Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Bloody Judge (1970)

Jesus Franco digs back into British history and basis The Bloody Judge off of King James The II and his murderous followers in the Clergy. Christopher Lee, who most remember best for his Hammer Studio's work like Horror Of Dracula also has appeared in some nastier Foreign stuff like Mario Bava's The Whip And The Body. Lee plays The Bloody Judge in this trashy film and it is amongst the nastiest of Christopher Lee's body of work.

Christopher Lee himself claims he has never seen The Bloody Judge due to the fact that he is offended from what he has heard from critics upon the brutality and eroticism of the films nature. The truth is that The Bloody Judge is almost a bit tame as far as Franco goes. Sure there is torture, rape and full frontal nudity on display but the director has far surpassed The Bloody Judge in bad taste on previous films and features to come. For me The Bloody Judge plays like a less violent and over the top version of the cult classic Mark Of The Devil, which would be released in the same year. Which film came first I'm not exactly sure but it is safe to say that both of these burn-witch-burn movies cashed in on Vincent Price's Witchfinder General and took it in a more exploitative and ghastly direction.

And speaking of exploitation, The Bloody Judge went under the ridiculous title of Night Of The Blood Monster in America not to be mistaken for the awful Corman flick Night Of The Blood Beast. The American title is not only a misleading title but just a bad title in general. Jesus Franco and Christopher Lee alike were both disgusted by the American distribution and retitling of the movie and I can't say that I blame them much.

Even if I were lucky enough to catch this thing on 42nd street or in some shit-hole theater somewhere I would be expecting something more like a John Ashley movie like Brides Of Blood rather then a Franco telling of the Inquisition and witch burnings.

Well they don't call em exploitation movies for nothing and for those poor unfortunates who thought they were going to see an all out monster-fest... That's just another battle scar that comes with the territory for us life long devoted drive-in movie fans and cult film enthusiasts.

Another problem with The Bloody Judge is that it runs a bit to long. In its uncut form The Bloody Judge clocks in at 104 minutes and there just isn't enough bloodletting and nudity to fill that amount of space. Instead Franco stages a battle with real cannons, horses and old time wardrobe. In my opinion it all looked a bit amateurish and seemed more like a waste of time and money from a director that we are really just waiting for the next bare breasted whipping scene. None the less it is obvious that the director was given a decent amount of money to make the film and he really tried to take it in somewhat of a respectful direction. This of course being a bit annoying to us true demento's who are looking for the more familiar Franco form of art.

On a more positive note some of the more memorable moments are a Christopher Lee rape scene, hands are lobbed off with an axe in a scene that reminded me of Guru The Mad Monk which would also be released in 1970 and hold some what of a similar plot. Hot tar is poured on the back of a naked women in true Bloody Pit Of Horror fashion. Accused witches are of course burned alive, there are stabbings, hangings and a man has his body chopped up with an axe. Of course we get some naked females and as an added bonus we have a creepy executioner running around in a spandex outfit. As I mentioned before due to the run time these scenes are bit to spaced out and I feel it really harmed the film.

The Bloody Judge is still worth a watch for all Franco fans or for anyone who wants to see Christopher Lee act his hart out in a more trashy role but still I would recommend Mark Of The Devil for a better and more grotesque time with evil fascists and witches.

The Nest (1988)

I usually love all of these silly nature gone wrong and animals attack flicks but The Nest really is nothing more then a big let down. Its the generic tale of secret government testing gone wrong but this time we are left with mutating cockroaches.

How you can fuck up a movie about flesh eating cockroaches, I'm really not sure but some how they managed well enough on this one.

A small town named North Port gets more then they bargained for when they are over run by killer roaches. The little critters sneak up on dogs, cats and humans alike and rip the flesh from the bone leaving a bloody mess where ever they go. I have to admit the gore effects are pretty good but in my opinion the film relies to much on special effects and not enough on character development or even a coherent plot which is the major downfall of the final product. Being somewhat of a gore-hound myself I enjoy the scenes of eyeballs being eaten from the victims skulls but then the movie goes into this cheesy 80's realm and destroys itself with shitty humanoid cockroach mutations and transformations.

I think I would just rather watch the Creepshow segment with the killer cockroaches. That one is good clean gory fun and holds back on mutant cat-roaches. We have way to much of this stupid shit. One scene in particular really annoyed me when a man sheds his skin to reveal that he is a giant cockroach that walks up right.

