The Rise of Sir Longbottom (2021)
Pocketman and Cargoboy — from 2018’s Pocketman and Cargoboy — and Section 62 are back to face the threat of the 155 IQ man, Sir Longbottom. This has been described as a kung fu adventure, but I wouldn’t go expecting Tony Jaa. Beyond the name Longbottom, this movie has some similarities to the world of […]
JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
In 2009, director Quentin Tarantino placed JSA amongst his top twenty films since 1992. Directed by Park Chan-wook, who also made Oldboy, this film tells the tale of a fatal shooting within the DMZ that exists between the borders of North and South Korea. At one point the highest-grossing film in Korean history, JSA is the story of […]
Las Momias de Guanajuato (1972)
The Mummies of Guanajuato are real and are the naturally mummified remains of a number of people who died from cholera in 1833. They were disinterred between 1870 and 1958 as relatives of these people could not afford the yearly tax for their burial and the bodies were mixed to a nearby building. For some […]
Terror, Sexo Y Brujeria (1968 and 1984)
This is a movie that raises so many questions. Here’s the first: Why did I list it as being made in 1968 and 1984? That’s because it was originally Cautivo del Mas Allá (Captives of the Beyond) when it came out in the late 60’s. In that movie, Rafael Portillo (who made the Aztec Mummy films, […]
El Signo de la Muerte (1939)
The SIgn of Death comes from way back in the past of Mexican genre cinema, yet director Chano Urueta would make movies the whole way up to 1974, including Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power and the amazing El Baron del Terror (he’s also in Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia). Here, he’s […]
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