LOVE friggin' GODDESS OF BLOOD freakin' ISLAND!

From the fantastic Something Weird Video YouTube page comes a five minute clip unearthing the once and sort of still lost early 60s US gore film LOVE GODDESS OF BLOOD ISLAND! And it is fookin' wild, man!



For further info, check out this fab article from the amazing Bleeding Skull website!

Movie Review: 11 DAYS 11 NIGHTS 3

aka HOT AFTERNOON
Directed by Joe D'Amato
Italy; 1987



Hot stuff!
Or well, weird stuff, anyway.
There are some pretty fine lookin' mammas, but there is a decided lack of the sensuousness that saturates the best of Joe D'amato's 70s work. But this 'in-name-only' sequel to D'amato's mid-80s international softcore hit is nonetheless a kinky and awesomely silly treat.



A lunkhead reporter goes to New Orleans to do an investigative article on voodoo, taking his girlfriend with him. They play public sex games wherein she flashes here panty-less beaver to strange men, while the lunkhead (His name is Courtney. No, really.) pants and sweats to the unsavory, uncomfortable action. But some of the old magic is gone, and so they hope a stay in the 'Big Easy' will re-ignite the heat that's been missing lately. Courtney interviews some chick who can show them a real live voodoo ritual; she's white, kinda sexy and a little off. At the ritual Laura Gemser dances all wild and voodooish, but has no lines of dialog nor appears in the film any further than this scene. A swarthy Cajun lunkhead catches the eye of Courtney's girl and the sex games take on a added dangerous dimension as he roughly seduces her and quickly steals her away from our lunkhead hero reporter (who by the way, does no work at all during the course of his stay in N.O.), leaving him reeling, strangely turned on and changed forever.



The last third of this oddball softcore thriller takes a strangely fantastique turn as Courtney races to save the girl from the clutches of the now murderous voodoo cult. 11 DAYS 11 NIGHTS 3 is languid and laborious, steamy, supple but also a little bit stupid . It radiates an uncanny, almost nightmarish atmosphere as it goes along, but the ridiculous dialog and dated hairstyles and clothes keep things from getting too arty or serious. The main girl is a hot little number, with sexy wide child bearing hips and a generous hinder. It all adds up to a solid little winner of cheap sex flick.



Find it, check it out. It's good for a giggle at least.



DVD provided by Miltos Kordas and his CINEHOUND FORUM! (See link at right)

LEGENDS OF POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS - The Next Wave in Pinky Violence!*UPDATED!*

Some details have emerged concerning the next batch of titles that originated with the now long-gone Panik House label's Pinky Violence Collection, but which are now being pushed across the finish line by the ever dependable Synapse Films. They are calling the them the LEGENDS OF POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS series and it promises to be a wild time, kids!
The info below was broadcasted from the Outcast Cinema(who are producing the special features for all the Toei films in the set including the upcoming HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN and SNAKE WOMAN'S CURSE) blog:

I'm currently working on the next three titles to come out, a trio of female swordplay films produced by Toei in the late 60s, collectively called the Yoen dokufu-den series. In that first PH announcement, Matt called them the Sexy Deadly Legend films, but I bet that was just Toei's original export title for the films. It's literally a correct translation, but not very elegant and not even all that grammatical in English. As an alternative, we came up with a series title that captures both the Japanese meaning and something a little more understandable in English: Legends of the Poisonous Seductress. Although the films star the same lead actress (the beautiful Junko Miyazono), their stories are totally distinct and unrelated, so a series title that gave the impression that viewers will see a new "legend" in each film was something we wanted to capture.







And here's some news you're reading here first: the trio of Poisonous Seductress films will be coming out on November 13th of this year. Here's a peek at the cover of the first one, Female Demon Ohyaku. It was designed to fit in with Panik House's previous "Pinky Violence" line of DVDs, and, like Malformed Men and Snake Woman, will feature a reversible cover with the original Japanese poster on the reverse side. Extras on these three will be lighter than on the horror films, unfortunately - just trailers, commentaries on two of them from frequent Japanese film commentator Chris D., and some other minor goodies. But the movies speak for themselves - they're all really entertaining, fast-moving swordplay dramas, and the first one in particular is a real discovery. It's the only one of the three that's black-and-white, and mercifully so, since it's filled with a jaw-dropping catalog of cruelty that shocked me when I first watched it, particularly since I expected it to be the least of the trio, coming from a director who's better-known as an assistant to Nobuo Nakagawa than a filmmaker in his own right. Wait until you see the guillotine scene - or rather, scenes!

