https://vo.rs/tags/ken-russell/Latest from the Ken Russell desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/crimes-of-passion-ken-russells-deranged-erotic-satire/<p>Ken Russell was the great vulgarian of British cinema, a director who treated good taste as an enemy to be routed, and <em>Crimes of Passion</em> is one of his most gleefully deranged films. Released in 1984 through the low-budget outfit New World, written by Barry Sandler, it is an erotic thriller that keeps veering into satire, melodrama and outright hysteria, often within the same scene. Where Verhoeven would later film the genre with cold control and De Palma with self-aware technique, Russell attacks it with a flamethrower, and the result is a garish, uneven, genuinely strange picture that has aged into a cult object precisely because nobody else would have dared make it.</p>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000