Film Review: Cash Chin Man-Kei’s CAT III Classic ‘The Eternal Evil of Asia’ (Nan yang shi da xie shu – 1995) Still Delights with Sleaze & Frights

 Asian Cinema, B. Woodell, CAT III, Demons, Erotic, Exploitation, Fantasy, Horror, Martial Arts, Revenge  No Responses »
Jan 282012
 

the-eternal-evil-of-asia The Eternal Evil of Asia is another wonderfully produced category III horror/voodoo/sex/comedy romp produced by legendary Wong Jing. Being one of the most prolific filmmakers in Hong Kong, anyone who knows what Wong is capable of, will have an inkling as to what they should expect in this hilarious tale.

Four friends travel to Thailand on a bachelor party excursion, but the trip goes awry when they befriend a local wizard and accidentally kill his sister. They return to Hong Kong, but the wizard follows and begins picking them off one by one. The wife to be has to decide to make a personal sacrifice to save the man she loves and her brother Continue reading »

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Film Review: McIntyre’s ‘The Los Angeles Ripper’ (2011) May Have a Dull Edge but Still Cuts Deep

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Jan 222012
 

the-los-angeles-ripper Cute, chaste and innocent Kristy White (Celeste Martinez) moves to Los Angeles from rural Ohio in order to pursue a career as a metal singer. Staying at the home of her lump-on-the-couch Aunt Peggy (Beverly Bassette) and her self-obsessed party animal cousin Angel (Chase Monroe) while taking vocal classes, Kristy is the embodiment of fresh meat dropped into the shark tank that is L.A.

Meanwhile, L.A. local Grahm (Randy Tobin) spends his days wandering the streets of Los Angeles, enjoying the local color, selling and imbibing in the local drugs, picking up and having sex with the local hotties, and brutally killing them for kicks.

On a night out clubbin’ with Angel, Kristy is introduced to Grahm when Angel scores some “party favors” from him. Grahm takes an instant liking to Kristy, and, as he Continue reading »

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Film Review: Italian Splatter Films Shake in the Demonic Presence of ‘Adam Chaplin’ (2011)

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Jan 112012
 

adam-chaplin My first encounter with this movie was through this trailer which at a first glance (well, the first minute of it at least) looked kind of cheesy, that very particular cheese that so many low budget shot on video gore movies tend to be full of. You know, just a movie without ever reflecting on narrative etc, just pour on the gore. This can be good in itself but very straining on your patience. But then came a couple of really striking scenes and I knew I had to have this. I hopped on the filmmaker’s website and about five minutes after watching the trailer I had ordered it. It arrived yesterday (a bit smashed up due to the fucking post office but working just fine) and I popped it into the DVD player to hopefully get an entertaining experience. And by God it is!

Adam Chaplin might actually be one of the best comic book movies I have ever seen. It is not based on a comic but the story, the visuals and most importantly – the violence, are all as if torn Continue reading »

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Film Review: There’s No Happy Honeymoon Awaiting These ‘Brides of Blood’ (1968)

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Jan 062012
 

brides-of-blood Really, do I need to review this movie? Just look at those lovely pictures… they tell you everything you need to know. Blood, boobs and glorious rubber monsters. This is one of these movies that leave you with fluttering butterflies in your stomach.

A nice group arrives at an island in the Philippines to teach the natives the ways of civilization and look for any traces of nuclear testing. There’s the elderly professor, his horny wife that screws anything that moves (except for her husband) and the young guy who would like to screw everything that moves and inevitably will get into the pants of the chiefs wife. It seems the natives have a lottery going on for the village’s young females and the winner will be tied to a pole while an Continue reading »

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Film Review: Castro’s ‘The Summer of Massacre’ (2011) Breaks Kill Records & Hearts

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Dec 132011
 

summer-of-massacre Well for all of you horror fans clamoring for something different, unique? Original? Here ya go, Joe Castro give us an anthology, art house, slasher that broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest body count (155) in a film! You go Joe! No really, in all seriousness, this is a very original piece of work. This is also a gorehound’s delight. You will all be pleased to know that mixed in with the cg (because I know you were concerned) are enough practical effects to please any old school fan. Here the cg is used to enhance some of the meanest and most creative, some even funny kills to be put on screen. The CG is also used with art house flair and peppered throughout giving all of the stories an experimental feel. It needs Continue reading »

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Film Review: Lieh Lo’s ‘Black Magic with Buddha’ (Nao mo – 1983) Combines Outlandish Gore & Stunning Amounts of CAT III Sleaze

 Asian Cinema, CAT III, Exploitation, Extreme, Fantasy, Hong Kong, Horror, J. Andersson, Revenge  No Responses »
Nov 282011
 

black-magic-with-buddha I’ve learned something today. Evil Thai mummy brains aren’t something you should mess about with; it’s as simple as that. And if you do feel like keeping them for your own personal gain, make sure you feed them regularly. They tend to get rather mad if they are hungry. Like any other pet really. That’s something the protagonist of low budget Hong Kong sleaze Black Magic with Buddha learns when he goes to Thailand, takes home a brain with magic powers to use for his own personal gain. You see, our hero is somewhat of a looser. Only somewhat though, for a CAT III hero he is actually fairly likeable. He means well I suppose, he just doesn’t seem to think of the consequences of what he is doing, and the fact that it kills his sister and his wife’s family, well, he never seems to care that much about it. He comes off as Continue reading »

