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This site seeks to explore the less well travelled roads and avenues of the cinematic highway. The dust and tumbleweed of a ghost town full of obscure and forgotten gems awaits the more adventurous prospectors. In addition to regular forays off the beaten track you will find most popular genres covered, especially horror, science-fiction and those films that can be classified as cult. Popular trends and cycles in European and World cinema are regularly explored and often sit alongside towering examples of art cinema. Any comments and observations are always welcomed and appreciated. Without further ado buckle your seat belt, start your engine, and begin your journey down The Celluloid Highway.

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Flavia the Heretic (1974)

Dir: GIANFRANCO MINGOZZI Country: ITALY/FRANCE aka: Flavia, la monaca musulmana Flavia Flavia the Rebel Nun Flavia: Priestess of Viol...
Coming Attractions - Hands of the Ripper (1971) / Twins of Evil (1971)
The Big Racket (1976)

Dir: ENZO G. CASTELLARI Country: ITALY AKA: Il grande racket The Big Racket was director Enzo G. Castellari’s third poliziotteschi...
Fata Morgana (1971)

Dir: WERNER HERZOG Country: WEST GERMANY Fata Morgana is the most oblique and inscrutable of Werner Herzog’s early films. It is neither ...
Alligator (1980)

Dir: LEWIS TEAGUE Country: USA By accident rather than design I seem to be watching quite a few ‘Revolt of Nature’ horror films of late, ...
Night of the Big Heat (1967)

Dir: TERENCE FISHER Country: UK Although British horror spent most of its time in the sublime gothic landscapes of Hammer and its imitato...
Hitch-Hike (1977)

Dir: PASQUALE FESTA CAMPANILE Country: ITALY AKA Autostop rosso sangue Death Drive Hitchhike: Last House on the Left The Naked Prey ...
Contact (2009)

Dir: JEREMIAH KIPP Country: USA It is not very often that I get the opportunity to travel down some of the smaller intersections of The C...
The Food of the Gods (1976)

Dir: BERT I. GORDON Country: USA AKA: H. G. Wells' Food of the Gods Writer/director/producer/visual effects designer Bert I Gordon...
The Ray Bradbury Theater - Season 1 (1985-86)

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