The towns people might be a bit confused because it is not The Blob that is terrorizing them but they still reach for the nearest fire extinguisher and get a bit trigger happy. I guess fire extinguishers is the weapon of choice against any form of monstrous invasion because yet again it seems to do the trick.

The Nest also comes in tact with a boring love story for a sub plot but for me the best scene shows a man playing in a dumpster as a waitress yells to him "Stop playing with the garbage". This dirty fucker meets his fate by the jaws of the killer bugs and is left dead and rotting amongst his beloved trash.

Trash is what we have here and not in a good way either. Stick with the countless other animals gone wrong flicks. This one would only really appeal to those who love dumb 80's movies where gore is king and story telling is secondary.

The Ghost Of Marquis De Sade (2002)

The Ghost Of Marquis De Sade is yet another retarded mongoloid child from director Yakov Levi (Shameless, Tasteless).

This short film is set in a girls sleepover party. The three dumb bimbos decide to hold a seance and raise the worlds greatest lover from the dead. They choose on Marquis De Sade, not realizing who he is. "He's French, he has to be a great lover. The French invented the kiss". Well these ding-bats get exactly what they deserve when De Sade pays them a visit. An all night sex-o-rama with torture and S&M.

This short film is the kind of thing you would expect your 13 year old brother to make with his perverted friends on a home video camera. In other words it is pretty damn bad and it plays like something that would come from a perverse adolescents mind but then again that seems to be Yakov Levi's thing. To make things worse the director doesn't even have the decency to show naked female flesh. Instead he has dumb broads walk around in their underwear and kiss each other a lot.

The few highlights the flick does have to offer is a broom stick that is rammed up a sleeping beauties no-no spot and comes out of her mouth. There is also a bit of torture with a hot iron but there really isn't anything to recommend here unless you have the mental capacity of a middle school student who spends more time trying to peek into the girls locker room rather then learning. Then this mind numbing nonsense might be for you.

This can be found on Shameless Tasteless : Trash Cinema From The Soviet Union Underground dvd.

Friday, August 10, 2012

A Guide For The Married Man (1967)

This is a pretty daring comedy for 1967 and its so strange to think that this sort of thing would be rated {PG}. What we have here is basically the handbook for cheating on your wife. It explains all the ins and outs and the precautions one most take to avoid being caught.

It also makes for great eye candy for all men. The boobs bounce and the hips shake as the 60's scantily clad babes flaunt for the cameras.

I can see this movie getting a lot of men in trouble back upon its release. Especially if that man's best girl has any kind of doubt to what he has been doing. Perhaps he hasn't been working late.

A Guide For The Married Man shows men as they are. Lustful idiots who usually think with the wrong head. Of course the movie also portrays women in a rather dim light but hey it was the times.
Walter Matthau plays Paul, a happily married man who just can't seem to keep his eyes off of the ladies and I can't exactly blame him because he is surrounded by hot babes where ever he goes. His wife Ruth is the perfect house wife and there is nobody in the world Paul would rather be with. That is with the exception for any women at the moment. Paul's best friend is a professional cheater and is trying to teach Paul how to have a respectable affair.

Jayne Mansfield shows up for a roll in the hay with a married man. What can be better then a one night stand with Jayne Mansfield? Well she looses her bra in the married mans home and it is only a matter of time before that thing shows up. Of course it is nice to watch Jayne shake her ta-ta's for the camera and I think just about every guy can relate with this scene. How many times has a girl left something behind in your bedroom?

That's what makes A Guide For The Married Man so great. It has so many realistic moments in it and it still manages to be funny and sexy at the same time.

Amongst Jayne Mansfield and Walter Matthau is Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy), Inger Steven's (Hang Em High), Sue Ane Langdon (It Came Without Warning), Linda Harrison (Planet Of The Apes) and plenty of other fine looking females.

This one is for the guys. Just tell your best girl that you're working late.

Black Godfather (1974)

The Black Godfather is a pretty standard run of the mill Blaxploitation flick. In fact it is pretty much a ripoff of Black Ceasar with the oh so familiar tale of a black man trying to make it to the top and gain complete control over his community.

"Community" seems to be the word of the movie. Black Dynamite  even poked fun at this "But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in this community" because every five seconds somebody in The Black Godfather is saying "We need to keep drugs out of the community".

