Throne Of Blood (1957)

Personally not being an expert or even very familiar with Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo) and his body of work, it is impossible for me to compare Throne Of Blood to the legendary directors other films. This however being the first Kurosawa film I have ever seen and the only one in my collection there is a soft spot in my heart for this eerie tale of ghosts, power, betrayal and death.

Throne Of Blood also known as The Castle Of Spiders Web is a adaption of Shakespeare Macbeth that takes place in medieval Japan.

Two brave and respected warriors encounter a ghost in the woods who will tell their future. The ghost although seemingly evil by its appearance seems to only bring good fortune. The soldiers are informed that they will become very important and powerful men. They will be emperors and rulers. Sure enough the fortune comes true for the two men almost immediately. However the men almost seem to be haunted by the memory of the spirit in the woods for years to come and it seems as if they almost expect bad fortune to come their way.

Throne Of Blood soon transforms into a tale of paranoia, madness and betrayal. One of them is manipulated by his power hungry wife. He becomes more and more paranoid until he sinks to the level of killing his friends and superiors. The other is betrayed by his son which changes the course of the fortune told by the ghost in the woods.

The film comes to an end with a tragic battle and our main characters being assassinated by their own men. One of them is showered in arrows in a unforgettable scene. I couldn't help but wonder if Brian De Palma was influenced by this scene for his climax of Scare Face.

The creepy imagery is really what makes Throne Of Blood so appealing. Horror fans will appreciate the cinematography and makeup used for the spirits and ghosts. We also have an awesome scene where the trees in the woods come to life and rise to attack and kill the emperor. It has to be seen to be believed. Its amazing to think that in America in 1957 we were making movies like Invasion Of The Saucer Men or I Was A Teenage Frankenstein and at the same time over in Japan Akira Kurosawa would come out with cinematic art like Throne Of Blood.

Check it out for creepy ghosts, arrows through the neck (complete with black & white blood), sword violence, spear violence, an insane drunk "I am terribly drunk" and one of the creepiest women to ever appear on screen.

Kitten With A Whip (1964)

Why people love to bad-mouth this movie is beyond me. I personally really dig this movie. Its a home invasion flick with a sexy looking blond as the villain, violent beatniks and a stupid good-doer as the hapless victim.

John Forsythe (Trouble With Harry) plays David Stratton, an aspiring politician who's life is about to take a dramatic change for the worse when he finds a young attractive blond (Ann-Margret) sleeping in his daughters bed. David does what any man with a brain would do and wakes her up for some questioning. David is taken in by the girls sob story of abuse and he decides to help her. First he buys her a pretty dress that shows off her finer aspects and then he takes her to the local bus stop where she can catch a ride out of town and start a new life. With the help of a news bulletin Mr. Stratton learns the truth about his new friend. She wasn't on the run from her abusive family at all. She is in fact an escaped juvenile who is wanted for stabbing a guard at the delinquent center. Its not long before David is being held captive in his home by the young tigress and two violent beatniks.

This is where Kitten With A Whip gets really good. The two beatniks take turns mentally and physically breaking David down. One of them is a vicious brute who gets a little slash-happy with a straight razor. The other is a sort of sophisti-cat who spills amazing dialogue that you can't help but love. "Those are the meanings of the meaningless, The exactitude's of the inexact. Man don't you dig the desire to not communicate?" I don't know about you but I can dig it and I love just about everything that comes out of this guys mouth.

The home invasion eventually takes to the road as the four characters get caught up in a game of cat and mouse and we are treated to a few fight scenes. A awesome moment where a guy is tangled in barbed wire and then run over by a car. A car crash (Complete with crash & burn) and a surprise ending.

For me Kitten With A Whip was a great watch and not necessarily in the exploitation sense either. Its not really very campy and while some of the characters maybe a bit gullible I think its a great movie with nice camera work and a few surprises that I really didn't see coming.

Rolling Thunder (1977)

Is it just me or does that poster remind you a bit of Taxi Driver? Well that might have something to do with the marketing direction. After all this nasty tale of revenge was written by the great Paul Shrader, the same man who thought Taxi Driver up. In the two following years Shrader would write Blue Collar and Hardcore with George C. Scott. Shrader's writing from this error always deals with great characters and great tragedy.

Rolling Thunder is no exception to the rule. This one tells of a Vietnam war hero who returns home from years of being held captive as a prisoner of war. He can't quite shake the awful memory of being beaten daily and anybody familiar with these types of movies knows that this thing is heading down a pretty nasty path.

