Vinegar Syndrome released a double feature of two extreme movies: Devil Fetus and Her Vengeance. I watched “Devil Fetus” first. Released in 1983 and running 92 minutes it’s a disgusting, but low-budget fantasy/horror film. A woman has an antique vase that contains a demon which has sex with her. The movie does not waste time….
Flesh+Blood [Capelight] Blu-ray Review
Martin (Rutger Hauer) is a mercenary who helps a crooked nobleman, Arnolfin win a battle. During the celebration, the mercenaries are betrayed. Disarmed and with their payment confiscated, they are driven away. A religious member of the mercenaries, named “the Cardinal” proclaims signs from God that lead them to believe that Matin will be successful…
The Seventh Curse/Witch from Nepal [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
The Seventh Curse is framed with an older man (the books series’ author) being prompted by party guests to tell some stories. The movie shows Dr. Yuan acting as a hostage negotiator, leading to a huge gun fight between terrorists and a swat team. Yuan seems to be a trained surgeon and soldier as he…
The Killer Is Not Alone [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
In a shocking move, the film opens with a revealing who the killer is. A young man is invited into a woman’s apartment. As they begin to kiss on the bed, he pulls a thin wire and strangles her. The wire is so thin that it cuts into her throat, leading to a grisly death…
The Hungry Snake Woman [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
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…