What we have here is a documentary on the king of Corpse Fucking movies, Jeorge Buttgereit. It was put together at the time when Schraam was being filmed and is mainly a composit of behind the scenes footage from Nekromantik part 1 & 2 and Der Todesking.
The films of Jorg Buttgereit are not for the squeamish. They graphically depict sex and death in one of life's most grotesque fetishes. That of course being necrophilia. Corpse Fucking Art is no exception to the rule. It is vile and disgusting but at the same time very interesting.
I remember the first time I saw Nekromantik how incredibly disturbed I was by the movie. Naturally I loved it. The combination of the beautiful score and the nauseating images of sex with dead bodies reminded me of the first time I saw Cannibal Holocaust as a young teenager.
The documentary explains and shows in detail how many of the special effects were achieved for Nekromantik, its sequel and Der Todesking. The craftsmanship, patients and hard work that went into those effects are unbelievable and considering they were done d.i.y., independently and with very little money it is incredible what these young film makers were capable of.
Fans of Buttgereit will not be disappointed. Hopefully disturbed but not disappointed by this crazy documentary from Germany's favorite necrophile.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Street Mobster (1972)
Directed by the same man who would later do Battle Royale and its sequel. This 70's flick tells of a natural born loser. In fact he was born on the day that America dropped the bomb and Japan lost the war. From birth he was condemned a loser. A no good "punk" and that's what he chooses to be.
Our anti-hero is arrested and jailed when convicted for a brutal attack on rival Yakuza gang members. He traps them in a Japanese bath house and goes to town on the naked men with a sharp knife. He cuts them up real good and leaves a bloody mess for the police to find. He also had his hands in drugs, theft and a prostitution racket. In other words the streets of Tokyo are probably a whole lot safer with this man locked in prison.
Once his time is served, our main character decides to get right back into the chaotic mess of gang life. His first stop as a free man is back down to the bath-house where he sliced up his enemies. He enjoys the company of a sexy Asian babe but doesn't manage to get his rocks off before getting into a ass-naked fist fight with some fellow degenerates. Next he forms a small street gang. Together they aimlessly roam the streets and destroy local shops and pick fights with other small time gangs. The message is... Hey we are taking over this town. Stay out of our way or we will smash you up. The only problem is they bite off more then they can chew with a dangerous well established Yakuza clan. They join forces with another Yakuza gang but it is only a matter of time before our self destructive main character insults every major boss from every gang in the city. It is obvious that this man has a death wish and things will be coming to a violent end.
Luckily for us we don't have to wait till the end for violence. This movie is a non stop street fight from beginning to end. Loaded to the brim with stabbings, brutal rape scenes and broken bottle-fu. We also have some incredibly good looking women in this movie. The Street Mobster falls for a girl that he raped and sold off to a whore house in his younger years. We have our share of nudity for added kicks but there is also a compelling story of a hopeless love that runs through the film as a sort of subtext. These two nihilistic characters bond together on the thinnest line between love and hate and their performances make for some pretty emotional scenes.
Street Mobsters offers up frantic camera work that seems to be ahead of its time. Its less obnoxious then the fast cutting movies of today but the formula is similar. With this movie the camera work makes sense. It adds to the chaos of the street violence and reminds me of the race war scene in Romper Stomper that takes place in the streets. Street Mobster also offers up a scene where a mans fingers are chopped off and some nasty gun-violence.
By the time the credits role this one gets a bit repetitive but it still makes for an awesome 70's crime film from Japan.
Our anti-hero is arrested and jailed when convicted for a brutal attack on rival Yakuza gang members. He traps them in a Japanese bath house and goes to town on the naked men with a sharp knife. He cuts them up real good and leaves a bloody mess for the police to find. He also had his hands in drugs, theft and a prostitution racket. In other words the streets of Tokyo are probably a whole lot safer with this man locked in prison.
Once his time is served, our main character decides to get right back into the chaotic mess of gang life. His first stop as a free man is back down to the bath-house where he sliced up his enemies. He enjoys the company of a sexy Asian babe but doesn't manage to get his rocks off before getting into a ass-naked fist fight with some fellow degenerates. Next he forms a small street gang. Together they aimlessly roam the streets and destroy local shops and pick fights with other small time gangs. The message is... Hey we are taking over this town. Stay out of our way or we will smash you up. The only problem is they bite off more then they can chew with a dangerous well established Yakuza clan. They join forces with another Yakuza gang but it is only a matter of time before our self destructive main character insults every major boss from every gang in the city. It is obvious that this man has a death wish and things will be coming to a violent end.
Luckily for us we don't have to wait till the end for violence. This movie is a non stop street fight from beginning to end. Loaded to the brim with stabbings, brutal rape scenes and broken bottle-fu. We also have some incredibly good looking women in this movie. The Street Mobster falls for a girl that he raped and sold off to a whore house in his younger years. We have our share of nudity for added kicks but there is also a compelling story of a hopeless love that runs through the film as a sort of subtext. These two nihilistic characters bond together on the thinnest line between love and hate and their performances make for some pretty emotional scenes.
Street Mobsters offers up frantic camera work that seems to be ahead of its time. Its less obnoxious then the fast cutting movies of today but the formula is similar. With this movie the camera work makes sense. It adds to the chaos of the street violence and reminds me of the race war scene in Romper Stomper that takes place in the streets. Street Mobster also offers up a scene where a mans fingers are chopped off and some nasty gun-violence.