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Film Review: Nishimura’s ‘Helldriver’ (2010) Drives Levels of Splatter & Comedy to New Heights

 Action, Asian Cinema, B. Harris, Comedy, Exploitation, Extreme, Horror, Japan, Sci-Fi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Zombies  1 Response »
Nov 222011
 

helldriver After a meteorite makes impact with Japan, it sends alien spores into the atmosphere, infecting humans with a virus that mutates them into flesh-eating fiends with little horns protruding from their foreheads. Japan, as the world knows it, ceases to exist and in its place is an island nation divided into two parts by a massive wall, effectively separating the living from the infected (read: zombies). To make matters worse, the horns of the dead are being illegally harvested, dried, ground up and sold on the black market as a new drug.

Factions within the current Japanese government are intent on halting the advance of the horde by putting together a special team, lead by Kika, and sending them into the infected zone. Their mission Continue reading »

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Film Review: The Controversial Film ‘Territories’ (2010) Questions The Meaning of Patriotism in Post-9/11 America

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Nov 222011
 

territories Following a weekend at a wedding in Canada, a bunch mates get pulled over when they drive their minivan across the border to America. Two customs officers ask to see Jalil’s (Michael Mando) driving license and move back to their car to check him out. When they point out that the youngsters are driving with a bust front light, Jalil tells them that they hit a deer a while back, which triggers the officers

Despite constant claims of “only trying to do our job” the custom officers become increasingly agitated and act more and more threatening towards the group of youngsters. When one of the youths, Tom (Alex Weiner) starts Continue reading »

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Film Review: Miike’s ‘Imprint’ (Revisited – 2006) Gives Showtime Ent. & Cable TV Weak Knees with Disturbing Content

 Asian Cinema, B. Woodell, Extreme, Horror, Japan, Takashi Miike, Television  No Responses »
Nov 192011
 

imprint Takashi Miike is one of those directors where if he makes something brilliant, it’s brilliant. If he makes something horrible, it’s torture to sit through. But then there’s films he makes, that you have no idea what to make of them, or have an inkling to the way you feel about what you’re watching. Imprint, from the Masters of Horror series, falls in the last category as I’m still pondering what it was exactly that I watched and have no real opinion on if I enjoyed it or not.

Christopher (Billy Drago) travels back to Japan in search of a woman he once fell in love with, Komomo (Michie). He chooses a girl (Youki Kudoh) who stays in the shadows due to her deformed face. She tries to please Christopher Continue reading »

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Film Review: ‘Humongous’ (1982) Lives Again Thru Scorpion Releasing’s “Katarina’s Nightmare Theater” Series

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Nov 182011
 

humongous The Canadian Tax shelter films of the 70s and early 80s has given the world quite a few fun excursions into horror, movies like Rituals, Black Christmas and not to mention all the early Cronenbergs are still true classics in my book. It all fell apart in 1980 when it became obvious that a lot of movies were made just to make a quick buck through some loopholes but not before Paul Lynch gave us Humongous, a movie available on VHS in crappy, very dark transfers where you aren’t able to see jack shit. Until now.

When the movie starts we are at a party at a lake house sometime during the 50s and a woman is running from an unwanted suitor who strikes her Continue reading »

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Film Review: Chandon’s ‘Inbred’ (2011) Kicks Hillbilly Horror Up Ten Terrifying Notches

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Nov 042011
 

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Watching Alex Chandon’s new movie Inbred starts out as a very familiar experience. Let’s see if you’ve heard any of this before: Two social workers are taking a group of teens with different problems out on a trip north. North here means a rundown little town full of people with strange teeth and staying at an old house that hasn’t been lived in for decades. We all know where this will lead, and it does. It doesn’t take long before the locals and the city folk clash, resulting in injury and death. But this is where Inbred really takes off. Yes, we’ve seen it all before but rarely as fun as this. Instead of just pounding us with the latest ways of displaying that old “favorite”, torture porn, Chandon takes his cliché plot and infuses it with a lovely black and absurd sense of humor that reminds me a lot of the Belgian movie Calvaire with a dash of Monty Python, especially in the scenes where the locals Continue reading »

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Film Review: Lugones’ ‘The Devil’s Toy’ (2010) Packs a Diabolical Punch for a Short Film

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Nov 032011
 

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The Devil’s Toy has sat hidden away at the back of Grandpa’s (Joe Capozzi) closet since his return from tour of duty in WWII. Acquired for a horrifying price during the raid of a Nazi concentration camp, he’s kept it safely concealed for decades. But one night, his young grandson (Liam Makrogiannis) and his best friend (Alex Marshall) decide to sneak it out of the closet and find out for themselves what’s kept inside the mysterious old box…

Ironically, one of the most common annoyances encountered in the medium of The Short Film is that most short films are too damned long. I’d say that a good 75% of all the short films I’ve ever seen could’ve used one final polish with a pair of scissors. It’s a tricky medium, and very difficult to get right from a Continue reading »

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