Marcel Marceau Archives

Barbarella (1968)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 26, 2000Softcore Space Opera

Charmingly capricious and silly adaptation of the comic-strip with a wide-eyed Jane Fonda as the spacegoing heroine. Filled with some wonderfully naughty gags and a production and costume design scheme that goes to a gorgeously deranged excess

Director: Roger Vadim

Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, David Hemmings, Milo O'Shea, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 March 200013 October 2021 by Roog

Shanks (1974)

Rating: ★★

Oct 13, 2021Puppeteer Resurrects the Dead

The last film of gimmick master William Castle, a head-scratching oddity where mime artist Marcel Marceau plays a puppeteer who gains the ability to bring people back to life and control them like puppets

Director: William Castle

Actors: Marcel Marceau, Cindy Eilbacher, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa, …

Category: Horror

13 October 202113 October 2021 by Roog

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 7, 2026Director William Castle Documentary

A documentary about William Castle, the horror director of the 1950s/60s who specialised in sensationalistic promotional gimmicks. This does an excellent job in telling Castle's story and those behind his films

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz

Actors: Forrest J. Ackerman, John Badham, Diane Baker, Bob Burns, …

Category: Horror

7 April 20267 April 2026 by Roog