Golgo 13 (1973)
Filmed almost entirely in the Imperial State of Iran, with an almost entirely Persian supporting cast, the first live action adventure of Duke Togo — Golgo 13 — stars Ken Takakura, considered the Clint Eastwood of Japanese film. The world’s best killer, Golgo 13 has been recruited to kill Max Boa, who leads a worldwide […]
HOT DEATH! COLD DEATH! DOUBLE FEAR ON THE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!
Bill, Gigi Graham and I are all back this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. And oh man — we’re bringing the wild movies. Up first is one of those movies they always warned you about, a video nasty that more than lives up to its name, Don’t Go in the […]
Golgo 13: The Professional (1983)
“…” Man, if you were a kid in the 80s, you were lucky if you had Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode for the NES, a game that somehow had sniper rifle murder, conspiracy, bioterrorism and a sex scene that gives you back your energy. How did we get this game? After two live action attempts* at telling […]
Ghost Story: Episode 4 “Bad Connection”
If you’ve watched enough made-for-TV horror, you may have asked, “How long will it be until Karen Black shows up as part of Ghost Story?” Good news. She’s here. In this episode — written by John McGreevey (The Death of Richie) and horror master Richard Matheson and directed by Walter Doniger, who made a lot of […]
Dark Water (2002)
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Akai bôkô (1980)
In my experience, performance — whether in a band or as a pro wrestler — is a lot of things you don’t want to do at all. In fact, a good portion of it is the kind of work that you wouldn’t want to do if you were being paid for it. Non-stop practice in […]
Future Warrior Amazons (2017)
If you thought there was nowhere else to go after Future Century Amazons, oh man, well, there is. Put on your PPE, galoshes and grab a barf bag, I guess. Remember how Dr. Maki Amamiya had come to Amazon City to become the new artificial insemination expert? Well, that’s about when a Christian missionary named Kenta […]
Future Century Amazons (2017)
I think director and writer Naoyuki Tomomatsu has some issues. I mean, who would make this movie? A film in which radical feminism has caused the downfall of civilization, with the few remaining humans live in various settlements with vast fobidden zones between them filled with mutant creatures, all while the warring female factions battle […]
Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Sure, Lily C.A.T. is Alien, but isn’t Alien also Queen of Blood, Planet of the Vampires and It! The Terror from Beyond Space? Hey, what if they throw in some of The Thing too? The Syncam Corporation is investigating a new planet and has hired the deep-space cruiser Saldes to take a hypersleep trip of 20 years — which will feel like a […]
Sonatine (1993)
This Japanese yakuza gangster-noir written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano was his response to Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. Courtesy of Quentin Tarantino’s fandom, the film found its way to U.S. theater — art house — screens in 1998 via his Rollling Thunder-imprint, which subsequently released it to home video in 2000. Of Kitano’s 18-film writing-directing […]
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