After the three Legends films, Synapse will take a break from classic Japanese cinema until next spring, when the final (so far!) Toei titles will come out, but it's a pair worth waiting for: Meiko Kaji's debut films for Toei Studios following her departure from the Stray Cat Rock series at Nikkatsu: the Wandering Ginza Butterfly films (Gincho wataridori and Gincho nagaremono). But more on those some other day...

Simply outstanding! Some of the world's greatest genre/exploito/pop cinema came out of Japan's Toei studios during the late 60s through the middle 70s and the more of it that finds its way on to DVD the fucking better!!!

And here, copped from Twitch.net are the full details of what's on discs!:

This November, Synapse Films goes Pinky – Pinky Violence, that is – and proudly unveils the LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS female swordplay series. THE THREE-VOLUME SAGA OF A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG SWORDSWOMAN ON A BLOODY TRAIL OF SAVAGE REVENGE. ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT REVENGE TRILOGIES EVER MADE! THE BLOOD-SOAKED MODEL FOR THE PINKY VIOLENCE EXPLOSION OF THE 1970s!

Connected only by their theme of a beautiful young swordswoman who’s wronged, then seeks bloody revenge on her oppressors, the LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS series was produced at Toei Studios in the late 1960s, only a few years before the studio revolutionized the Japanese film industry with their “true-life” yakuza films, girl-gang sagas and modern-day violent thrillers. Set during the samurai days, when Japan was isolated from the rest of the world, the POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS series stars the beautiful Junko Miyazono, first as Ohyaku, then as Okatsu, women who endured humiliation and injustice for as long as they could…until they had to strike back with violence!

Each episode forms its own individual story, and will only be available for sale separately.

EPISODE 1: FEMALE DEMON OHYAKU

A quiet actress named Ohyaku is wrongly sent to prison, then pushed by her tormentors to the point of no return. With a demon tattoo splayed across her back and a sword in her hand, she embarks on a crusade of vengeance against all those who have wronged her, laying waste to man and woman alike in her quest for bloody retribution. A gruesome Pinky Violence classic, the film’s merciless parade of action, beheadings, tattooing and torture proved highly influential on later series of sexy action films from Toei Studios in the 1970s.

EPISODE 2: QUICK-DRAW OKATSU

The daughter of a swordplay instructor takes on a power-hungry magistrate in the second entry of the series, joined this time by Rui, a wild young swordswoman (Reiko Oshida). The two sexy avengers embark on a blood-soaked quest for revenge after Okatsu is raped and her father slaughtered by one of his assistants. From fencing schools to small-town brothels to the imperial city of Edo, Okatsu and Rui slash their way through dozens of evil men in order to settle the score with those who wronged them, in this swordplay classic which features some of the best fight scenes of the series.

EPISODE 3: OKATSU THE FUGITIVE

In the final episode of the series, the legendary beautiful swordswoman Okatsu is on the hunt for Judayu, a corrupt merchant responsible for the death of her parents. Betrayed by her fiancé, she finds herself aided in her quest by a handsome stranger (longtime yakuza movie star Tatsuo Umemiya) – who happens to be as handy with a sword as she is! What is the reason for his kindness, and will Okatsu be able to prevail against her nemesis, now a powerful businessman with scores of allies in high places? Whatever the end may be, the restless spirits of her murdered parents drive Okatsu along her crimson-colored road of vengeance.

Episode 1 directed by Yoshihiro Ishikawa (GHOST CAT OF OTAMA POND).
Episodes 2 & 3 directed by legendary filmmaker Nobuo Nakagawa (SNAKE WOMAN’S CURSE, JIGOKU).

