Recently, while I was doing some research on SATANIK, I found out that amazing character was known in some countries under the name of KILINK. I also discovered the trailer of a Turkish movie adaptation: KILINK ISTANBUL'DA. It looks like it's pretty fun to watch, there's some sort of fake batman (wearing Superman's logo for some reason) trowing a giant lolypop on his enemies. It seems that KILINK was such a hit there that they made ten other movies between 1967 and 1975. Nine of them were shot in 1967! KILLING/SATANIK was a great Italian character who appeared in a lot of photo novels. Our friend Jimmy Pantera is working on reprinting some of them.

Special post for Bill, the artist of LUCHADORES FIVE. He'll know why... I've never seen this movie but I'm dying to. It's called THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH. On IMDB, it's #69 of the bottom 1oo. It can only be a masterpiece.

Since I was talking about Russ Meyer, here's the intro of FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL. According to John Waters it's the best film ever. It features the incredible Tura Satana, "the utlimate femme fatale"!

Yesterday night I've watched Russ Meyer's BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS on IFC. I've already seen it in the past but I didn't remember it was so good. The look of the movie is fantastic, the music is beyond belief and the actresses have unbelievable... haircuts! I was surprised by the script who was almost moral which is weird for a Russ Meyer movie. Anyway, check it out, it's worth it.

Here's the car Fantomas was driving. It's based on an old Citroen DS.

The best villain in French pop culture is for sure Fantomas. Especially in the three André Hunebelle's movies. The look of the character was pure genius. The actor behind the mask was Jean Marais. A few weeks ago, Gobi did a nice piece of art of Fantomas.