The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter is a stone-cold classic of the Shaw Brothers studios. It was directed in 1984 by master director Lau Kar-Leung (the 36th Chamber of Shaolin). It was made under a tragic circumstance, in that original leading man (who footage was shot with) Alexander Fu Sheng died in a car accident. The…
Blu-ray Review – Human Lanterns – 88 Films
Human Lanterns is the 1982 Swordplay/Martial Arts/Horror hybrid film by Sun Chung who in the prior year began dabbing in horror and martial arts with his film Revenge of the Corpse. The film follows Master’s Tan Fu and Lung who are ultra competitive with one another. Right now it is the yearly “Lantern” festival, and…
Blu-ray Review – Living Dead at Manchester Morgue – Synapse
Zombie cinema is an interesting thing. In the last few decades it seems the living dead have been everywhere on TV, in the movies, but for years after cinema began you would be lucky to see a long zombie on screens. Sure, throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s you would get an occasional White Zombie, King…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: The Ceremonies Must Die
In this entry, we return to the twisted world of Ramsey Campbell, check out supernatural detective adventures described by some as Sherlock Holmes Meets Scooby Doo, take a look at an alternate history of what REALLY killed the Donner party, read a wonderful collection of horror in the Civil War era and finally experience an…
Blu-ray Review – Premutos – The Fallen Angel (Unearthed)
Reflection of a horror junkie, I remember as a kid, or what felt like I was a kid being obsessed with getting my next horror hit. I would troll video stores throughout my just South of Tampa/St. Petersburg hometown trying to find horror films, I hadn’t seen, the most shocking, and weird I could find,…
Tabletop Review – Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Core Rulebook/Altdorf – Crown of the Empire
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play was Games Workshop’s answer to Dungeons and Dragons and other popular Tabletop RPG’s of the early 1980’s. Games Workshop started in 1975 as a distributor of tabletop games of all stripes, but soon found a market with both miniatures, and RPG’s, and eventually created their own with “Warhammer”, which was not…