By the time the credits role this one gets a bit repetitive but it still makes for an awesome 70's crime film from Japan.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
City On Fire (1987)
Yes I admit, I am one of the many who felt it necessary to check this movie out after it became known that Quentin Tarantino riped it off when he did Reservoir Dogs. I also admit to being a fan of Tarantino and don't waste my time calling him a hack. I am aware that he rips every movie off in order to create something entertaining for us cinema fanatics. Lady Snow Blood and even The Blood Spattered Bride were not safe from Kill Bill. This still doesn't make Tarantino's movies any less entertaining for me.
City On Fire tells the oh so familiar story of an undercover cop who meets with some burglars for a jewelry heist. Instead of Tim Roth, Chow Yun-Fat plays our sneaky piggy. He takes a bullet during the heist and dies in the final showdown. The famous "Who killed Nice Guy Eddie" scene was lifted directly from City On Fire and in my humble opinion City On Fire ends on even more of a downer note and that is because there is more going on in the Chinese film. I wouldn't go as far as to say there is more character development because Tarantino really knows how to write interesting characters with witty dialogue but City On Fire has much more back story.
Chow Yun-Fat's character is ready to be married and loses his girl due to the fact that he is always working on top secret and dangerous police cases. All he wants is out of the police force but they will not except his resignation until this final mission is completed. This makes it all the more shocking when he dies in the end of the film.
City On Fire also comes complete with dead cops, car explosions, knife to the hand, hot Asian women, really bad dancing, slimy skulls and proves that work and pleasure should never mix.
Is it better then Reservoir Dogs? I can't really say. It was definitely first. I like both movies for different reasons. I will say I think it takes a lot of talent to form a story like Reservoir Dogs from this movie. Every Tarantino fan should check this movie out for themselves and perhaps the world will stop viewing the man as a genius and take him for what he is. A man who makes over budgeted exploitation flicks with roots that date back to when he was just a school-boy movie-geek.
City On Fire tells the oh so familiar story of an undercover cop who meets with some burglars for a jewelry heist. Instead of Tim Roth, Chow Yun-Fat plays our sneaky piggy. He takes a bullet during the heist and dies in the final showdown. The famous "Who killed Nice Guy Eddie" scene was lifted directly from City On Fire and in my humble opinion City On Fire ends on even more of a downer note and that is because there is more going on in the Chinese film. I wouldn't go as far as to say there is more character development because Tarantino really knows how to write interesting characters with witty dialogue but City On Fire has much more back story.
Chow Yun-Fat's character is ready to be married and loses his girl due to the fact that he is always working on top secret and dangerous police cases. All he wants is out of the police force but they will not except his resignation until this final mission is completed. This makes it all the more shocking when he dies in the end of the film.
City On Fire also comes complete with dead cops, car explosions, knife to the hand, hot Asian women, really bad dancing, slimy skulls and proves that work and pleasure should never mix.
Is it better then Reservoir Dogs? I can't really say. It was definitely first. I like both movies for different reasons. I will say I think it takes a lot of talent to form a story like Reservoir Dogs from this movie. Every Tarantino fan should check this movie out for themselves and perhaps the world will stop viewing the man as a genius and take him for what he is. A man who makes over budgeted exploitation flicks with roots that date back to when he was just a school-boy movie-geek.
Clerks 2 (2006)
Its not to often that I watch a comedy. Or at least what was supposed to be a comedy but the Clerks movies are a bit different. They are fan-boy movies. Movies for argumentative assholes like myself. Not to mention that I have been mistaken for and compared to the character of Randal for rears now. I suppose we do have some similarities with the exception of his love for Star Wars.
Personally I couldn't give a shit about Jay & Silent Bob. I know people like them in real life and I fucking despise them. They remind me of all those I.C.P cunts who walk around with big baggy UFO pants and smoke a lot of weed. The character of Dante is a cry baby, pussy but when you throw Randal into the mix it makes for high entertainment filled with witty dialogue and lots of filthy language.
There are quite a few differences between Clerks 2 and the first film. For starters this time around the movie was shot in color. We also have a much obvious bigger budget and in my humble opinion the second film isn't quite as good as the first but it does make for a fun watch with new chaotic antics and plenty of silly arguments that get stuck in your warped mind leaving you ready to quote it for weeks after the first viewing.
I think they made a wise decision when they casted Rosario Dawson (Kids, Descent) for a bit of sex appeal... Something that the first film lacked. Unfortunately she doesn't offer up any bare breasted boobage but she is still nice to look at, even if she is dancing to The Jackson 5.
This one starts off with the old video-mart burning to the ground. Leaving our two beloved Clerks unemployed and forced to work at a greasy burger, fast food joint. Dawson plays their manager and she has a secret affair with Dante. The only problem is that Dante is due to be married any day. Randal makes things a little more humorous by doing Dante the favor of ordering him a live donkey show from Mexico. For those of you who grew up under a rock and don't know what a donkey show is... It's when a woman performs oral sex on a donkey. So get ready for some mouth watering donkey-dongs. We also have plenty of christian mockery going on in here so all you religious weirdos might want to stay away from this one. Besides a free donkey show is way to much of a turn on for those people. Throw in some young altar boys and this thing might be considered a porno for god fearing morons.
Clerks also offers up a touch of racism for added fun. Every racial slur you can think of is used but porch-monkey is Randal's favorite. "Porch-Monkey for life". Clerks 2 has a happy ending... Aside from the donkey show. Its a love story and a comedy (Yuck). In other words its a great movie for the demented to watch with their best girl. So check it out you p.c. bastards!
Personally I couldn't give a shit about Jay & Silent Bob. I know people like them in real life and I fucking despise them. They remind me of all those I.C.P cunts who walk around with big baggy UFO pants and smoke a lot of weed. The character of Dante is a cry baby, pussy but when you throw Randal into the mix it makes for high entertainment filled with witty dialogue and lots of filthy language.