The series features an all-star cast of famous faces from the best of Japanese genre cinema, including lead actress Junko Miyazono (ELEVEN SAMURAI, SAMURAI WOLF 2), two-time series co-star Tomisaburo Wakayama (LONE WOLF & CUB, BLACK RAIN), Tatsuo Umemiya (GRAVEYARD OF HONOR,
WANDERING GINZA BUTTERFLY), Kunio Murai (SNAKE WOMAN’S CURSE), Ko Nishimura (SNAKE WOMAN’S CURSE, HANZO THE RAZOR), Reiko Oshida (DELINQUENT GIRL BOSS), Yukie Kagawa (HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN, FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION – JAILHOUSE 41), and Yoichi Numata (JIGOKU).

Synapse Films’ LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS DVD Series Include the Following Special Features:

• New, fully restored anamorphic widescreen transfers mastered in high-definition from Toei’s original vault elements
• Japanese language audio with newly-translated, removable English subtitles
• Audio commentary on FEMALE DEMON OHYAKU and QUICK-DRAW OKATSU by Japanese film expert Chris D.
• Original Japanese theatrical trailers
• Poster galleries
• Liner notes and essays on the female swordplay genre
• Reversible covers with original Japanese poster artwork
• MORE!

Thanks to Arif Khan and Amazon.com for the cover art to Vol. 2 and Vol. 3, and Twitch.net for the further info!

Severin wants to sex you up!!*UPDATED!*

Severin Films have laid down their awesome schedule for the remainder of 2007, and God-damn if it ain't a scorcher!
You already know about MALABIMBA and SATAN'S BABY DOLL right? (If not scroll down a couple of weeks to check out the full story). Two sexy satanic shockers unleashed on September 25th. These are must buys, but it's only the tip of of the berg!
Dig this crazy news bulletin issued straight out of the gut of the Severin website a couple of days ago:

At last! Lucio Fulci's masterpiece The Psychic (aka Sette note in nero / Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes) will hit DVD this fall. Along with a 16x9 transfer of the uncut version of this long out-of-print film, the DVD will include a never-before-published interview with Fulci as well as interviews with cast and crew. This seminal release will street on October 30th along with the official DVD premiere of the uncut version of Fulci's acclaimed sex comedy The Eroticist (which will also contain a Fulci interview and cast/crew featurette).


Covers unt Specs!(from the Fangoria website):



Special Features for THE PSYCHIC:

• Fulci Talks—The Movies, a never-before-released audio interview with the director accompanied by images from his films
• Voices from the Black, containing new interviews with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti, costume designer Massimo Lentini and editor Bruno Micheli

Special Features for THE EROTICIST:

• Fulci Talks - The Man, a continuation of the director’s audio interview in which he discusses politics, religion and other directors
• A History of Censorship, containing new interviews with actor Lando Buzzanca, legendary makeup artist Giannetto De Rossi and cinematographer Sergio D'Offizi

Both DVDs will also include the theatrical trailers.


A-HA! More Fulci cinemadness! Just what the world needs now, I'd wager! Fulci is our fave Italian director and more of his 60s and 70s films on DVD is just what we wanted for Christmas (and it's arriving on Halloween!) But never ones to rest on their hard-earned laurels, Severin have also dished some info on the Vol. 2 of the BLACK EMANUELLE'S BOX series!
From the excellenct 10K Bullets website:


BLACK EMANUELLE, WHITE EMANUELLE

Director: Brunello Rondi
Stars: Laura Gemser, Annie Belle [Annie Brilland], Al Cliver [Pier Luigi Conti], Gabriele Tinti.

BLACK EMANUELLE 2

Director: Bitto Albertini
Stars: Shulamith Lasri [Sharon Lesley], Don Powell, Percy Hogan, Angelo Infanti

EMANUELLE AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE

Director: Aristide Massaccesi (as Joe D’Amato)
Stars: Laura Gemser, Ely Galleani, Gabriele Tinti, Venantino Venantini.

Bonus CD: An all-new compilation of remastered Nico Fidenco music from Emanuelle in America, Emanuelle & the Last Cannibals and Emanuelle & the White Slave Trade.

