88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: The Magnificent Cheng Cheh: The Magnificent Trio and Magnificent Wanderers (1966, 1977)
The Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema, Chang Cheh, had a career that spanned from the wuxia films of the 1960s to the martial arts movies of the 1970s, encompassing a wide range of other genres. The Magnificent Trio (1966): Starring Jimmy Wang Yu as swordsman Lu Fang, Lo Lieh as Yen Tzu-ching and Cheng Lui as […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Trunk to Cairo (1966)
June 28: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Cannon! I’ve watched 162/162 of all Cannon films — Golan and Globus era — as well as 56/56 of the Dewey/Friedland years, 106/246 of the Cannon Home Video releases, 6 out of the 12 movies Golan and Globus did before […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Tattooed Life (1965)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The Threat (1966)
Misawa (Rentaro Mikuni) is a post-war success. He works at a big ad agency and lives in a massive home with his wife (Masumi Harukawa) and their son. But then, two criminals — Kawanishi (Ko Nishimura) and Sabu (Hideo Murota) — show up and want to bring him into their plan, as they have kidnapped […]
Asia-Pol (1966)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: Incubus (1966)
Created by ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, Esperanto is supposed to be a universal second language for international communication. In English, the name means one who hopes and it’s the largest constructed international auxiliary language with a few thousand speakers. Zamenhof had some big dreams that go past making an easy and flexible language. […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: Blow-Up (1966)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. The first English language movie by Michelangelo Antonioni, who wrote the story with Tonino Guerra and […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: The Wild Angels (1966)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. The Wild Angels earned $7 million on a budget of $360,000, making it the highest-grossing low-budget […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza (1966)
Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura) has left behind being a killer and instead is wandering in search of freedom. That’s impossible, as he still has obligations, including one to a gang boss which forces him to kill a man named Mutsuda no Sanzo (Chiyonosuke Azuma). Seeking absolution, he listens to the man’s dying wish and vows to […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Murder Clinic (1966)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Murder Clinic was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 26, 1979 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, July 16, 1983 at 2:00 a.m. The Murder Clinic predates the Argento era of giallo, coming around the same time as the Bava instigation with The Girl Who Knew Too Much and the krimi films. Known […]
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