There are quite a few differences between Clerks 2 and the first film. For starters this time around the movie was shot in color. We also have a much obvious bigger budget and in my humble opinion the second film isn't quite as good as the first but it does make for a fun watch with new chaotic antics and plenty of silly arguments that get stuck in your warped mind leaving you ready to quote it for weeks after the first viewing.
I think they made a wise decision when they casted Rosario Dawson (Kids, Descent) for a bit of sex appeal... Something that the first film lacked. Unfortunately she doesn't offer up any bare breasted boobage but she is still nice to look at, even if she is dancing to The Jackson 5.
This one starts off with the old video-mart burning to the ground. Leaving our two beloved Clerks unemployed and forced to work at a greasy burger, fast food joint. Dawson plays their manager and she has a secret affair with Dante. The only problem is that Dante is due to be married any day. Randal makes things a little more humorous by doing Dante the favor of ordering him a live donkey show from Mexico. For those of you who grew up under a rock and don't know what a donkey show is... It's when a woman performs oral sex on a donkey. So get ready for some mouth watering donkey-dongs. We also have plenty of christian mockery going on in here so all you religious weirdos might want to stay away from this one. Besides a free donkey show is way to much of a turn on for those people. Throw in some young altar boys and this thing might be considered a porno for god fearing morons.
Clerks also offers up a touch of racism for added fun. Every racial slur you can think of is used but porch-monkey is Randal's favorite. "Porch-Monkey for life". Clerks 2 has a happy ending... Aside from the donkey show. Its a love story and a comedy (Yuck). In other words its a great movie for the demented to watch with their best girl. So check it out you p.c. bastards!
Reefer Madness (1936)
This cult classic is amongst the most important of all teen-scare, drugsploitation flick. Its also been released as Tell Your Children in 1938 and Dope Addict, Doped Youth, Love Madness and The Burning Question.
Reefer Madness shows marijuana as you have never seen it before. An evil, evil drug! and I don't mean evil in the sense of a bunch of long haired smelly hippies talking about peace and love... I'm talking about crazed gun slinging mobsters who are quick to turn the youth onto "the devils weed".
According to Reefer Madness, marijuana isn't the mellow drug that you thought it was. Belly-laughs turn to madness and anything can happen from violent beatings with a cane to murder. The most memorable scene shows a man excessively smoking grass while a woman plays the piano. "Bring me some reefers". "Play it faster! Faster! Play it faster!"
I was lucky enough to catch this thing in the theater in a strange colorized version. Not that the color made the film any better it was just something different. The main thing that I found interesting about the colorized version was that the clouds of smoke was all different crazy colors. Each person exhaled a different color smoke. We had reds, blues, yellows, purples etc.
Anybody who is into teen-scare movies or exploitation films in general is usually familiar with this one. Its by no means a great example of good film making. Its loaded with bad acting, bad editing and very strange camera perspectives. We have a horrible special effect in a court house with a swinging noose and very silly dialogue. In other words its a bad example of film making but a good example in exploitation and bad taste.
Reefer Madness comes complete with a car crash, the obvious gratuitous marijuana smoking, death by hand gun, a suicide (complete with leap through a window), excessive laughing, violent cane-fu, crazy haircuts, and lots of youngster making out in a stoned stupor.
Reefer Madness shows marijuana as you have never seen it before. An evil, evil drug! and I don't mean evil in the sense of a bunch of long haired smelly hippies talking about peace and love... I'm talking about crazed gun slinging mobsters who are quick to turn the youth onto "the devils weed".
According to Reefer Madness, marijuana isn't the mellow drug that you thought it was. Belly-laughs turn to madness and anything can happen from violent beatings with a cane to murder. The most memorable scene shows a man excessively smoking grass while a woman plays the piano. "Bring me some reefers". "Play it faster! Faster! Play it faster!"
I was lucky enough to catch this thing in the theater in a strange colorized version. Not that the color made the film any better it was just something different. The main thing that I found interesting about the colorized version was that the clouds of smoke was all different crazy colors. Each person exhaled a different color smoke. We had reds, blues, yellows, purples etc.
Anybody who is into teen-scare movies or exploitation films in general is usually familiar with this one. Its by no means a great example of good film making. Its loaded with bad acting, bad editing and very strange camera perspectives. We have a horrible special effect in a court house with a swinging noose and very silly dialogue. In other words its a bad example of film making but a good example in exploitation and bad taste.
Reefer Madness comes complete with a car crash, the obvious gratuitous marijuana smoking, death by hand gun, a suicide (complete with leap through a window), excessive laughing, violent cane-fu, crazy haircuts, and lots of youngster making out in a stoned stupor.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Vagabond Loafers (1949)
This Edward Bernds remake of Del Lords 1940 Three Stooges romp A Plumbing We Will Go holds up well to the crazy escapades that Curly offered up nine years earlier. I prefer the 1940 flick a touch more but they are both very good and jam packed with goofs and laughs.
The Stooges get their hands wet as plumbers. Their company name is Day And Nite Plumbers and they got their first call to mansion where the upper class scum is holding a party. Amongst the yuppies are two criminals on a mission to steal a priceless painting.
On the Stooges arrival they are of course talked down upon. By now we all know that every Three Stooges short is a class-war disguised as a comedy. The Stooges get back at the rich bastards by destroying their home and hitting the butlers over the head with heavy pipes. They flood the kitchen, bathroom, basement and hallways. Watter pours from the television and light fixtures in buckets.
Shemp's take on the maze of pipes in the famous bathtub scene is almost as good as Curly's. Larry goes a bit nuts with a blowtorch and sets Moe's ass on fire. Larry also roams around in covered from head to toe in white powder and the guests run from him. Moe "How much do you charge to haunt a house" Larry "Depends... How many rooms".