All three films will be presented in their original aspect ratios and they are all anamorphic enhanced. Extras consist of revealing interviews and all three films are uncut. This release marks the first time all three of these films have been released in the U.S. on DVD. All three films will come with two audio options English and Italian and English subtitles have been included. This titles is scheduled for release on November 13th, 2007 at the suggested retail price of $69.95, this collection like volume one is limited to only 4,000 copies.

Good Goddess, you could hardly makes us happier than with this rapturous news! Huzzah! Viva La Severin!

Movie Review: RANI MERA NAAM

Directed by K. S. R. Doss
India; 1972

Tough, revenge-seeking chicks never seem to catch a break in South Asian and Muslim cinema. In most of the ones I've seen, our heroine kicks ass, takes names and gets screwed. Err, metaphorically that is. RANI MERA NAAM is no different. But along the way, before our tragic finale, there's a raucous good time to be had. It starts out with a motley crew of grotesque thugs who look like they just stepped out of the 16th century bursting onto a nice upper middle class rural family, killing, raping and thieving their way through the shocked household. The only survivor of this murderous rampage is the youngest child, a little girl, who witnesses the atrocities whilst hiding just out of site. She grows up, trains in bad-assery with a guru-lookin' dude and when she's ready, heads out with a car and a horse (?), a gun and an aim towards vengeance on the scum-fucks what did her wrong. Her course of revenge gets her embroiled in all sorts of adventures wherein she finds herself aiding the helpless and fighting off corrupt politicians and crooked business men, all of whom of course end up being those who once upon a time destroyed her family. Her wrath in turn then destroys them and so sets the countryside free from their oppression. She, however, is not so lucky...



If, from the description above, it seems as though this film is a dour, serious revenge drama, then forgive me, for I've given the wrong impression. RANI MERA NAAM is a colorful, cartoonish blast of old fashioned movie fun, with action, comedy, eccentric characters, action, pretty girls, weird camera angles, giddy song and dance numbers and yet still more action. It's wacky, delirious nonsense with only the barest minimum of social “message” tacked on at the end. But then again, my copy had no subtitles so I'm not sure that I caught all the subtleties of the narrative so caveat emptor, my dear readers.



Mostly the film seems greatly inspired by 60s European popular cinema particularly Spy films, superhero flicks and most importantly Spaghetti Westerns. The third act of the film in fact is at its core a western with Our Heroine riding around on her Faithful Horse through the dusty countryside doing gallant battle with cowboy outfitted baddies. There's even a scene where she races after a speeding train, jumps aboard and holds up the engineers (I'm not really sure what was going on there actually) while a distinctly Morricone-esque scores blares away in the background. The movie is rich with silly cinematic ambiance and it never seems to take itself too seriously. The fights seem to be the main reason for the existence of the movie, and they are nothing short of spectacular. The camera seems to hurl itself around furiously as Our Heroine grapples with a series of villainous buffoons in the main action set pieces of the film. They are extraordinary examples of crazed and enthusiastic cinema at its most weird and fun. Only during a few talky bits does the momentum let up but those scenes actually pass rather quickly before the dutch angles, the blue and red tinted cartoony lighting, the ridiculous costumes and the catchy songs get up and running again, tossing your senses around willy-nilly. I was entertained throughout and felt the deep sense of movie-love overcome me that only the most deranged and bewildering low-budget cinema can provide.



But all good things must come to an end. And for Our Heroine the end is rather sad. After her triumphant defeat of the Chief Evildoer she must face the music for her uppity vigilante activity. She is arrested and shackled, to be put away and forgotten. While we in the west can only see her actions as nothing but heroic, in traditional eastern societies, women must know their place. And while all can feel sympathy for her plight and admire her accomplishments in doling out justice, the traditional viewpoint can not endure such a reversal of the male-female dynamic. It's sad, and we might feel righteous in our disgust at such an attitude, but at the very least it makes for great drama. And in the end, for much of Asian Pop Cinema, a very important part of the message of even the innocuous of films is that the balance of society is restored. But for me the most important thing is the wild details, the crazed cinematic qualities which tickle the eyes and sizzles the soul. RANI MERA NAAM has got all that and some to spare.



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Enter the World of ... LEPTIRICA!

