It's on YouTube... Not a very talkative start, but this gets very good!
What did you all think? Any other recommendations from that time period? I love the conversational, naturalistic dramas with convincing characters.
Haven't seen it... never heard of it! I suppose I had ought to check this out!
I just assumed that you were talking to me! My first name is .... you guessed it!
Wanda.
Wah, your first name isn't Margo? I feel so deceived! Don't tell me your last name isn't Channing either?! I hoped there was some relation to Angela!
shareYIKES! I will say no more! Channing, it is!
Who the hell is Angela? I'm lost.....or just plain stupid.
Both, in my case! LOL!
So sorry to spoil the mystery. I hate that when it happens.
I think you'd like it, and it's in full on youtube.
shareAre you talking about the film "Wanda: The Sadistic Hypnotist" (1969)?
sharenot that one, the one made by Elia Kazan's wife.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpkk5YB6Nc&t=204s
there's the full movie...
I have it on dvd but haven't watched it in years. Will take another look. I believe the lead actress directed it too.
shareYup.
shareThat one (I haven't seen) - seems like a professionally made and serious piece of film, whereas the aforementioned "Wanda: The Sadistic Hypnotist" (1969) is basically a very silly slice of psychedelic darkly comedic exploitation movie trash, but Iactually DID like it, so if you're a fan of movies by Russ Meyer, as well as the "Olga" series and that of "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" and its sequels, I DO recommend giving it a look.
It also dares to strangely ask THIS question in a movie-esque sort of way - as it has both female AND a male "villains" in them doing wrong things, that is - if we must treat both groups of wrong doers the SAME, and the movie heavily implies - no, and the female wrong doers in the end are forgiven for their deeds and whats more - they let go (SPOILERS ALERT) at the end of their male hostage, give him CURE for his ordeal and he leaves HAPPILY without holding a grudge on them or feeling much humiliation HIMSELF, and the male scumbag gets returned to a psychiatric hospital.
Of course that movie wasn't meant to be realistic or life-affirmingly thought-provoking, but approached in the right spirit, its worth a look, but real life of course does NOT happen LIKE this...
I'll keep that movie in mind, thank you!
shareSomething ALSO tells me that the "Wanda" character of THIS movie, a year later by Barbara Loden, is mostly different from the one here, as she is mostly apparently in this 1970 movie a victim of difficult political and social circumstances, whereas in that movie, she was crazy but also a bit of a victim when that psycho loose cannon enters their castle.
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