The Stooges save the day this time and catch the bandits. Of course they get no reward and they leave the mansion flooded with water.
One of the best of all Three Stooges remakes!
The Stooges get their hands wet as plumbers. Their company name is Day And Nite Plumbers and they got their first call to mansion where the upper class scum is holding a party. Amongst the yuppies are two criminals on a mission to steal a priceless painting.
On the Stooges arrival they are of course talked down upon. By now we all know that every Three Stooges short is a class-war disguised as a comedy. The Stooges get back at the rich bastards by destroying their home and hitting the butlers over the head with heavy pipes. They flood the kitchen, bathroom, basement and hallways. Watter pours from the television and light fixtures in buckets.
Shemp's take on the maze of pipes in the famous bathtub scene is almost as good as Curly's. Larry goes a bit nuts with a blowtorch and sets Moe's ass on fire. Larry also roams around in covered from head to toe in white powder and the guests run from him. Moe "How much do you charge to haunt a house" Larry "Depends... How many rooms".
The Stooges save the day this time and catch the bandits. Of course they get no reward and they leave the mansion flooded with water.
One of the best of all Three Stooges remakes!
The Burning Moon (1997)
I have heard people compare this movie to Nekromantik which is a bit ridiculous to me. The production value doesn't compete with Nekromantik or any of Jorge Buttgereit films for that matter. For me it plays more like an Andreas Shnaas flick. Sure Burning Moon is better then Violent Shit or any of the sequels but it has that same low budget shot on video feel to it.
On the upper hand The Burning Moon is a complete and total splatter-house gore-fest. The gore surpasses Violent Shit by the gallons and for this reason alone The Burning Moon is a must see for all gore-hounds and special effects geeks alike. The blood comes by the buckets with multiple decapitations and severed heads galore. The best and most gory scene shows a man being tortured in hell. Visually if you want a great portrayal of hell you should go with Coffin Joe and At Midnights I'll Take Your Soul or Awakening Of The Beast but if blood and guts is what you are looking for you better check out The Burning Moon. A man in brutally mutilated. He has his teeth drilled out with a power tool in true Driller Killer fashion. Next he is cut up with a big knife and eventually spilt in half in a scene that is oddly reminiscent of Lucio Fulci's Demonia which came out seven years prior.
The Burning Moon is actually an anthology film. It tells of a junkie in a street gang who enjoys shooting smack and looking up at The Burning Moon. He also likes to tuck his baby sister in to bed and tell her gruesome bedtime stories. The first story is about a serial killer on a blind date. This one comes complete with a few decapitations. One of which shows the killer throwing the severed head of a prostitute out of his car window into a passing motorists windshield. This pisses the victim off and he goes gun crazy and shoots a man in the head (complete with head explosion). How a little hand gun causes a overly gory head explosion... I'm not sure but it sure is fucking fun to watch. This story also offers up a burning corpse in a bathtub. A machete through a mans face. Fingers are lobbed off, arms are chopped off etc.
The next story tells of a perverted priest in the oh so familiar story of a man doing the work of god and cleansing the world of its filth. This one offers up a nasty rape scene, more gun violence and the infamous hell scene which for me makes the whole movie worth while. Some of the other treats that The Burning Moon as to offer is an awesome scene where grandpa kills a young boys mother right before his eyes, silly Violent Shit style dialogue, and eyeball's being ripped out and shoved into a victims mouth. The eye in the mouth is shot through a weird point of view. Maybe this scene was shot in tonsil-vision.
All in all I'm not a big fan of 99% of all shot on video movies. I think they are shit and always look like some little kid shot it in their bathroom but The Burning Moon stands out amongst the stacks of crap for its over the top bloodletting. Check it out if you're a sicko like me who can enjoy the simple pleasures of red stuff.
On the upper hand The Burning Moon is a complete and total splatter-house gore-fest. The gore surpasses Violent Shit by the gallons and for this reason alone The Burning Moon is a must see for all gore-hounds and special effects geeks alike. The blood comes by the buckets with multiple decapitations and severed heads galore. The best and most gory scene shows a man being tortured in hell. Visually if you want a great portrayal of hell you should go with Coffin Joe and At Midnights I'll Take Your Soul or Awakening Of The Beast but if blood and guts is what you are looking for you better check out The Burning Moon. A man in brutally mutilated. He has his teeth drilled out with a power tool in true Driller Killer fashion. Next he is cut up with a big knife and eventually spilt in half in a scene that is oddly reminiscent of Lucio Fulci's Demonia which came out seven years prior.
The Burning Moon is actually an anthology film. It tells of a junkie in a street gang who enjoys shooting smack and looking up at The Burning Moon. He also likes to tuck his baby sister in to bed and tell her gruesome bedtime stories. The first story is about a serial killer on a blind date. This one comes complete with a few decapitations. One of which shows the killer throwing the severed head of a prostitute out of his car window into a passing motorists windshield. This pisses the victim off and he goes gun crazy and shoots a man in the head (complete with head explosion). How a little hand gun causes a overly gory head explosion... I'm not sure but it sure is fucking fun to watch. This story also offers up a burning corpse in a bathtub. A machete through a mans face. Fingers are lobbed off, arms are chopped off etc.
The next story tells of a perverted priest in the oh so familiar story of a man doing the work of god and cleansing the world of its filth. This one offers up a nasty rape scene, more gun violence and the infamous hell scene which for me makes the whole movie worth while. Some of the other treats that The Burning Moon as to offer is an awesome scene where grandpa kills a young boys mother right before his eyes, silly Violent Shit style dialogue, and eyeball's being ripped out and shoved into a victims mouth. The eye in the mouth is shot through a weird point of view. Maybe this scene was shot in tonsil-vision.