Things really change for the worse when a group of scumbags break into our anti-hero's home and stick his hand in the garbage disposal. Next they shoot his wife and son and leave him to bleed to death with a bullet buried in his guts. Luckily for us and to bad for them our war veteran doesn't die and with a hook for a hand he goes on a bloody rampage of vengeance with hand guns and sawed off shotguns.

Linda Haynes from Coffy and Human Experiments follows our hook-hand, gun-wielding, hero down his path of revenge until things get really nasty. That's where Tommy Lee Jones picks up the slack as fellow war buddy who is happy to fill some bad guys full of shotgun slugs for an old friend. Together the war partners create a whore house massacre. Bullets go flying and so do the bodies.

Rolling Thunder plays like a cross between Death Wish and Taxi Driver. Its a bit slow at times but still a damn good watch. The Exterminator would probably be a perfect second feature for this thing in a theater but instead I got Godzilla VS. Mechagodzilla. It was a theatrical experience I don't think I will forget.

The Beyond (1981)

Lucio Fulci also known as the Godfather Of Gore dishes out this extremely graphic supernatural flick the same year as House By The Cemetery. While House By The Cemetery maybe very violent and disturbingly gory itself it can't quite compete with The Beyond as far as atmosphere, mood and overall film making goes.

The Beyond is considered by most Fulci fans to be the directors masterpiece and it is a hard statement to argue. Every aspect of the film right down to its elaborate sets is highly detailed and of course the same goes for the vicious murder scenes. On the other hand Lucio Fulci isn't exactly known for making movies that make much sense and The Beyond is no exception but then again the fans can defend this by saying "Its a supernatural movie. Its not supposed to make sense". I guess both parties would be right to a certain degree because The Beyond is full of zombies, ghosts, killer dogs, killer spiders and so forth and things seem to happen with no rhyme or reason.

The Beyond takes place in a hotel that contains a gateway to one of the seven doorways to hell. The gateway is opened with witchcraft and a very gory crucifixion that comes complete with violent chain beatings that rip through flesh and metal spikes that are hammered through the wrists of the victim. Next his face is burned off with some hot acid. Anyway, once the gateway is opened hell comes to earth and mankind is haunted by the living dead, animals running amok and any other way a director can jam a bunch of over the top gore into a film. We are treated to three graphic eyeball mutilation scenes, a women has her throat and ear ripped out by a dog, we have multiple gunshot wounds to the head including the most memorable and infamous scene in the movie where a little girl gets half her face blown off. This of course happens in gory detail and nothing is hidden from the audience. We also get to see a man eaten alive by tarantulas. The spiders eat his eyeballs out, rip his tongue to shreds and just really fuck him up.

Being lucky enough to catch this thing on the big screen at an all night horror festival, I really enjoyed listening to people who are new to this sort of cinema groaning as they struggled through the gore scenes. The girl next to me nearly lost her lunch as rivers of gore stained the screen red. Fans of this movie should also check out Gates Of Hell.

Godzilla VS. Mechagodzilla (1974)

Oh god, I don't even know where to start. These Godzilla movies are off the fucking wall and the most absurd seem to be the ones from the 70's.

Okay so Godzilla comes to Japan to fuck shit up but is intercepted by Mechagodzilla which is a sort of robotic version of Godzilla which was created by aliens in cheesy shiny suits. Godzilla gets his ass kicked by Mechagodzilla a bunch and every time the robot suffers damage the aliens pull it back to their spaceship and repair it and make it more efficient for the next fight.

Meanwhile Godzilla fights other monsters that are only found in parts of the world like Japan. Godzilla stomps one monster into the ground that looks like a mix between a hedgehog and the monsters from The Killer Shrews. We also have a bunch of silly Japanese folk praying to some monster called King Cesar who is woken up from some deep sleep by some long drawn out singing and dancing from what is supposed to be the sex appeal bikini clad Asian lady. Cesar joins forces with Godzilla and the two monsters tag-team against Mechagodizza but King Cesar gets his ass handed to him pretty quick. What can you expect, Mechagodizlla shoots lazers from his eyes, fire from his mouth and rockets from his fingertips and toes. Geeezzz.

As if this isn't enough the aliens that created Mechagodizlla are really a bunch of apes disguised as humans. For some reason when they get shot in the face their human flesh fades away with some really bad special effects and their true, hairy, Planet Of The Apes ripoff identity becomes known. We also have two silly secret agents who run around and save peoples lives. This is pretty silly considering that there are monsters that are threatening all of the world (or at least Japan) again. Never the less these guys add some added fun with car explosions and fist fights with ape-people. The best lines and memorable quotes however come from a scientist who has a strange fascination with magnets and pipes. "Its a powerful pipe".

