FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Chop and Steele (2022)
I have made no secret of my devotion — obsession? — with the Found Footage Festival, the life mission of Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher to take VHS tapes and remix them to reach us across the decades. So much of my conversational moments daily are made up of things I learned from these guys, […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Country Gold (2022)
Mickey Reece makes a movie a year and every time, it’s something different. Like the exorcism movie Agnes or Climate of the Hunter, a movie that plays with horror and age. This time, he’s made a comedy — kind of, as always the genre isn’t always absolute — about Troyal Brux (Reece), a country singer on the rise […]
TUBI PICKS: Week 19
What should you be watching on Tubi? I have some ideas. 1. Skullduggery: TUBI LINK Coming at the center of the Venn diagram for the slasher boom and the Satanic Panic* Skullduggery is straight out of Canada and straight up nuts and I wonder, why is no one going crazy about this movie? Oh yeah — […]
Jin fen you long (1982)
Released under so many names — Matching Escort, Fury of the Silver Fox, Wolf-Devil Woman 2, Wolfen Ninja, Venus the Cavalier, Venus the Ninja and Venus: Wolf Ninja — some of those are due to director, producer and star Pearl Chang, who was also the auteur who made Wolf Devil Woman even if this was made a year […]
Erotic Ghost Story 2 (1991)
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Feng lei mo jing (1972)
The Devil’s Mirror is the story of the Jiuxian Witch and her Bloody Ghouls Clan battle two other clans who both possess magic mirrors known as the Wind and Thunder Magic Mirrors. If the three-eyed witch can get both of those mirrors, she can break down the walls of the tomb of Emperor Wu, take […]
Xie ying wu (1981)
The bloody parrot of this film’s title is a legen of a bird that was born on the devil king’s birthday when all of the lesser demons gave him their blood, creatin a bird that grants three wishes to whomever discovers it. Those wishes, however, have a tendence to go poorly. One exampe is Guo […]
Ninja Commandments (1987)
According to Taiwan Black Movies in Variety, this genre of films was “Known at the time by the polite description “social-realist crime films,” the genre was a broad church, combining over-the-top sexual and physical violence with stories involving either political or economic gangsterism.” I’m telling you this because IFD Films usually involved filmmakers like Godfrey Ho taking […]
Hou wang da zhan tian bing tian jiang (1979)
Monkey King With 72 Magic is another take on Journey to the West and as you may have learned this week, that means monsters against our hero Monkey King (Ting Wa-Chung). This one takes place before that, so you’ll learn how he was born from a large stone on the mythical Flower Fruit Mountain and tells how […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You! (2012)
Tutor and rocker Neil Stuart (co-writer Matt Farley) has returned to the small New England city of Rivertown that he left in disgrace after growing obsessed by a riverbeast. His fiancee is marrying someone else. His enemy, reporter Sparky Watts, is still hounding him to no end. And maybe his new student, the daughter of […]
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