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Unstable Ground Goes to Cannes with Offbeat Doc ‘Skull World’ (2012)

May 112012

MAY 11, 20120 - The upcoming counter‐culture documentary SKULL WORLD is now complete, and a new ‘Redband’ trailer has surfaced online and if featured below. The film will be represented by RAVEN BANNER ENTERTAINMENT at the upcoming Cannes Film Market (Marché Du Film). Festival programmers and distributors can obtain screeners from Raven Banner at ‘Riviera G31’.

Greg Sommer is an enigma wrapped inside a mystery, encased in a Jean-Jacket Vest. An enterprising man in his early 30s, Greg, and his alter-ego SKULL MAN, are at war. Box Wars that is.

Welcome to Greg’s world. A world of warriors, magic, and glory. A world of metal. Greg is building the Canadian-chapter of BOX WARS, an international underground movement of Continue reading »

Switchblade Wants to Brainwash You with Sultry Assassin 2

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May 112012

HOUSTON, May 11, 2012— Switchblade Pictures has announced the newest addition to the company’s growing line of live action features: SULTRY ASSASSIN 2 – NINJA BRAINWASH. The second in a new series of ero-ninja epics based on the novels by Junichi Yagami, SULTRY ASSASSIN 2 picks up where the previous installment, APHRODISIAC KILL, left off and is once again written and directed by Kenichi Fujiwara (ZOMBIE HUNTER RIKA, ZEROMAN R) and produced by the Take Shobo Company and Shintoho Pictures Co., Ltd. Akiho Yoshizawa (MAIDROID 1 & 2, INVADER 33D) reprises the titular lead role, joined once again by WKA and WPKC world kickboxing champion Yoshihiro Sato, also the two-time winner of the Japanese national K-1 tournament (2006, 2007.) Adding new faces to the Continue reading »

Film Review: Fresh Meat’s ‘Rat Scratch Fever’ (2011) Conjures Feverish Visions of Mattei’s Scurrying Scarefest

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May 082012

Brought back from a doomed space mission, an army of giant rats develop a big appetite for Los Angeles residents.

Well, the plot for this little nugget of joy was enough for me to buy the movie, especially after viewing the trailer that is a feast of loving cheese full of tacky models and full size mutant rat heads. Yes, I had to own it and as soon as the DVD arrived I sat down in front of the TV (to my girlfriends great pain. Not a fan of cheesy monster movies I’m afraid to say) and started to worry. Can this really be good? 105 minutes of low budget monsters can be painful if the heart isn’t in the right place. So, let’s get down to brass tacks. Rat Scratch Fever is essentially a throwback Continue reading »

“Hell on Wheels” Rolls onto DVD/BRD This Coming May 15th

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Apr 232012

Credited for “helping to modernize the Western genre” when it premiered in 2011, Hell on Wheels centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Currently reigning as the #2 rated show on AMC (with a series premiere that was the second highest rated AMC debut of all time), it is episodic TV at its very best. And before Season Two rolls into town this fall, home viewers can catch up on all the frontier drama in this star-studded smash with HELL ON WHEELS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, arriving on DVD and blu-ray this May, only from Entertainment One.

“Hell on Wheels” tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell Continue reading »

Switchblade Pictures Invites You to a Feast of Infernal Proportions

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Apr 102012

HOUSTON, April 10th, 2012 — Switchblade Pictures has tied up the rights to THE DEVIL’S FEAST, the suspense and shibari erotic thriller from the late, internationally acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Oniroku Dan (FLOWER AND SNAKE, ROPE HELL, LADY BLACK ROSE.) Widely considered to be Japan’s greatest master of dark erotica, Dan, who passed away in May of 2011, wrote over two hundred novels over his career, as well as the screenplays for many of Japan’s most successful and influential features, being especially known his popularization of the Japanese rope-bondage art of Shibari. Directed by Kenji Hanyu from an adaption by Hiroshi Yoshino, THE DEVIL’S FEAST was distributed theatrically in Japan by Shintoho and stars Chihiro Koganezaki (CRUEL RESTAURANT,) Yuya Matsuura Continue reading »

Taiwanese Actioner ‘Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale’ (2011) Heads to Theaters (April 27th)

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Mar 262012

OFFICIAL SELECTION: TAIWAN’S OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR THE 2012 ACADEMY AWARDS, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2011

Wei Te-sheng’s epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Evidence’ (2011) Presents a Familiar, and Entertaining, Found Footage Scenario

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Mar 222012

A group of youths go out into the woods to shoot a documentary. They moan and whine and even more so when strange things start to happen such as weird sounds in the night, dark animal shapes that are just glimpsed. Some of them want to leave but others don’t and it all leads to nastiness.