All in all I'm not a big fan of 99% of all shot on video movies. I think they are shit and always look like some little kid shot it in their bathroom but The Burning Moon stands out amongst the stacks of crap for its over the top bloodletting. Check it out if you're a sicko like me who can enjoy the simple pleasures of red stuff.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Teen Scenes (1984-198?)
I recently picked this Christy Canyon Tripple Feature # 5 and felt pretty gyped when I learned that Teen Scenes wasn't in fact a feature at all. You should not be able to market a dvd pack as a tripple bill when one of the supposed movies is not a feature but instead is a shitty compilation.
They took all of the Christy Canyon footage from banned Traci Lords flicks and spliced it all together and called it Teen Scenes. Now I suppose this is a treat for Canyon fans who are upright citizens and stay clear of the Lords kiddie stuff but for me it is out right blasphemy to package it as a movie.
This Canyon set sucks the big one. Kissin Cousins is the better of the two shot on video movies on here but that still isn't saying much. Little Girls Of The Streets is total shit and well you already know my feelings on Teen Scenes. Skip this dvd and pick up a nice Vanessa Del Rio tripple feature from Alpha Blue Archives instead.
They took all of the Christy Canyon footage from banned Traci Lords flicks and spliced it all together and called it Teen Scenes. Now I suppose this is a treat for Canyon fans who are upright citizens and stay clear of the Lords kiddie stuff but for me it is out right blasphemy to package it as a movie.
This Canyon set sucks the big one. Kissin Cousins is the better of the two shot on video movies on here but that still isn't saying much. Little Girls Of The Streets is total shit and well you already know my feelings on Teen Scenes. Skip this dvd and pick up a nice Vanessa Del Rio tripple feature from Alpha Blue Archives instead.
Little Girls Of The Streets (1984)
Here is another cheapo shot on video Christy Canyon flick from 1984. From the same filmakers, if you can call them that, who did Kissin Cousins. In fact the same couch from Kissin Cousins shows up and so do a couple of other rooms and objects. Its pretty obvious that these two movies were shot back to back and while Cousins was pretty fucking awful, Little Girls Of The Street is even worse.
This one starts off like it is going to be a real movie with somewhat of a plot but it turns out to be just a bunch of fucking and sucking scenes. A pimp puts his bitches out on the streets because he owes some money to some powerful dudes... That's it... That's the story. Christy Canyon has a threesome with two dudes and Scott Irish shows up to do some dirty work as well. I fucking hate Scott Irish and this time he has trouble getting it up.
This movie sucks pretty fucking bad! Only worth a watch for Canyon's giant melon heavy breasts. Actually there is a nice looking brunette thrown into the mix as well but other then that skip this stupid little fuck-tape from the 80's.
This one starts off like it is going to be a real movie with somewhat of a plot but it turns out to be just a bunch of fucking and sucking scenes. A pimp puts his bitches out on the streets because he owes some money to some powerful dudes... That's it... That's the story. Christy Canyon has a threesome with two dudes and Scott Irish shows up to do some dirty work as well. I fucking hate Scott Irish and this time he has trouble getting it up.
This movie sucks pretty fucking bad! Only worth a watch for Canyon's giant melon heavy breasts. Actually there is a nice looking brunette thrown into the mix as well but other then that skip this stupid little fuck-tape from the 80's.
Over The Edge (1979)
This was the sort of thing I day dreamed about when I was a young kid in school. The kids banning together and revolting against parents, teachers and any other authority figure. Destroying the school and maybe blowing it up... Fuck it!
Well needless to say it never happened in my town but luckily for me movies like Over The Edge gives me the vandalism to school property that I crave oh so much. Being a fan of the 50's juvenile delinquent films and the 80's punxploitation films like Class Of 1984 and Class Of Nuke Em High and any other movie that portrays a youth gone wild.
Over The Edge is kind of like a cross between The Rivers Edge and Rock N' Roll High School which came out the same year. The music of The Ramones can be heard on the soundtrack but this movie doesn't attempt to be funny at all.
Matt Dillon shows up in his first screen appearance ever and he looks like a baby. Lucky for us he doesn't act like one and neither do any of these kids. They drink, smoke weed, drop acid, pack knives & guns and the streets are more then their stomping grounds. They are their battlefield. "Any kid who tells on another kid... is a dead kid". The director would go on to do Truck Turner which is also pretty awesome. We also have a cop that looks a lot like Tom Towels from Henry : Portrait Of A Serial Killer but I am yet to have this confirmed.
Most of the kids in this movie seem doomed from the start. A dead-end town with nothing to do but burn-out. Matt Dillon's character seems to be the most nihilistic and have a certain death-wish. He is eventually shot and killed by the police and the kids revolt by locking the teachers, parents and local police inside the school. The blow up the adults cars and destroy everything in sight. There is this perfect scene of symbolism that shows a young mute kid skateboarding through dark school hallways with sunglasses on and an open knife in his hand. This image struck me the hardest and is probably over looked by most but what better way to portray a generation of nihilistic youth?
Over The Edge also offers up street fights, a dead cop and an awesome bad trip in the classroom. This is must see for anyone who loves juvenile delinquent films!
Well needless to say it never happened in my town but luckily for me movies like Over The Edge gives me the vandalism to school property that I crave oh so much. Being a fan of the 50's juvenile delinquent films and the 80's punxploitation films like Class Of 1984 and Class Of Nuke Em High and any other movie that portrays a youth gone wild.
Over The Edge is kind of like a cross between The Rivers Edge and Rock N' Roll High School which came out the same year. The music of The Ramones can be heard on the soundtrack but this movie doesn't attempt to be funny at all.
