THE OTHER HELL is the U.S. title for L’ALTRO INFERNO (1981), a nunsploitation flick directed by prolific Italian genre director Bruno Mattei (credited on the back of VHS box as Stefan Oblowsky) and co-written by Mattei and Claudio Fragasso (he of TROLL 2 fame). Interestingly, Mattei and Fragasso were shooting a second nunsploitation film – THE TRUE STORY OF THE NUN OF MONZA (1980) – at the same time, in the same building, and using most of the same cast and crew.
The Other Hell - Full Artwork
THE OTHER HELL infamously features a scene where a nun boils a baby to death. But don’t worry… the baby gets even:
Goblin provided THE OTHER HELL‘s score, albeit inadvertently: Mattei and Fragasso lifted most of it from Joe D’Amato‘s BEYOND THE DARKNESS (1979). Still, it’s put to good use, as seen here (wait for the catchy groove to kick in at the 30-second mark):
This VHS was released by Inter-Light Video, and primarily uses just four colors (white, black, blue, and reddish-orange) to achieve a simplistic but striking end product. The blood-splattered nun in the bottom right corner is clearly terrified, and I like that it’s unclear whether the nun in the center of the box shares – or is the source of – that terror. The lightning bolt off the tip of the enlarged sword is another nice touch. Incidentally, the artist’s depiction of the terrified nun is a fairly accurate rendition of the source material, as shown below:
The Other Hell - Nun Comparison
More information about THE OTHER HELL can be found at the excellent (but NSFW) Nunsploitation.net.
Is it just me, or am I the only one that LOVES that people keep on thinking up cool new things involving STAR WARS. Looking around today I found a site that tells the weather in your city in terms of locations in the STAR WARS films. For instance, Mondo HQ is in Austin and as of writing this, it’s feeling a little bit like Naboo right now.
Then, over Butt-Numb-A-Thon weekend, our local maestro of the mattress Kayla Kromer debuted her follow up to the Hamburger Bed. She based it off of Han’s Millennium Falcon and got REALLY nerdy with the detail. It’s almost exact! She was even recognized by the official STAR WARS website and was a front page story!
And last but not least, there is the AMAZING 70 minute dissection of THE PHANTOM MENACE. I’ve embedded the first piece in this EPIC 7 part review. I’m not going to go into in depth, but set aside 90 minutes, turn your phone off and get ready to roll on the ground laughing.
Our good homey Alex Pardee sent over a link to his newest short film called THE WINTER STALKER. On this film he teamed up with director Stephen Reedy and utilized lots of innovative equipment such as a custom 1000 fps camera to shoot the slow motion scenes. Take a look at the film now!
They are also having a contest for this film where you can win a super limited artist proof of Pardee’s Escaped Conviction print. Check out Alex’s blog for more info.
We’re proud to release the first wave from our new THE WARRIORS series of posters. Today, we have entries by Tyler Stout and Pixar’s Eric Tan.
This is the first time we’ve worked with Pixar’s Eric Tan and here’s hoping that it won’t be the last. He brings a unique look at the world that Walter Hill put to film in 1978.
Poster by Eric Tan. 24″x”36″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 300.
Tyler Stout is back and this time he’s bringing it with two prints for the price of one! This is a split set that is printed with metallic inks. Beautiful in person! Like with all of Tyler’s posters, this won’t last long.
Poster by Tyler Stout. 16″x”24″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 450.
We are also offering Tyler’s print as an uncut sheet with a vertical sidebar featuring character illustrations of the main players in THE WARRIORS. Also printed with metallic inks.
Poster by Tyler Stout. 24″x”36″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 200.
Finally, we’re also offering a variant uncut sheet printed with gold metallic inks. Super limited edition on this one. This will go quick!
Poster by Tyler Stout. 24″x”36″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 100.
This weekend, I attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon at the Alamo Drafthouse. BNAT is a 24 hour celebration of Ain’t It Cool News’ birthday. You go in totally blind with no prior knowledge of the films that will be playing. Half are new and sometimes world premieres and half are repertory pictures. This year, we were treated to Martin Scorsese’s new film, SHUTTER ISLAND. Seeing this film made me go back and start digging for a film he had made that I had wanted to see for a long while and I actually found it on YouTube in its entirety. The film is called AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE. It’s essentially Scorsese and some friends pointing a camera at the VERY interesting Prince and letting him tell stories about his one-of-a-kind life. Most of you would probably recognize Prince as Easy Andy the gun dealer from TAXI DRIVER:
Terror Tuesday’s Zack Carlson and Weird Wednesday’s Lars Nilsen had been recommending this movie to me for a long time and I’m very foolish to just now be watching it. The stories he tells in this film are truly amazing and are so detailed they couldn’t be made up. I’m guessing Quentin Tarantino has seen this film before, too. I won’t say what makes me think that exactly, but if you watch the six part film below, you’ll know what I mean. Let me know what you think of it in the comments!
THE FIRST PIECE ISN’T ALLOWED TO BE EMBEDDED SO CLICK HERE TO VIEW IT. THE REST ARE BELOW.
Returning to the poster series is horror aficionado, Alex Pardee! Pardee decided that since the original TREMORS poster was a nod to the JAWS poster, he would do his version as a nod to the JAWS 2 poster. This poster is printed on black paper and is 9 colors!
Poster by Alex Pardee. Approximately 24″x36″ screen print on black paper. 9 COLORS! Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Printed at D&L Screen Printing in Seattle, WA.
BASKET CASE is one of Alex Pardee’s all time favorite films and for good reason! This is Frank Hennenlotter’s masterpiece. Not all horror fans have good taste, but Alex’s is impeccable.
Poster by Alex Pardee. 24″x36″ screen print. Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Printed by D&L Screen Printing in Seattle, WA.
If you’ve seen a picture of Alex Pardee at a gallery show in the last 15 years, there is a 99% chance that he was wearing a BASKET CASE shirt. Well, that shirt has been officially retired and this is his NEW BASKET CASE shirt of choice…after all, he designed it!
He’s here! Alex Pardee is in town right now and will be signing his new TREMORS and BASKET CASE posters tonight from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz downtown. Come and pick up one of these super limited posters and our new BASKET CASE t-shirt and meet the he-man that did them.
Stick around afterwards to check out the classic TREMORS at Terror Tuesday!
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
320 E 6th Street
Austin, TX 78701
