Graveyard of Honor (2002)
There are decades between the worlds of Kinji Fukasaku and Takeshi Miike, but this is the movie that unites both of their lengthy resumes. They’re very different filmmakers, so seeing them both tell the story of Goro Fujita’s book and the life of Rikio Ishikawa. The original film takes place in the years following World […]
Graveyard Of Honor (1975)
Kinji Fukasaku (Battles without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale) adapted Goro Fujita’s gangster novel of the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa, a man who lives up to the lack of honor or humanity references by Fukasaku’s other film. How horrible of a person is Ishikawa? Within minutes of the opening credits, he […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: Empire of the Ants (1977)
DAY 21: MURDER SHE ROACH: One about pesky varmints, pests or creepy crawlies. If you love Joan Collins, you have to get used to her being abused. She gets a demonic baby that doesn’t want to be born, she’s choked out by Santa after getting that blood out of that nice white fur carpet and […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Freeway Maniac (1989)
There’s no way that the Gahan Wilson that wrote this movie is the Gahan Wilson who drew all those cartoons for Playboy, right? Because if he is, then this is a comedy and this movie makes a lot more sense. And if not, then I have no idea what the filmmakers were going for in this […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Last House on the Beach (1978)
Also known as La Settima Donna, Terror and Terror and The Seventh Woman, this is what happens when filmmakers dare ask, “What would happen if we mixed up The Last House on the Left with nunsploitation?” In Roberto Curti’s Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980, he writes that this film was filled with “a succession of grim, misogynist and exploitative scenes: […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
We’ve talked about the charmed life of Matt Cimber before. This is perhaps the best movie he made that doesn’t have Pia Zadora in it. It was written by Robert Thom (who also wrote Wild in the Streets), husband of star Millie Perkins, and supposedly based on elements from both of their lives. If that’s […]
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