Aside from the "Community" reference in Black Dynamite it is very possible that the far superior Dolemite borrowed from this movie with a black militant who sleeps in a coffin but unfortunately we do not get a bad-ass motha-fucka like Rudy Ray Moore. What we do get is a old timer named Nate Williams who has been running the show in the "black community" for a very long time. Nate is a pimp, a pusher, and a dangerous man but even he feels the pressure of "the man" that is a white mobster named Tony. Nate Williams takes a youngster under his wing named J.J. and gives him some work but its not long before J.J. wants to step up to being The Black Godfather. J.J. declares war against Tony and forms a militant group with a promise to keep drugs out of... you guessed it... The community. Of course J.J. doesn't care about drugs on the street but this is the only way to gain the respect of his followers. All he really wants is to keep the white man out of his neighborhood. Tony and his boys kill Nate Williams and kidnap J.J.'s girl. This all comes together with a big shoot-out in a hospital. Sounds like Black Cesar again, doesn't it?

The Black Godfather does have some bare breasted women running about but I'm not so sure if it is appreciated. We have a cross eyed junkie played by Betsee Finlee who can also be seen in the nude in Double Exposure which possibly sports the ugliest women in cinematic history. Some of the other treats that The Black Godfather has to offer is visible boom mics. An airplane crash and burn, car chase (complete with crash and burn), gun violence, kung fu bitches and a meat cleaver is buried into an achy-breaky skull. We also have plenty of skid row junkies roaming about looking for a fix and white people are refered to as "Cockroaches". The Black Godfather has little to no social commentary but I suppose there is some sort of anti drug message in there.

If you like any sort of polish on your blaxploitation films you are probably wasting your time. The Black Godfather is not a bad time waster for genre fans but all others should probably stay away and stick to something with a bit more production value like The Mack or just go in the opposite, over the top direction and re watch Dolemite.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Hollywood Babylon (1972)

This 70's softcore smut poses as a documentary on famous Hollywood scandals in the 1920's. The basis is taken from Kenneth Anger's infamous book of the same title but I'm pretty sure this was largely inspired by the 1970 highly controversial film Hollywood Blue which showed political and Hollyood scandals alike.

About half of the film is ancient archival stock footage from the 20's showing the actual stars. The other half is trashy reenactments of the supposed scandals that went down. This of course is just an excuse to show lots of full frontal male and female nudity.

Porno star Uschi Digard shows up for some titty action but there is really nothing to save this movie from being a boring drooler. The best scene is a reenactment of Fatty Arbuckle's scandal but of course this is fictionalized as is most of the movie. Fatty is hosting his drunken house party and takes a girl back to his room where he rams a wine bottle in places where it doesn't belong. The girl dies seconds later and Fatty is busted wearing nothing but his pajama pants.

We also get drug use, some lesbian action, a nymphomaniac who takes on the whole football team in a sleazy gang bang. We also have a sadistic, perverted film director who enjoys filming orgies and then whipping his cast members. There is a pedophile who marries a 15 year old. Oral sex, murder and it is all done in sheer bad taste.

This one offers nothing new. Another tit flick from the golden age of trashy cinema. I would assume that Hollywood Blue is the better watch even though I am yet to see it. Stay away from this one unless you are a Ushi Digard fanatic or a huge Kenneth Anger fan. Even so I should warn you to be prepared to sleep it off.

Ilsa The Wicked Warden (1977)

What happens when sleaze master Jesus Franco feels the influence of Ilsa : She Wolf Of The S.S.? He makes his own version of course. Originally titled Greta : Wicked Warden and then Wanda The Wicked Warden Dyanne Thorne plays... Well the Wicked Warden in another demented women in prison flick.

Since there is no real connection between the Ilsa movies aside from porno star Dyanne Thorne (Point Of Terror, Blood Sabbath) there is no need to set this movie in Nazi Germany. I guess its safe to say that the Ilsa series plays more like a Japanese Yakuza film series where connection is completely unnecessary.

Abbie although innocent fakes her nymphomania in order to be checked into the female prison run by Greta (Dyanne Thorne). Abbie's sister was checked into the prison over a year ago and was never released. Desperate to learn her sisters fate Abbie is subjected to torture and sexual abuse from Greta and the other female inmates.