I was lucky enough to catch this thing in the theater with a bunch of drunken, chuckling folk. Even if some pansy asked us to "keep it down" as if Godzilla VS. Mechagodzilla were some deep, philosophical, expression with important and intelligent dialogue, it was still a great experience. Lovers of bad monster movies should enjoy this one. Watch for the scene where Godzilla stomps his enemies head into the ground. It comes complete with red gore! Oh and for those concerened, Godzilla wins!

True Romance (1993)

Back when Quentin Tarantino was still a great writer he thought up one of the best love stories of all time. If I had to relate it to any one other film I suppose it plays a bit like David Lynch's Wild At Heart in the sense that they are both 90's films and definitely not your normal sappy love story.

True Romance almost seems as if it was Tarantino's wet dream. The story follows Clarence Worley, (Christian Slater) a Elvis obsessed dork who works in a comic book store and watches way to many exploitation movies who falls in love with a beautiful blond bimbo named Alabama (Patricia Arquette). They make the perfect couple. They meet in a grindhouse theater at a Street Fighter (Sonny Chiba) triple feature. They both dress in swanky, rockabilly clothing and they love greasy food but the honeymoon can't last forever. Its not long before the couple is fighting off pimps, mobsters, drug dealers and the police.

True Romance is pretty violent and has a decent amount of bloodletting. Its also chock full of bad language so the moms might not really dig this one so much. It's definitely a movie that is more for dad and Patricia Arquette isn't so bad on the eyes either as she walks around in bra's and tight leopard print spandex pants.

Dennis Hopper shows up as Clarence's father and has the most memorable scene in the movie with Christopher Walken. Tarantino soaks this segment of the script with racism and violence. Hopper takes Walken through a history lesson and informs him that his Sicilian genetics are tainted with black blood in a brilliantly written scene. Walken reacts by shooting Hopper in the face and spitting on his corpse.

Gary Oldman (Sid And Nancy), boring Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Chris Penn and fucking cousin Balki from Perfect Strangers show up all in memorable roles. Gary Oldman plays a white pimp who thinks he's black and goes on long rants about The Mack. Oldman blows a dude away with a shotgun because he doesn't "eat pussy" and throws a serious ass beating on Clarence "He must have thought it was white boy day". Pretty boy Brad Pitt plays a loser pot-head who doesn't really offer anything to the movie except maybe for other fellow pot-heads who might get a cheap chuckle out of his stupidity. Chris Penn plays a bad-ass cop who gets caught up in some serious gun-violence and Balki vomits on himself and gets covered in cocaine while getting road-head.

We also have bullet wounds to the eye, a mobster gets his face set on fire and gets hit over the achy-breaky skull with a toilet bowl cover before having his chest blown apart from multiple shotgun blasts. We get some Sonny Chiba kung fu, dead cops, lots of blood, a great soundtrack and the whole time you can cuddle up next to your best girl. After all this is a love story. Its called True Romance... How sweet!

American Dreamer (1971)

Charles Manson fanatics will be pleased with this rare title. Just when you thought you have seen every piece of footage with Charile Manson in it, something new comes along. Like The American Dreamer. Oh wait... That's not Charles Manson. Nope, it Dennis Hopper.

After the success of Hopper's directorial debut Easy Rider, he went on to direct an odd little gem in cinema of the weird. Its an artsy-fartsy tale of a film crew who are mimicked by poor villagers. The only difference is the villagers use of violence is for real. The Last Movie is definitely a movie from mars and might even cause brain damage to those who are not used to that form of cinema.

While Hopper was  editing The Last Movie a documentary crew was following the new director around with a camera and filming Mr. Hopper's crazy life. Apparently Dennis Hopper thought he was Charles Manson for a little while there. While living in the desert with a bunch of hippies the camera crew films Hopper's insane philosophy on life. It's amazing to see how much the man is imitating Manson. I would almost love to sit down with Dennis Hopper (r.i.p.) and watch this film, just to see if he would be embarrassed of himself for his blatant fascination and impersonation of Manson. Hopper even goes on to explain how he went to visit Charlie in jail and shares their conversation with us "If I'm your garbage, then you made me your garbage. I am what you made me."