This was a description of just about every single Found footage movie that has poured out on DVD at the constant rate of camera prices going down. Most of these are frankly crap, made by people who have no real understanding of how such a movie works. We get a few gold nuggets such as [REC] and Cloverfield, but these are few and far between. Evidence starts out EXACTLY like you Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Japanese Wife Next Door’ (Inran naru ichizoku: Dai-ni-shô – zetsurin no hate ni – 2004) Sizzles with Passionate Neighborly Love

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Mar 152012

The Japanese Wife Next Door” by Yuraka Ikesime is the most Americanized ‘pink’ film I have reviewed thus far. I mean this is term of its storyline. The female lead, Reiko Yamaguchi, is even berated for been too ‘Americanized’ in her view of sexuality. Perhaps this observation is best left up to the viewer’s individual tastes and ideas. It is by far the least involved plot as far as story complexity and character depth of the other ‘pink’ films I have watched… but those factors aren’t necessarily why we are watching the film anyway. In any case, the story starts with ‘Sakura’ before she becomes the aforementioned wife next door.

We meet Takashi at the workplace where his colleges drag him out for a night of fun at a party. He meets two women, Sakura and Ryoko. Sakura comes across as Continue reading »

Shameless Gets Shameless with Sexploit Triple-Feature

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Mar 152012

You know those days when it seems like you just cannot get enough sleaze in your diet of dirt? Any exploitation and sleaze fan worth their weight in spent tissues knows nobody does sleaze like the UK’s Shameless Screen Entertainment and this upcoming release is no exception! Packed with three super-sexy, nasty Italian sexploitation films, the Shameless Sexploitation triple-feature release will ooze sex with the following films: LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS, SATAN’S BABY DOLL and THE BEAST IN SPACE!

Shameless Sexploitation will be released on DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment on 23 April 2012. Details can be found below Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘The Whisperer in Darkness’ (2011) Continues the Trend of Masterful Lovecraft Adaptations

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Mar 082012

2005 faux silent movie Call of Cthulhu stands as one of the best adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft, if not actually the best. It worked around the pitfalls of presenting material that really can’t be “shown” as if it was made during the heyday of silent cinema and did an exceptionally good job of it with surrealistic miniatures and a strong set design. Now comes the next production from the very same filmmakers and this time we move forward in time with an adaptation of the short story The Whisperer in Darkness as a 1930-1940ish horror movie. My expectations were sky high.

The original short story deals with strange and alien creatures haunting a farmer in the forests of Vermont and the revelation of their purpose as Continue reading »

Switchblade Pictures Gets Sultry with Fujiwara Action/Exploitationer

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Mar 022012

HOUSTON, March 2nd, 2012— Switchblade Pictures has announced the latest addition to the company’s expanding line of live action features: SULTRY ASSASSIN – THE APHRODISIAC KILL. Based on the sizzling line of “eroninja” novels by Junichi Yagami, APHRODISIAC KILL is the first film in a new series from writer/director Kenichi Fujiwara (Zombie Hunter Rika, Zeroman R and Grafreeter Toki.) Produced by the Take Shobo Company and Shintoho Pictures Co., Ltd, the erotic action thriller stars Akiho Yoshizawa (Maidroid 1 & 2, Invader 33D) as the titular female ninja Rin, while exploitation stalwart Kesuke (Cruel Restaurant,) former U.S. adult film star Asami and new ero-horror star Rin Kawai round out the cast.

When drugs, graft and the illegal sex trade, come together, the outcome can be deadly; especially in ancient Edo, where the law is dictated by he who wields Continue reading »

Film Review: Satô’s ‘New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave’ (Dorei – 2007) Based on the True Story of a Journey into the Bondage Underworld

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Mar 012012

This is the tale of a woman masochist who becomes a slave for a master. The film begins with the main character, the beautiful Rina (Rinako Hirasawa), hanging from a tree in the middle of a field. She tells us of her life in a flashback. I am not normally a fan of stories told from this point of view, but it works in this instance. Her monotone delivery actually adds to her character depth, as she is a slave. Now I must admit to some naivety in the S&M and bondage scene, so I was a little more interested into as why Rina was the way she was, then the sex, but the sex scenes were, well, captivating.

We meet young Rina who explains how she first discovered she was a masochist in high school. Her perverted math teacher can tell she is different from her classmates Continue reading »

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