Amongst the female prisoners is Lina Romay (Female Vampire) and she offers up some expected trashy moments. She has a S&M lesbian scene with Dyanne Thorne in which sewing needles are stuck into her bare breasts but perhaps the sickest moment in the film shows Romay on the toilet taking a steamy dump. She forces Abbie to lick her boots while she sits on the john. Next she has Abbie lick her ass clean. Yuck! This is of course followed by vomit. Then of course we get the shower scenes and the occasional naked cat fight but this one doesn't shy off on the whips and shock therapy. Women are treated pretty badly in this place and it is all being recorded live from the prison and sold to some sick fuck who pays handsomely for some nice snuff flicks. One girl has her eye ripped out and the others are covered in scars. I have to admit the makeup looks pretty good on some of these girls. One of the girls has a nasty scar running down her eye and it looks pretty damn real. Growing up in New York I am oh so familiar with the marks that are left on a face after it is slashed up and I can't help but wonder if this particular girl is in fact scared in real life. Ilsa : The Wicked Warden also offers up a very nasty rape orgy. When some male inmates from another prison are invited over to the women's prison for a bit of love making which will all be filmed for financial purposes, the dudes rip at the clothes of the women and their flesh as well. The clothes drop and the blood drips and Franco shows it all.

As with most of these women in prison flicks there is a bit of revolution and revenge at the end of the film but of course it doesn't equal the brutality that the victims of this prison had to endure. Ilsa, Greta, Wanda... What ever you want to call it, makes for high entertainment in true trashy Franco fashion. This one even offers up footage of tigers and lions ripping away at flesh during a human cannibal scene. Check it out for some disgusting fun with Dyanne Thorne and Lina Romay. Thanks Jess Franco, ya sick fucker!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Faces Of Death III (1985)

Well these Faces Of Death movies just get worse and worse don't they? The first film is good mondo fun. Faces Of Death part 2 was even more disturbing with nastier and more gruesome death on display. This one is just a straight up piece of shit with almost every single scene in the movie being a badly done reenactment of real scenarios involving death.

Dr. Francis B. Gross takes us through yet another look at death but the stylish elements from the first film are completely absent this time around. Director John Alan Schwartz has a cameo in F.O.D. 3. He plays a serial rapist and murderer on trial for video taping the sexual abuse and killing of a young Asian woman. By this time the series has become redundant and even the narration is totally repetitive. If I keep "exploring the many Faces Of Death" it is going to be the death of me.

With nothing new to offer F.O.D. 3 gives reenactments of suicide, deadly rattle snake bites, a skid row serial killer who dumps the lifeless bums bodies in dumpsters and some violent p.c.p. addicts. It seems the only real footage here is animal murder and if that is your thing you might as well join some dumb animals rights group and watch Kentucky Fried Chicken videos all day.

I'm pretty sure F.O.D. stands for fuck off and die..

Monday, August 6, 2012

Planet Terror (2007)

In 2007 Robert Rodriguez (Roadracers, Machete) and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs) would co direct an experimental double bill called Grindhouse which came complete with two full length, exploitation style films and a bunch of fake trailers.

Due to box office failure the films were distributed separately on dvd and unfortunately a lot of the fun stuff was left out.

Robert Rodriguez feature is an all out zombie flick called Planet Terror which stars the incredibly sexy Rose McGowen as a Go-Go dancer who has her leg amputated after a zombie attack. She teams up with a bunch of weirdo's and battles the flesh eating ghouls all the way to Mexico.

Planet Terror was never intended to be taken seriously. It is an all out gore-fest from beginning to end with gut munching, head explosions, car explosions and plenty of cheesy dialogue. This tongue in cheek homage to 70's and 80's exploitation films is nothing new for the director. All of his films pretty much play the same way and this is amongst the directors best.

Big budget, modern, Hollywood horror is the last thing that I usually would praise but these homage films from the 2000's serve a place in my collection. Of course Grindhouse jump started it all but the films to come after would surpass it in my humble opinion. Machete is good clean Mexploitaion fun and my personal favorite being Black Dynamite. I show respect where it is due and if it wasn't for two fan-boys like Quentin and Robert there might not have been a Black Dynamite.

If you want to see Tom Savini ripped to shreds or a little kid blow his own brains out or a woman snap her own wrist or Rose McGowan have a gun implanted where her leg used to be or Bruce Willis mutate and melt down or a mad scientist collect human testicles or zombies being yet again decapitated by helicopter propellers, then you should check out Planet Terror. Or you could always just watch all the movies that it pays homage to. Either way this is the closest we get to exploitation in America in the 2000's.