Hopper even goes as far as to invite 30 girls to come live with him. Together Charlie, I mean Dennis and his girls bath, sleep and indulge in orgies. Well kinda... In one scene we get to watch Hopper munching on some hairy hippie, pussy in a bathtub but my personal favorite scene shows Hopper walking through suburban streets bare-ass-naked. He walks right past peoples homes completely nude and its just one of those moments in celluloid that us movie hounds live for.

Check out The American Dreamer for some Charlie Manson style philosophy, naked hippies, lots of grass toking and Hopper blasting off his guns and just being the madman that he is. Dennis Hopper is one of my all time favorite actors and anybody who loves the man almost half as much as I do needs to see this oddity.

The Haunting (1963)

Robert Wise (The Day The Earth Stood Still, West Side Story) directs what is probably one of the best supernatural movies of all time. Or at least as far as a serious ghost movie goes. William Castle's schlocky classics will always hold a place in the hearts of us B-movie fans but unlike 13 Ghosts and House On Haunted Hill, The Haunting achieves its entertainment with mood and creepy imagery.

The audience never sees a ghost in The Haunting but the proper use of lighting and shadowy figures gives the film its strength. In other words The Haunting is not a B-movie. In fact it was somewhat of a big budget film or at least big budget as far as the horror genre goes. Robert Wise chose to shoot in black and white not due to the lack of money but rather he felt that it would enhance the film which he was very much correct about. The black and white film definitely adds mood to the creepy old house where as if it was shot on that sort of Alfred Hitchcock Vistavission or something it really would be baring to much to the audience and most likely harming the final product. Even though we never see a ghost, there is no doubt that Hill House is haunted. Loud sound effects and sudden change in camera movement is used rather the half-assed special effects.

We might not see any ghosts but we do get a suicide by hanging which is probably one of the best self hanging scenes in film history. Another women falls to her death down a very long set of spiral stairs, death by car crash, lesbians, and some Russ Tamblyn-fu.

The Haunting was taken from a novel and supposedly follows pretty close to the events withing the book. It tells of a haunted mansion called Hill House and a scientist who along with three assistants is using Hill House as a medium to either prove or disprove that supernatural powers exist. Well the scientist may not prove anything to the world but he certainly proves to his assistants along with us as the viewers that ghosts are very real. Tamblyn's character is the great disbeliever in The Haunting. He mocks everybody for their faith in ghosts but before the films ending Tamblyn's character is more then believing.

The Haunting would be ripped off dozens of times with films like The Legend Of Hell House and even Pet Sematary before it would be remade and completely bastardized in 1999. I unfortunately was brave enough to see the theatrical release of The Haunting and remember it as being one of the worst horror films I have ever seen. Stick with the original and don't ever put yourself through the tortures of the 99 remake.

Not Quite Hollywood : The Wild Untold Story Of Ozploitation (2008)

Watching this documentary on Australian exploitation cinema made me realize two things. The first being that maybe I haven't seen entirely to many movies because almost every title they speak of in this movie I have never seen and most of them I haven't even heard of. The second realization is that I am bound to see a lot more because this movie is fucking insane and makes Australian cinema in general look fucking nuts.

The film starts with the sleazy sexploitation films and makes its way into the horror genre and then into biker film territory and the car crashing mayhem of Ausy on the road films. Quentin Tarantino appears a lot in this film and speaks of Australia's influence on him. He admits to borrowing from many of these movies, one in particular being a scene from Patrick (one of the few films in the documentary I have heard of) which he would use in Kill Bill.

We get lots of bloodletting, car explosions, and action film violence which is displayed on he screen in quick clips from various different movies. Each looking more bad-ass then the last. Australians are crazy people who break bones, set themselves on fire and even die for their form of cinema and I think this is something that I am going to be forced to study a bit more.

99 Women (1969)

Jesus Franco delivers what looks like a A.I.P. women in prison flick way before Corman or Arkoff were dishing them out. We get a bunch of beauties behind bars who bare their breasts and beat the shit out of each other any chance they get.

Lucky for us the girls a allowed to wear their thigh high stockings in this women's hell hole. Herbert Lom who I remember best as the "impotent" judge and jury in Mark Of The Devil shows up as a sex maniac who likes to torture the nubile prisoners before groping them.

Typical of a Franco film the story is a bit on the weak side but the camera work is great and so are the locations. This thing goes under a million different titles but 99 Women is the most popular of the bunch and although there really isn't 99 of them Franco makes the best of what he has to work with and that of course is sex and violence. In the most memorable scene the girls attack a big python snake with a pocket knife and I say attack because they don't have the decency to kill it as if we were watching a Italian cannibal film. Instead they get staby-staby and cut huge chunks out of the snake and then send it slivering away all bloody and cut to bits. Damn Franco, you are one ruthless fucker.

