EUREKA! BLU RAY RELEASE: The Double Crossers (1976)
Director Cheng Chang-ho (King Boxer, Temptress of a Thousand Faces) moved from Korea to Hong Kong to spend several years at Shaw Brothers before moving to Golden Harvest, making five movies that were set in modern times. Detective Lung (Shin Il-ryong) is trying to find out who killed his father when he discovers that his father […]
UNEARTHED FILMS 4K UHD/BLU RAY RELEASE: The Guyver (1991)
How weird was it when The Guyver just randomly showed up in my local video store, unannounced, bringing Japan weirdness into my 19-year-old movie rental obsession life? When Dr. Tetsu Segawa steals the Guyver unit from the villainous company he’s been working for, his daughter’s boyfriend Sean accidentally finds it, puts it in his backpack […]
MVD 4K UHD RELEASE: Ghoulies II (1987)
Directed and written by Albert Band, this was the last Ghoulies movie to have any involvement from Charles Band, who sold the rights to Vestron Pictures to save Empire Pictures. The ghoulies hit the road in this one, hiding in a truck that’s carrying a dark ride for a carnival. If Satan’s Den doesn’t start bringing […]
SYNAPSE 4K UHD RELEASE: Demons 2 (1987)
Let’s just assume that the events of Demons actually happened, as this movie does. Released just seven months after the original, this movie opens with the residents of a high-rise apartment building watching a movie dramatization of the events that took place in that film. They watch as several teenagers trespass into the closed-off city that […]
SYNAPSE 4K UHD RELEASE: Demons (1985)
They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs. With that line, you know that what you’re about to watch better be the most mind-blowing horror film possible. Good news — Demons is all of that and then some, the kind of movie that has everything that I watch movies for. I can’t […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Janie (1970)
Findlay Week (August 18 – 24) Husband and wife Michael and Roberta Findlay made mean-spirited films. They collaborated on films like Take Me Naked, The Ultimate Degenerate, and the notorious Flesh Trilogy, plus they actually looked like criminals – walking mug shots! You expect to see them glowering on the cover of one of those […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Sweet Punkin I Love You….(1976)
Findlay Week (August 18 – 24) Husband and wife Michael and Roberta Findlay made mean-spirited films. They collaborated on films like Take Me Naked, The Ultimate Degenerate, and the notorious Flesh Trilogy, plus they actually looked like criminals – walking mug shots! You expect to see them glowering on the cover of one of those […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Camp (2023)
Directed by Josh Yunis and written by David Kirkeby, Sarah Kruchowski and Jason Romaine, Camp attempts to be a throwback to the summer teen sex comedies that I grew up with, yet with its head and heart fully aware of the changes that have happened since then. The thing you may not realize is that this was […]
SHAWGUST: Black Lizard (1981)
On their wedding day, Ting Tzu-chu (Helen Poon Bing-Seung) explains to her husband — detective and martial artist Long Fei (Derek Yee) — the ritual that Xiao Lik (Yueh Hua) is leading the villagers in. They are making a peace offering to the Black Lizard, a centuries old demon that comes back every three years to take […]
SHAWGUST: The Brave Archer 2 (1978)
Other than replacing Tien Niu with Niu Niu in the role of Huang Rong, Keung Hon taking over the role of Liang Ziweng and Norman Chu becoming Yao, the sequel to The Brave Archer keeps much of the same cast and feel as it continues to adapt Louis Cha’s The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Huang […]
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