Black Girl (1972)

Why do people like this movie? For some strange reason it is really hard to find anything negative said about this one on the Internet and that just really baffles me. From the looks of the movie poster one can't help but think that Black Girl is going to be a bad-ass 70's Blaxploitation flick. Well I might as well give fair warning to cult film enthusiasts... This is not the case. Black Girl is basically a soap opera with some foul language and some really bad dancing.

The picture on the left should give you a pretty good idea of Black Girl's contents. What we get is about 97 minutes of manipulative girls arguing.

The whole first half of the movie is as boring as can be with endless chit chat and plenty of dramatics. The later half gets somewhat interesting when the plot shifts gears and the emotion is layed on even thicker. When its all said and done it makes for a pretty depressing movie. Its just to bad that nothing really happens at all.

Billy Jean is a teenager who drops out of school and gets a gob dancing at some shit-hole bar where she makes three dollars a day. Her back stabbing older sisters rat Billy Jean out to their neglectful mother, Momma Rosie. Momma Rosie has a knack for getting knocked up by different men and having daughters. She gives her kids a roof over their heads but that is about it. Lets just say there isn't any love in the air. Momma Rosie also likes taking in stray runaway kids and prefers one in particular over her own children. This of course results in jealousy and hatred for the runaway foster child. Billy Jean and her older sisters come up with a plan to get rid of mommy's little golden child.

This thing was directed by the same guy who did Cotton Comes To Harlem which I have not yet seen but I'm sure it has to be more interesting then this one. If you are into exploitation films do yourself a favor and avoid Black Girl. That is unless you really dig boo-hoo sappy stories about under privileged African American girls.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

People love to hate this movie but the truth is that The Incredible Melting Man is incredible from start to finish in all of its gory glory.

This one almost plays like a remake of the 1950's classic monster flick The Hideous Sun Demon which is also amazing. However this 70's ripoff follows an astronaut named Steve who returns from a voyage to Saturn!?!? with a bit of a problem. He was exposed to an unknown source that causes him to become a violent, murderous madman on a blood-crazed path to destruction. Oh and there is one more thing... He is melting. Melting fast for that matter and it seems the only gratification that Steve will get from here on is to tear people apart and eat them. Yep this movie has it all! Melting astronauts and cannibals. What more do you need?

Naturally most people despise this movie for its bad acting, low budget and constant plot holes. For me this just adds to the madness of this 70's gore epic. It sports a beautiful moment where The Incredible Melting Man decapitates a fishermen and throws the severed head into the river. The scene cuts away to some very young kids smoking cigarettes and eventually cuts back to the head floating down the river and dropping from a waterfall where it will eventually come crashing down onto some rocks. The head bursts open on impact with red splatter sent flying towards the camera. Beautiful!

There are a bunch of genuinely dumb moments including one that shows a fat nurse on the run from the melting man. She runs clean through a glass door rather then opening it and of course she becomes a pretty healthy meal for our cannibalistic villain.

However the weirdest entity within this movie is that it tries to play like a 50's sci-fi monster movie. It is clear that this is where the film makers inspiration came from and there are so many 50's horror cliches thrown into the mix including the constant use of a giger counter.

Even if they are paying homage to the 50's it just never comes off right because The Incredible Melting Man is just so 70's in its sleaze factor. Despite the over the top gore, the film also offers up some tit in an overly trashy scene with actress Cheryl Smith who shows up in equally trashy delights such as Caged Heat, Pom Pom Girls and Massacre At Central High. This time around miss Smith plays a model who has her top ripped off by her scummy photographer who just really wants to see some tits. I wish I could have had a talk with this pervert and told him to just rent some of her other movies and he would have seen all he wanted but thanks to him we get some more bare boobage in a much appreciated scene.

The movie also offers up a senior citizen couple being devoured, eyeballs fall from the sockets, strangulation, severed arms, electrocution, a shoot out and all the melty action you deserve. Watch it! Embrace it! Love it! Its from the incredible 70's man!

Friday, August 3, 2012

White Dog (1982)

White Dog tells the gritty tale of a white German Shepard that is trained to attack and kill. However this is not your average attack dog. This is a "White Dog" meaning that it was bread by white racists to attack and kill black people.

While most directors would have taken this movie in one of two directions. Either the straight up exploitation rout or the sappy Hollywood moralist direction. The great Sam Fuller opts to make a art-house type horror film with a serious social commentary. The White Dog of course being a metaphor for the problems of racism in America and how easy it is to corrupt an innocent mind. The outcome is extremely dangerous. Not only is this dog dangerous but the subject matter is equally dangerous for any director to touch upon in 1982 and Fuller definitely paid the price.