Not my top pick for a women in prison flick or even a Franco W.I.P. flick for that matter but well worth the watch if not for anything else some nasty rape and snake violence. You might not want to watch it with your vegetarian girlfriend though because animals were definitely harmed during the making of 99 Women.

Sleazemania (1985)

Exploitation and smut historian Johnny Legend (Teenage Cruisers) presents a one hour compilation of sleazy clips and trashy trailers ranging from the 1930's up to the 80's. Mr. Legend doesn't introduce the comp. which is a shame and for the most part Sleazemania is your run of the mill 60 minute time waster of filth and swill right out of the gutter. We do get a couple of great trailers and moments. My personal favorite being a overly sleazy trailer for The Smut Peddlers which I am yet to see but if the film is only a bit as good as its disgusting trailer it will be well worth my time. Another great trailer being the Young Seducers which I also have not scene but the title of the film is proudly pasted over a huge mound of pubic hair on the trailer which I thought was a very classy touch and got a great deal of laughs from me. We also have an incredibly awkward penny arcade stag film with three girls who are about as graceful as a 18 wheeler trying to make its way across two lanes of traffic in new york city.

Sleazemania works as a great filler between two trash films on a double bill or just some background viewing pleasure while consuming alcohol.

Anatomy Of A Psycho (1961)

This Juvenile Delinquent flick tells of a hoodlum named Chet who swears revenge on the authority figures who convicted and executed his older brother for murder. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree because Chet's older brother was a delinquent who stole, beat people up and eventually killed a man and younger Chet now carries all those wonderful traits.

The best part is that Chet and his gang of hoodlums get their vengeance on the sons of the judges, lawyers, police and d.a.'s sons. They never actually physically hurt the ones to blame. Armed with switchblade knives with paper bags over their heads, these delinquents stomp on a kids face in one of the most memorable scenes. Chet also puts another kids face through a mirror and then sets fire to his house. Its a little hard to sympathize with the victims due to the fact that they are all a bunch of rich kids who fathers represent the law but Chet goes over the deep end and kills his friend Moe with a switchblade to the gut. Then he has the audacity to move into Moe's "Shack". That's right Moe lives in a shack. I don't know what the law was on paying taxes, rent or a mortgage on a shack back in 1961 but it seems to be the place to be.

Anatomy Of A Psycho has a cool rockabilly soundtrack, a bit of violence and excessive drinking. Broken bottles makes for knives and cigarettes are used for house fires. This movie could have taken off in a much more thought provoking direction when the father of one of Chet's victims could have had his chance for revenge but instead it sticks to being a good old fashioned cheaply made exploitation flick in the juvenile delinquent genre. "Your brother was a punk, killer and he still is a punk!".

All The Way In (1984)

This is the very first porno film I ever saw in full and for that reason alone it will always hold a spot in my heart. I have no idea how many times I have seen it and am always ready for another screening and the best part is that it isn't even that good of a film. Directed by Bob Chinn who would later be remembered for his Johnny Wadd series, this cheesy 80's flick stars Candy Samples who I remember best from Russ Meyer's Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra Vixens. Candy plays Mrs. Fantasy whom runs a column in a dirty magazine called Ultra Flesh, not to be mistaken for the porno-super-hero flick of the same title staring Seka. Anyway Candy isn't feeling up to her normal nympho self ever since she fell in love with a man named Pat who left her high and dry. Ronnie the rocket Jeremy, Mai Lin, and Eric Edwards do their best along with many others to get the old Mrs. Fantasy back but only Pat has that magic touch.

Jeremy has the best scene in the movie where he manipulates young models into doing the dirty. Mai Lin has a couple of hot scenes herself and Candy's scenes... Well those are always a rough sit but that just makes the film all the more entertaining. As a added bonus Mr. Russ Meyer shows up for a cameo where he bumps into Candy Samples on a airplane. He looks down at her massive melons and says "Where have I seen those before?". The film also offers a tid bit of S&M in a scene that shows Samples without her mullet.

All The Way In is supposed to be a comedic drama with a sensitive love story but it doesn't come off that way. It comes off as pure comedy and the bad story makes the film even more funny. You're guaranteed to laugh!

Critters (1986)

Two years after the success of Gremlins, this silly 80's monster movie would hit theaters and get little kids to scream and parents to laugh. I suppose these midget monster movies from the 80's were one of the few trends that parents and kids could enjoy together horror wise.