Matt Dillon shows up in his first screen appearance ever and he looks like a baby. Lucky for us he doesn't act like one and neither do any of these kids. They drink, smoke weed, drop acid, pack knives & guns and the streets are more then their stomping grounds. They are their battlefield. "Any kid who tells on another kid... is a dead kid". The director would go on to do Truck Turner which is also pretty awesome. We also have a cop that looks a lot like Tom Towels from Henry : Portrait Of A Serial Killer but I am yet to have this confirmed.
Most of the kids in this movie seem doomed from the start. A dead-end town with nothing to do but burn-out. Matt Dillon's character seems to be the most nihilistic and have a certain death-wish. He is eventually shot and killed by the police and the kids revolt by locking the teachers, parents and local police inside the school. The blow up the adults cars and destroy everything in sight. There is this perfect scene of symbolism that shows a young mute kid skateboarding through dark school hallways with sunglasses on and an open knife in his hand. This image struck me the hardest and is probably over looked by most but what better way to portray a generation of nihilistic youth?
Over The Edge also offers up street fights, a dead cop and an awesome bad trip in the classroom. This is must see for anyone who loves juvenile delinquent films!
Kissin Cousins (1984)
Christy Canyon did her first porno movie in 1984. The same year she did about a dozen more. Kissin Cousins is amongst the 1984 dirty dozen. It is sort of a remake of Kirdy Stevens Playing With Fire but no where near as good.
Christy Canyon and her two brothers move into their uncle and three cousins house. Yes there will definitely be some cousin kissin... Herschell Savage plays uncle and he sticks it to his own sister meanwhile the kids are fucking like rabbits. We get some general oral-fu and even some anal antics. Canyon doesn't do the dirty until the final scene because she plays the good girl virgin. Canyon is billed as Tara Wine in this one and she looks pretty good or at least her tits do. To bad the movie is a total piece of shit.
Shot on video with the most minimal of story lines, Kissin Cousins offers up Scott Irish who looks stupid in every movie but at least he can get it up. That is more then we can say for the other dip-shit with the mustache in this movie. Its pretty sad but its obvious that they had to edit around this limp-dick scum bag. They choose abnormal angles with the hope that we wouldn't realize he can't get it up. Characters appear and disappear from the scene and it makes for some of the worst continuity in pornographic history.
Watch for Canyons cannons and that's it!
Christy Canyon and her two brothers move into their uncle and three cousins house. Yes there will definitely be some cousin kissin... Herschell Savage plays uncle and he sticks it to his own sister meanwhile the kids are fucking like rabbits. We get some general oral-fu and even some anal antics. Canyon doesn't do the dirty until the final scene because she plays the good girl virgin. Canyon is billed as Tara Wine in this one and she looks pretty good or at least her tits do. To bad the movie is a total piece of shit.
Shot on video with the most minimal of story lines, Kissin Cousins offers up Scott Irish who looks stupid in every movie but at least he can get it up. That is more then we can say for the other dip-shit with the mustache in this movie. Its pretty sad but its obvious that they had to edit around this limp-dick scum bag. They choose abnormal angles with the hope that we wouldn't realize he can't get it up. Characters appear and disappear from the scene and it makes for some of the worst continuity in pornographic history.
Watch for Canyons cannons and that's it!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
The Unholy Three (1925)
Tod Browning and Lon Chaney do it again. Browning delivers another amazing movie from the enviorment that he feel most comfortable from... The circus side show.
Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist in a circus side show named Echo. The name suits him well since he has the ability to project his voice in such a fashion that nobody can tell where it is coming from. Echo teams up with the circus dwarf played by Harry Earles who we all know and love as Hans from Browning's Freaks and the strong man Hercules. Together the three criminals plot out the crime of a lifetime.
Chaney disguises himself as an old woman and Harry Earles posses as a infant. Hercules plays the babies father. They steal some expensive jewelery from some very wealthy people. Things go wrong and eventually the three criminals kill a man. Its not long before the law is on there ass and they have to decide whether or not to run or keep up the act and stay in character.
First off Harry Earles is amazing and really does pass as a baby. Chaney is great as usual but I had a harder time believing him as the old woman then I did Earles as an infant.
They also did a talkie version of the film in 1930. The remake would be Chaney's last film and the only time he ever spoke on film. I have never seen the remake and don't really even feel the need to because the original is just to good on its own. Its funny because this particular Tod Browning & Lon Chaney collaboration is greatly over looked. Everybody talks about the great Alonzo The Armless which would come out two years after this film and of course the remake due to the fact that it was Chaney's last picture. Its shame because The Unholy Three really is another great. It has a level of realism in the violence that sort of surpasses all other Browning films that I have seen.
In one very gratuitous moment of violence Harry Earles kicks a child in the face. The scene comes complete with blood that pours from a child's smashed in nose. This is something that you wouldn't see in your average movie even by today's standards. The movie also comes complete with a bad-ass killer gorilla but unlike the remake and the talkies that would follow in the 30's and 40's this is not a man in a gorilla suit. The used a real ape and with some movie magic managed to make this thing look enormous and vicious as hell. Echo keeps the ape for his own protection and yes we do get some crazy ape-fu. Aside from the violence we have the expected subplot of a doomed love story which is necessary for every Chaney picture. Chaney's performance is touching as usual and despite how evil the character of Echo is the audience once again can't help but feel sorry for this heart broken man.
China Cat (1978)
Oh ya gotta love the Johnny Wadd series... The China Cat is Bob Chinn's follow up to The Jade Pussycat which came out one year earlier in 1977. The two movies are a lot alike and it seems by this time Bob Chinn was content with following a certain formula for the Wadd movies and just collecting the check later.
