch the Brotherhood (2019) aka Covet One’s Brother-in-law

2019

Haru, who runs away from home comes to her sister Yu-hee’s house to seek shelter. Yu-hee lives with her boyfriend In-gyu, who was a teacher of Haru in high school and whom she has a crush on in like forever. Haru starts seducing In-gyu and she also asks her boyfriend Jin-sang to seduce her older sister so that she will be tempted to cheat on In-gyu. The reason the day is ending like this is […]

Fire Line (1961)

1961

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss’s girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they mu..er the previous boss but things […]

Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin […]