Sisworo Gautama Putra directed Jaka Sembung, which I positively reviewed, and continued to make insane Indonesian movies. “The Hungry Snake Woman” is no exception. The movie opens just tossing the audience into the action. A gang of almost naked women is chased by a man with a black powder rifle. The women lure him into…
Tokugawa Sex Ban [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1972 in Japan. A movie comes out that is hard to classify: historical epic, sexploitation film, political satire. The basic plot is a high-born lady marries a country lord. Both are inexperienced in sexual matters and the consummation does not go well. In an effort to “train” the lord, his advisors hire…
Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens [Severin] Blu-ray review
Russ Meyer is an interesting character. Nicknamed the Walt Disney of the skin flick, he made strange, but fun, soft-core films. “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens” (BTVOTUV) is no exception. The 93-minute film features a lot of strange characters in “Small Town, U.S.A”. Opening with the narrator, a kindly old man with a…
Bart La Rue’s Satan War [AGFA] Blu-ray Review
Bart La Rue was a character actor that was in an astounding number of television shows in the 60s and 70s (Mission Impossible, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, Bonanza) who had a deep, resonant voice made for broadcasting or the stage. Something he always wanted to do was direct. In his short directing career, he…
Blood-a-Rama Triple Frightmare 2 [AGFA + Something Weird] Blu-ray review
The triple feature, ahem, sorry. I meant to say triple frightmare is comprise of three movies contained in this release and are all very short, one under thirty minutes and two around an hour. The run time is padded a little with AGFA’s always entertaining drive-in mode where they intersperse clips and trailers from old…
The Howling 2: Your Sister Is a Werewolf [Vinegar Syndrome] 4k/Blu-ray review
In 1981, The Howling and An American Werewolf in London brought werewolves back into the zeitgeist and studios were seeing dollar signs. The Howling was a Joe Dante film that was a enough of a success to land him the gig directing Gremlins. Obviously, The Howling needed a sequel. Enter Australian filmmaker, Philipe Mora. What…
The Ghost Dance [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
The late 70s and early 80s were considered the golden age of the slasher film. With a saturated market of low-budget slashers, a lot of well-crafted horror movies did not get the attention that they normally would have. The Ghost Dance is a slasher that revolves around a Native American killer with supernatural elements that…
The Cat and The Canary (1927) [Eureka! The Masters of Cinema Series] Blu-ray Review
The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 silent film based on a stage play by John Willard. The film version is described as being in the “horror/comedy” genres. There are multiple film adaptations of this play, one including Bob Hope. The 1927 version was directed by Paul Leni, a German director responsible for Waxworks,…
The Warrior and the Blind Swordsman/The Warrior and the Ninja [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The Warrior series started off with a bang. When I saw the opportunity to review the sequels, I jumped at the chance. Mondo Macabro released them both in a Blu-ray double feature. The first of these sequels is “The Warrior and the Blind Swordsman”. The character of Jaka Sembung is back but the movie focuses…
The Warrior (1981) [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The Warrior is an Indonesian fantasy/action film about a noble warrior (Jaka Sembung) fighting for all of the right reasons against the oppressive Dutch Colonial Government. Not only is he a super-human fighter, he is also a symbol to the people struggling against colonial rule. Unable to capture the resistance leader, the Dutch representative hires…