The director fell victim to rabid critics who just didn't understand the film. Anyone familiar with Sam Fuller's work (The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor) would blatantly see that racism and its affects on society is a theme that constantly comes back in the writer/directors films and this one is as touching as any other.

The horror on the other hand also works very well. When a struggling actress named Julie accidentally hits the dog with her car she does the humane thing and rushes the wounded animal to the hospital. She takes the dog home and falls in love with it. The first scene of violence shows the dog protecting its new owner against a rapist but its not long before innocent people start dying. Innocent black people that is. When Julie learns what is happening she takes her new pet to some professional animal trainers who have already dealt with a White Dog. The plan is to correct the dogs behaviour by mental reconditioning. The dog escapes and the murders continue but out of love for her dog Julie does not turn him in to the authorities.

White Dog artistically mixes horror and drama together. It finishes on a bit of a down note and comes complete with somewhat of a twist ending. There is also a delightful bit of gory mayhem that takes place in a church that needs to be seen to be believed. Check it out for a great Sam Fuller experience with racist animals, blood and a ending that would make Bambi viewers stop crying and shit their pants instead.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Grizzly (1976)

The most successful of all William Girdler films and it is understandable. Personally being a huge Girdler fan and a lover of his work that some consider unwatchable such as 3 On A Meathook and Asylum Of Satan, Grizzly is by far his most polished film and really goes to prove what the director was capable of.

Grizzly is just awesome from start to finish. With scenes of great brutality and bloodshed.

Christopher George (Pieces, The Exterminator, City Of The Living Dead) plays Kelly. Yep that's right his name is Kelly but he ain't no bitch. Kelly is a park ranger with a serious problem on his hands. When two pretty young girls turn up ripped to shreds he believes it to be a 15 foot Grizzly Bear which is not native to the woods that he is in control of. Kelly rounds up his men and take to the forest in search of the killer bear but he is always a step behind.

The bodies keep piling up and the Grizzly leaves a trail of body parts in his wake. Arms are severed, Heads are sent rolling, a woman is smashed into trees and left a mangled corpse, a bathing beauty meets her fate by the claws of the bear, a man is attacked from on top of a watch tower, another meets his fate by a killer bare hug and in the best and most controversial scene a little boy has his leg torn off at the knee, leaving a bloody stump for us to gawk at.  These are just some of the highlights that Grizzly has to offer but there is even more bloodletting that I haven't mentioned. The film also offers up explosions, helicopters and a real life giant Grizzly Bear which is unheard of for a Girdler film. In the films climax Kelly meets with the bear face to face and the battle has to be seen to be believed.

In the following year William Girdler will direct another nature gone wrong flick called Day Of The Animals also known as Something Is Out There but it just doesn't compare to the epic blood-bath that is Grizzly. Still true Girdler fans can't pass it up!

Grizzly caught a lot of flack from reviewers and critics upon its release. Most called it a Jaws ripoff. Some were witty enough to coin it as "Jaws With Claws" but this is of course a bit ridiculous. Yes there are similarities between the two films but did anybody accuse Steven Spielberg of ripping off Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds? Or Frogs or any of the other countless killer animals movies that came first. Of course not. Ripoff or not, I will take Grizzly any day over Jaws. Its the slasher flick of all killer animals movies and the only reason critics were so harsh on it is because the it came out right after the release of the giant budgeted Jaws.

The Worst Of Faces Of Death (1987)

I recently picked up Faces Of Death 1-5 plus a documentary called Faces Of Death Fact Or Fiction and this title. I some what reluctantly have been forcing myself to watch em all in chronological order. This one might be the most pathetic of the lot.

The title claims it to be "The Worst" Of Faces Of Death and I just might agree for the fact that is nothing more then a composit of Faces Of Death 1, 2 and 3. They cut together what they felt is the most gruesome moments from the three films and offer up this compilation of blood, guts and gore.

As the viewer there is nothing like taking the easy way out of things. We should all have to endure the equal amount of torture by sitting through the full films. As a film maker this video is nothing more then another marketing and money making scheme. There is nothing more to say about this so called movie with the exception of the opening where we are told that Dr. Gross is now dead himself and that his experiments and studies are still being examined for future Faces Of Death movies.

For a better time check out Mondo Cane or Africa Addio. Or just stick with the original Faces Of Death. That one at least got a theatrical run, unlike this deserved straight to video shit.