Anguish

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings' • Anguish

We wrap up our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a film that took us both by surprise. It’s Bigas Luna’s 1987 horror film Anguish, and let’s just say it’s one about which you should go into knowing as little as possible.

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Strait-Jacket

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings' • Strait-Jacket

We continue our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a bloody fun film about an axe-wielding mother back for some family bonding. It’s Joan Crawford in William Castle’s 1964 film Strait-Jacket!

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The Pit and the Pendulum • Member Bonus

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: Roger Corman • The Pit and the Pendulum • Member Bonus

We continue our season-long member bonus Roger Corman series with a look at one of the eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptions he did with American International Pictures, their incredibly successful film The Pit and the Pendulum.

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Shattered

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings' • Shattered

We return to our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a film that certainly lives up to the idea of having plenty of twists and turns. We’re talking about Wolfgang Petersen’s 1991 film Shattered.

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A Dandy in Aspic

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: 1968 Crime Films • A Dandy in Aspic

We wrap up our 1968 Crime Films series with a conversation about Anthony Mann’s final film, A Dandy in Aspic, in which Laurence Harvey plays a double agent hired by one side to kill his other side’s alter ego.

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The Split

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: 1968 Crime Films • The Split

We continue our 1968 Crime Films series with a heist film that goes awry when the stolen money disappears. Plus, it’s got a fantastic cast! It’s Gordon Flemyng’s film The Split.

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The Boston Strangler

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: 1968 Crime Films • The Boston Strangler

We return to our 1968 Crime Films series with a wild cinematic experience that’s more fiction than fact in its portrayal of real events, but still an awesome film to check out. It’s Richard Fleischer’s film starring Tony Curtis as ‘The Boston Strangler.’

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Grand Slam

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: Heist Films • Grand Slam

We end our heist film series with what’s advertised as ‘Rififi in Rio’, a film that sets our criminals stealing $10 million in diamonds during the Carnaval parade in Rio de Janeiro. It’s Giuliano Montaldo’s 1967 film ‘Grand Slam.’

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Death Race 2000 • Member Bonus

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: Roger Corman • Death Race 2000 • Member Bonus

We continue our Roger Corman member bonus series with a look at the film he produced for first-time director Paul Bartel, a bloody comedy satire on politics, fandom, the media, and of course killer car races – it’s the 1975 film Death Race 2000.

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After the Fox

The Next Reel • Season 14 • Series: Heist Films • After the Fox

We continue our heist films series with Vittorio de Sica’s move away from his neorealist films with a Neil Simon-written heist comedy starring Peter Sellers as a thief who poses as a film director to pull of a job – it’s the 1966 film “After the Fox.”

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