This still doesn't make the films any less entertaining. The China Cat is fun from beginning to end. However the main focus is sex this time around and we don't really get any fight scenes or Johnny Wadd-fu that we all love so much.
However we do get a typical 70's porn good natured rape scene that involves a botched up assassination from a foxy Asian babe. Obviously Mr. 13 and a half is going to pay his revenge through his deadliest of weapons. We also have some chloroform shenanigans in a scene where a girl soaks her vagina with the sleepy-chemicals. Naturally Wadd goes to put his tongue to work and before you know it we have a passed out private dick on our hands.
John Holmes is pretty awesome in this movie and he looks a bit more healthy then usual. Perhaps Chinn wouldn't allow him to get fucked up before shoots this time around. What ever the case, Holmes is on top of his game in this one and he plays Wadd like the suave, bad-ass mother fucker that he is supposed to be.
He bangs everyone from his secretary to his worst enemy. One of the girls in the film was brave enough for some Holmes anal-fu. Before sticking it up the old poop-chute Holmes delivers this line "You smile now... We will see later". Fucking awesome! The actress must have been mortified... Afraid or not she takes it like a champ. Holmes is typically limp in The China Cat but in more then one scene he appears to be more then halfway erect.
The story tells of four women known as "The Devils" who are on a mission to steal the priceless Jade Pussycat from Johnny Wadd. Of course they all fuck him and of course none of them get the pussycat.
The creepy Dale Meador (China De Sade, Behind The Green Door) shows up as a servant named Jaspers and Desiree Cousteau has a brief blowjob scene which comes complete with some of the most ridiculous voice dubbing and forms what is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. Fortunately this scene is right in the beginning and sets the pace for the whole movie. Unfortunately the rest of the film is nowhere near as chaotic as the opening moments. None the less The China Cat is yet another great collaboration between Chinn and Holmes and makes for another awesome Wadd flick! Oh and watch for the scenes where John Holmes makes his sexy-face... His hair moves with his face.
This still doesn't make the films any less entertaining. The China Cat is fun from beginning to end. However the main focus is sex this time around and we don't really get any fight scenes or Johnny Wadd-fu that we all love so much.
However we do get a typical 70's porn good natured rape scene that involves a botched up assassination from a foxy Asian babe. Obviously Mr. 13 and a half is going to pay his revenge through his deadliest of weapons. We also have some chloroform shenanigans in a scene where a girl soaks her vagina with the sleepy-chemicals. Naturally Wadd goes to put his tongue to work and before you know it we have a passed out private dick on our hands.
John Holmes is pretty awesome in this movie and he looks a bit more healthy then usual. Perhaps Chinn wouldn't allow him to get fucked up before shoots this time around. What ever the case, Holmes is on top of his game in this one and he plays Wadd like the suave, bad-ass mother fucker that he is supposed to be.
He bangs everyone from his secretary to his worst enemy. One of the girls in the film was brave enough for some Holmes anal-fu. Before sticking it up the old poop-chute Holmes delivers this line "You smile now... We will see later". Fucking awesome! The actress must have been mortified... Afraid or not she takes it like a champ. Holmes is typically limp in The China Cat but in more then one scene he appears to be more then halfway erect.
The story tells of four women known as "The Devils" who are on a mission to steal the priceless Jade Pussycat from Johnny Wadd. Of course they all fuck him and of course none of them get the pussycat.
The creepy Dale Meador (China De Sade, Behind The Green Door) shows up as a servant named Jaspers and Desiree Cousteau has a brief blowjob scene which comes complete with some of the most ridiculous voice dubbing and forms what is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. Fortunately this scene is right in the beginning and sets the pace for the whole movie. Unfortunately the rest of the film is nowhere near as chaotic as the opening moments. None the less The China Cat is yet another great collaboration between Chinn and Holmes and makes for another awesome Wadd flick! Oh and watch for the scenes where John Holmes makes his sexy-face... His hair moves with his face.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Enslaved Brunette (195?)
One of Irving Klaw's early bondage stag films. This one shows three babes in a bit of a bind. It involves a submissive brunette being bound and dominated by what looks like a red-head and her blond bondage maid. Fist she is tied around the wrists and ankles and spanked. Then she is hog tied and bound into a sort of pulley system.
Apparently Enslaved Brunette offers some of the best rope work in any Irving Klaw film. Personally not being into bondage I really couldn't judge. Being into cinema on the other hand I can tell you that Enslave Brunette is a nice little oddity in the tasteless archives of stag films. If 50's babes in big undergarments is your thing be sure to give this one a go!
Apparently Enslaved Brunette offers some of the best rope work in any Irving Klaw film. Personally not being into bondage I really couldn't judge. Being into cinema on the other hand I can tell you that Enslave Brunette is a nice little oddity in the tasteless archives of stag films. If 50's babes in big undergarments is your thing be sure to give this one a go!
The Burning (1981)
Take Friday The 13th and mix in elements of Don't Go In The House and you would come out with The Burning. The Burning would come out only one year after Friday The 13th and Don't Go In The House and steals from both..
1980 is my favorite year for slasher films. So many great ones would terrorize theater goers. Movies like Maniac, The Prowler and Don't Answer The Phone are amongst my favorites from this year and movies like The Burning are here to show that the stalk and slash movies are going to stick around for a while and the simple formula in movie massacre will continue to bring people into the theater seats. The Burning is a pretty gory movie and while it may start a bit on the slow side it really takes off once we get to the infamous raft scene where our killer takes out four teenagers at once.
The killers name is Cropsy. His victims are the teenagers at a summer camp that he used to work at. His reason for killing is a form of vengeance. Cropsy's face and body is horribly disfigured to from a prank gone wrong, in which he suffered severe burns. His weapon of choice is a giant pair of garden sheers. Why use regular old scissors when you can use a huge fucking pair of scissors?