These little fur-balls are an alien life form that come to planet earth to wreak havoc and of course snack down on some humans. These guys don't multiply with water but they do get bigger with each meal. They have razor sharp teeth and they shoot little dart like spikes from their bodies. Unfortunately due to the {PG13} rating Critters isn't overly violent or gory. We do get one dead cop, shoulder shredding, kneecap munching and a pretty cool transformation scene that is oddly reminiscent of the melting corpse in the canister from Return Of The Living Dead. This effect is the most gore we get out of the whole movie so enjoy it while it lasts. On the other hand we get a foul mouthed kid, a really shitty new wave band, a church shoot-out and a foul mouthed critter.

The director would go on to do a bunch of awful Hollywood flicks such as Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. Yuck!!! While I could never bring myself to watch anything else from this director I remain a fan of Critters.

Dee Wallace who plays the mother in The Hills Have Eyes and Cujo once again will play the role of mother. I suppose her character is closer to that of The Hills Have Eyes because she definitely doesn't have the strength that she does in Cujo. She does take out one critter with a shotgun blast but eventually she gets one of those darts to the neck and is pretty useless through the rest of the movie. Wallace being my personal favorite of all mommy-scream-queens I enjoy her presence here.

Grab some beers and some junk food and pig-out with Critters for a Gremlins-esque ripoff from the cheesy 80's.

Herschell Gordon Lewis : The Godfather Of Gore (2010)

As far as all of the exploitation documentarys to come out in the past couple of years this one and American Grindhouse are my two favorites. Herschell Gordon Lewis being my all time favorite director, it is no wonder that I found this documentary to be so great. Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Brain Damage) took on this existing project and re-edits it to what is a 106 minute look into the sleazy world of The Godfather Of Gore.

The documentary starts at the begining in 1959 with The Prime Time and Living Venus. We step further and further into depravity with every title from the great H.G. Lewis. We get discussion on each one and the market value (or devalue) of each film and genre. Lewis of course being a major pioneer in all forms of exploitation, the nudist camp films were amongst the first with Daughter Of The Sun and Natures Playmates but of course it is the darker and meaner stuff that we all know and love the Godfather for. Scum Of The Earth is the one that sort of broke away from the nudie-cutie romps and came in the form of a mean spirted Roughie.

The same year Lewis along with the help of long time partner David F. Friedman would unleash his groundbreaking Blood Feast and introduce grissly gore to film goers. This of course is where the film gets really good. Two Thousand Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red, Gruesome Twosome and Gore Gore Girls all get their screen time and it is great to watch cult favorites talk about them while awesome poster art and bloody images play on the screen behind them. John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble) shares some of his Herschell Gordon Lewis collectibles with us and the great exploitation historian Joe Bob Briggs shares his thoughts, feelings and ideas on the works of Mr. Lewis. We even get some never before seen scenes from unreleased Lewis projects.

H.G. Lewis fans need to see this one and trash-film lovers should also check it out Just For The Hell Of It.

Thy Kill Be Done (2010)

Black Dynamite kicked our ass in 2009 and brought Blaxploitation back to theater goers and before that Black Devil Doll offended all the yuppie, p.c. idiots. Unfortunately as far as exploitation homage/spoof flicks go only Machete would get wide distribution.

In 2010 Greg Hanson dished out his own exploitation flick in a short 16 minute film. Shot on 16mm film Hanson's brand of bad taste comes in the form of a Nunsploitatin flick. A genre that seems to have been forgotten (or was it ignored). Beautifully framed Thy Kill Be Done shows plenty of talent and I personally couldn't help but wish there was a full length version waiting to come out.

The film opens up in church in which a 12 year old boy over doses on heroin before the priest and the entire congregation. The priest hits the streets and confronts a group of drug dealers and a bad-ass 70's style pimp who stabs and kills the preacher with his trusty switchblade. This means only one thing... Vengeance! and the revenge is acted out by three nuns.

We get an amazing Vietnam flashback complete with stock footage of bombs dropping spliced together with machete wielding nuns. We also get a Flying Guillotine homage (Complete with pope-hat hand dismemberment), Nail gun violence, Baseball bat violence (complete with achy-breaky skulls and a ridiculous moment where a bat is shoved down a mans throat), Neck snapping, Gun violence, Machete to the throat and some memorable quotes "Theres a bunch of Nuns down here... Their beating people up".

Its short, its funny and its just plain awesome!