Golok Setan (1983)
Barry Prima was one of the biggest stars of Indonesian cinema, appearing in several Jaka Sembung movies which were adaptions of a comic book, including Jaka Sembung (The Warrior), Si Buta Lawan Jaka Sembung (The Warrior Against Blind Swordsman), Bajing Ireng Dan Jaka Sembung (Jaka Sembung vs. the Ninja), Jaka Sembung Dan Bergola Ijo (Jaka Sembung and […]
DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE, FEATURING TWO ASYLUMS!
This Saturday at 8 PM east coast time at the Groovy Doom Facebook page, we’ve really gone, well, insane with two films set inside the walls of mental hospitals. First up, we return to SF Brownrigg’s unique brand of weirdness with… Don’t Look in the Basement is available on Tubi to watch! You know what would […]
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Have movies ever been as good before or since this one? Nope. They haven’t. The first of three Columbia Sinbad films, all boast the genius of Ray Harryhausen and his Dynamation stop-motion magic. As we meet Sinbad and his crew, they’re helping a magician escape a towering cyclops. Things don’t get any easier — or […]
Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1953)
For some reason, I’ve decided to see how Sinbad is treated all over the world, which means that I’ve now gone to Russia to watch Sadko, which was exported to the U.S. by Roger Corman in 1962. Ten minutes were cut, the movie was dubbed into English — the script adaptor was a young Francis Ford […]
The Sword of the Barbarians (1982)
Known in Italy as Sangraal, la spada di fuoco (Sangraal, the Sword of Fire), this is the first of two barbarian movies that Michele Massimo Tarantini made. For a director better known for his commedia sexy all’italiana films, this is pretty decent. By that, I mean that you have to have an affinity for Italian sword and […]
Quest for the Mighty Sword (1990)
If there’s a 12 step group for people who watch too many Joe D’Amato movies, well I should be the counselor, helping talk people off the ledge after they think they need to watch Erotic Nights of the Living Dead or Eleven Days, Eleven Nights or…hell, I can’t do it. For all people heap scorn on the […]
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