This movie is mostly remembered for the raft scene that I mentioned before. In what is probably less then a minute of runtime we have three fingers being chopped off in gory detail, A fatal throat wound, Face slashing and brutal stabbings.
The great Tom Savini did the special effects for this one and we all know the man was at the top of his game when this one came around. We also have some nasty flame thrower-fu that would give the average Don't Go In The House fan-boy a hard-on.
We do get some bare breasts and bush on display and not to mention a very young George Costanza from the Seinfeld television series in his first screen appearance. Unfortunately we don't get to see George get killed and chopped to bits. Maybe when Hollywood decides to remake this one they can kill that old prick off.
Some of the other fun that The Burning has to offer is dead hookers, maggot infested severed heads, axe to the achy-breaky skull, perverted nerds, typical 80's tough-guy bully's, and lots of gory puncture wounds.
Fans of this movie should also check out the Italian slasher Haunts. That one offers up a black gloved killer using scissors as a weapon of choice. While they might not cause quite as much damage as garden sheers its still worth a watch. "Trust me baby. You're gonna love it".
1980 is my favorite year for slasher films. So many great ones would terrorize theater goers. Movies like Maniac, The Prowler and Don't Answer The Phone are amongst my favorites from this year and movies like The Burning are here to show that the stalk and slash movies are going to stick around for a while and the simple formula in movie massacre will continue to bring people into the theater seats. The Burning is a pretty gory movie and while it may start a bit on the slow side it really takes off once we get to the infamous raft scene where our killer takes out four teenagers at once.
The killers name is Cropsy. His victims are the teenagers at a summer camp that he used to work at. His reason for killing is a form of vengeance. Cropsy's face and body is horribly disfigured to from a prank gone wrong, in which he suffered severe burns. His weapon of choice is a giant pair of garden sheers. Why use regular old scissors when you can use a huge fucking pair of scissors?
This movie is mostly remembered for the raft scene that I mentioned before. In what is probably less then a minute of runtime we have three fingers being chopped off in gory detail, A fatal throat wound, Face slashing and brutal stabbings.
The great Tom Savini did the special effects for this one and we all know the man was at the top of his game when this one came around. We also have some nasty flame thrower-fu that would give the average Don't Go In The House fan-boy a hard-on.
We do get some bare breasts and bush on display and not to mention a very young George Costanza from the Seinfeld television series in his first screen appearance. Unfortunately we don't get to see George get killed and chopped to bits. Maybe when Hollywood decides to remake this one they can kill that old prick off.
Some of the other fun that The Burning has to offer is dead hookers, maggot infested severed heads, axe to the achy-breaky skull, perverted nerds, typical 80's tough-guy bully's, and lots of gory puncture wounds.
Fans of this movie should also check out the Italian slasher Haunts. That one offers up a black gloved killer using scissors as a weapon of choice. While they might not cause quite as much damage as garden sheers its still worth a watch. "Trust me baby. You're gonna love it".
Stomp! Shout! Scream! (2005)
Okay this thing would be retitled for its dvd release in 2009 and go by the name Monster Beach Party A Go-Go. The dvd title should scream out to genre fans. Obviously a mix between the 60's beach party flicks and monster movies. A homage to movies like The Horror Of Party Beach but while The Horror Of Party Beach is an all around awesome movie with monsters, gruesome death and surf rock. Stomp! Shout! Scream! is pretty much a giant turd.
This one tells of a all girl garage-rock group who cross paths with "The Skunk Ape" also known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. However I couldn't help but be reminded of the awful Curse OF Bigfoot because this thing doesn't look like a monster at all. It is just another guy in a gorilla suit movie (Ape) that were so popular in the 30's and 40's.
I would say the only redeeming value that Stomp! Shout! Scream! has to offer is the wardrobe and a few cool garage rock bands like The Woggles. Everything else is pretty bad, boring and unwatchable. We don't get to see any on screen murder which always knocks points off of any monster movie. We don't get any nudity which is also a shame.
We do get some scattered body parts and severed limbs with a slight touch of the red stuff. We also have our fair share of bikini clad bimbos doing their best Go-Go dance routines on the beach. We have a couple of lines that may get a chuckle out of one or two of you and a pretty funny song about syphilis. Other then that Stomp! Shout! Scream is a complete waste of time.
For a much better homage flick check out the blaxploitation throwback Black Dynamite. That one is great from beginning to end. It stays true to the genre and never lets you down. Stay away from this Skunk-Ape... It stinks!
This one tells of a all girl garage-rock group who cross paths with "The Skunk Ape" also known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. However I couldn't help but be reminded of the awful Curse OF Bigfoot because this thing doesn't look like a monster at all. It is just another guy in a gorilla suit movie (Ape) that were so popular in the 30's and 40's.
I would say the only redeeming value that Stomp! Shout! Scream! has to offer is the wardrobe and a few cool garage rock bands like The Woggles. Everything else is pretty bad, boring and unwatchable. We don't get to see any on screen murder which always knocks points off of any monster movie. We don't get any nudity which is also a shame.
We do get some scattered body parts and severed limbs with a slight touch of the red stuff. We also have our fair share of bikini clad bimbos doing their best Go-Go dance routines on the beach. We have a couple of lines that may get a chuckle out of one or two of you and a pretty funny song about syphilis. Other then that Stomp! Shout! Scream is a complete waste of time.
For a much better homage flick check out the blaxploitation throwback Black Dynamite. That one is great from beginning to end. It stays true to the genre and never lets you down. Stay away from this Skunk-Ape... It stinks!
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