Weird Wednesday: Savage Streets (1984)
If I were writing this review at any time other than 4:40 AM and had more than two hours of sleep in the past two days, I wouldn’t be full of hyperbole, pacing through my house, mumbling to myself things like, “Savage Streets is the greatest movie ever made!” and “Why did they make any […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Secret Executioners (1982, 1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Secret Executioners was on USA Up All Night on September 7, 1990. Director Lee Doo-yong’s The Trouble-Solving Broker was made in 1982, but then Godfrey Ho got his hands on it and cut 18 minutes away while adding in a ton of new fighting footage. That means, if I do my math correctly, more than […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Mugsy’s Girls (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mugsy’s Girls was on USA Up All Night on June 26, 1992; July 14, September 3 and December 3, 1993; February 5, April 4 and May 7, 1994. “Everybody knows wrestling is fixed.” Also known as Delta Pi, this is a movie where the stakes are simple, classic and absurd. A group of sorority sisters discovers […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Nine Demons (1984)
Look, when a movie has two martial artists named Joey (Tien-Chi Cheng) and Gary (Lu Feng), well, that’s all I need. Except that this movie is really as wild as it can get, a low-budget film from Chang Cheh who decides that if he can’t get enough money to make a movie, he’s going to […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Tuareg The Desert Warrior (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tuareg The Desert Warrior was on USA Up All Night on October 19, 1990. After conquering the early 80s with a run of legendary, high-octane Eurotrash classics, Italian action auteur Enzo G. Castellari decided to pivot. He traded in his gritty urban dystopias for the vast, sun-baked dunes of the Sahara, aiming for something with […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Joy of Sex (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy of Sex was on USA Up All Night on June 17, 1994; February 11 and October 27, 1995 and February 17 and April 12, 1996. Did everybody’s parents have a copy of Dr. Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex? What a frightening book that was, what with its Chris Foss (Flash Gordon, Guardians of the […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Blade Master (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Blade Master was on USA Up All Night on June 15, 1989 and March 3, 1990. Joe D’Amato wanted to make a prehistoric movie like Quest for Fire called Adamo ed Eva that read a lot like 1983’s Adam and Eve vs. The Cannibals. However, once he called in Miles O’Keefe to appear in the film, […]
JUNESPLOITATION/ARROW BOX SET RELEASE: Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits!: Drunken Master II (1994)
DAY 25: Jackie Chan! It took America too long to get behind Jackie Chan. When this was released, Jackie Chan was already a global icon, but he decided to return to his roots in traditional, old-school kung fu for the first time since 1983’s Fearless Hyena Part II. He teamed up with the legendary director […]
CULT EPICS BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Island Closest To Heaven (1984)
While many know Nobuhiko Obayashi for the masterpiece House, he spent much of the 80s perfecting the Idol Movie, a series of films designed to showcase young starlets. But because it’s Obayashi, you’re not just getting a pop song and a smile. You’re getting a cosmic meditation on grief drenched in postcard-perfect surrealism. Mari Katsuragi […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Lost Empire (1984)
It’s time to stop fighting it and just embrace the neon-soaked, low-budget glory. I am a Jim Wynorski apologist. It’s a support group with surprisingly high membership. Wynorski is the ultimate cinematic high-wire act: a man who realized early on that if you have enough smoke machines, a few former Playmates and a script that […]
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