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Criminally Insane has that special grindhouse funk that makes you want to take a shower when it’s over. It’s an odiferous melange of low budget, in […]

November 14, 2021

The Brick Dollhouse: Girls Who Want Boys Who Like Boys To Be Girls Who Do Boys

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The Brick Dollhouse is so dull and pointless it gets bored of itself. Scenes go on and on until the editor just can’t bear it any […]

November 11, 2021

Wild Zero: A Cross Cultural Meat Grinder

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In 1954 Godzilla lumbered out of the ocean to deliver the message that the coming nuclear age would bring terrifying consequences, but Japan had already suffered […]

November 11, 2021

The Turkish Mockbuster

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There is nothing like the feeling of standing at the edge of a rabbit hole and feeling the cool breeze around your ankles as it […]

November 10, 2021

Feminist Themes In Frankenhooker

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Frankenhooker, written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, fits easily into the is a 1980’s counter culture horror genre. It shares stylistic and thematic material with films […]

November 9, 2021

The Glory That Is Child Of Peach

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Child of Peach has a frantic enthusiasm rarely seen on screen. In 1987 Taiwanese directors Chung-Hsing Chao and Chen Chun-Liang took an old Japanese folktale and […]

November 8, 2021

Space Mutiny Is A Crime In More Than One Way

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Wait? What? I don’t understand. What the fuck am I watching? These were my first thoughts during the opening scenes of Space Mutiny. It can be […]

November 8, 2021

Gerard Damiano's Let My Puppets Come

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Fresh off the unbridled success of his masterwork Deep Throat, Gerard Damiano turned his attention to subjects more exotic. It was 1976 the year that […]

November 8, 2021

The Female Prisoner Scorpion Series

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In the span of just two years, 1972 to 1973, a series of four films were made in Japan by The Toei Company. The first […]

November 7, 2021

Chi-Lien Yu's Invincible Space Streaker

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In 1977 director Chi-Lien Yu fashioned a new edition to the Taiwanese Fantasy genre. Let me, if I may, describe to you the opening few […]

November 7, 2021

Frank Packard’s Abar The First Black Superman

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Superman, Jesus, Moses, they’re all the same. Larger-than-life magicians who solve problems in ways human beings can not. What point is there to watching a […]

November 6, 2021

War God: The Big Calamity

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Taiwanese director Hung Min Chen made, what at first glance looks like a low budget kaiju movie, and it is indeed a low budget Kaiju […]

November 5, 2021

Jane Mansfield In Dog Eat Dog

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No opening credits, no atmospheric music to lead us in, just a sudden blare of wild jazz and the screen goes from black to Jane Mansfield […]

November 5, 2021

You Will Never Ever See Another Film Like The Boxer’s Omen, Never.

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About a month ago I ordered a bluray from what I can only imagine was a pirate. I paid twelve bucks for a disc that contained […]

November 5, 2021

A Visual Summary of The Beast In Space

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We open in a smokey space bar where our leading couple meet. They have awkward soft core sex Time to blast off for an intrepid […]

November 4, 2021

The New Equine Cinema

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Breathlessly, ardently I beseech you all to harken to my call. Let me be the harbinger of a cinema most revolutionary! It has come to […]

November 4, 2021

Dr. Caligari, Never Ever to be Confused With The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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Dr. Caligari presents itself as a sequel to Robert Wien’s silent masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I’m not sure it quite succeeds in its attempt but […]