This is a far-out looking 70s Yugoslavian Vampire epic which has shot to the top of my "must-see" list. Dig the crazy clip, brothers and sisters!:



Since we haven't seen it yet (though hopefully we'll have a copy on its way soon)we've decided to post up THE CINEHOUND's review from THE CINEHOUND FORUM here in order to pique your interest further. If you don't know, CINEHOUND is Miltos Kordas a longtime movie collector from Greece who is one of the world's foremost excavators in the field of obscure international exploito cinema. I listen to what he says and you should too. Here's his review, posted with his full permission:

LEPTIRICA
Yugoslavian vampire horror film
Directed by Djordje Kadijevic in 1973
Cast: Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic , Slobodan Perovic, Vasja Stankovic

This is a Yugoslavian female vampire horror film of the early 70s shot in the Serbian countryside and based on a novel. The film starts in a mill. The old miller listens strange bird voices and while he's sleeping the millstone suddenly stops working and a strange creature with black hands, long nails, angry eyes and long teeth bites his neck and drinks his blood. You don't manage to see the whole creature but you understand it's a human, not animal...

After the shocking start the film turns to a talky romance between a young miller and a shepherd's daughter with an angelic face and long blonde hair. Also we watch the comic arguements between his friends from the village. They're always drunk and a funny priest is between them. The young guy talks to his lover's father but he doesn't want to hear a word about their marriage.

Later the vampiric creature attacks to the young miller in his mill. The same elements again, strange voices from the birds and the millstone stops. The creature attacks. Another scary scene but now ends a bit funny as our hero falls into flour and saves himself.

The company goes to an ugly old witch for her advise. She shows them the place where the vampire has been buried and they nail down a huge stake through the closed coffin (they affraid to open it). A butterfly comes out of the bloody coffin (I'm not sure but maybe "Leptirica" means "butterfly" in Serbian?)

The young miller -with a little help by his friends - takes away his lover from her house. They go to the village and prepare their marriage. The night before the marriage he sneaks into her room to make love with her while she's asleep. But below her breast he discovers...a huge bloody hole !!

Yes, she's actually the vampire. She opens her eyes and suddenly transforms to a disgusting bloodthirsty creature. She climbs over his neck from behind while he's running like hell into the woods. Great slow motion here. This is the most powerful scene of the movie and I can tell you that this female vampire is the most creepy and frightful one in the film history !!

She leads him back to her grave. There he manage to get the stake out of the coffin and nail her again.
In the morning his body lies fainted on the ground with a butterfly on his hair...
Incredible end !!

Highly recommended by Cinehound!

We will post our own review sometime after it reaches our grubby, greedy, grasping paws!

Check out further info on this oddity here!

The Skinny on MYSTICS IN BALI!!!

From the Mondo Macabro Myspace blog and the Fangoria website:



It's the film that launched Mondo Macabro in the U.K. and is our most requested title in the U.S. The one you thought you'd never see is now available in a brand new, pristine transfer, just in time for Halloween! From the director of DANGEROUS SEDUCTRESS, it's one of the damnedest things you've ever seen!

This is the film that introduced a new kind of monster to the world's cinema screens. A sensation on its initial release in Asia, MYSTICS IN BALI was deemed too bizarre and shocking to be screened in the west. Until now… This is the first time the film has been released in the U.S. and is completely uncut and digitally remastered from the rare original negative.

The film tells the story of a young American woman who goes to Asia in search of the secrets of ancient magic. One night in the forest, she encounters a female member of the terrifying cult of Leyak. She agrees to become the Leyak's disciple and begins to indulge in many strange and savage rites. But the Leyak witch has secret plans for her young acolyte. Plans that culminate in one of the most bizarre and shocking scenes in all horror cinema!

Mondo Macabro's DVD for MYSTICS IN BALI includes the following features:

*Brand new (2007) anamorphic transfer

*Original theatrical trailer

*Extensive background information

*Mondo Macabro's ever-popular preview reel

Mystics In Bali is presented in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

Look for Mondo Macabro's DVD for MYSTICS IN BALI in stores on October 2, 2007 at a retail price of $24.98.

In other important MM news, you can pre-order the upcoming (and totally awesome looking) THE BLOOD ROSE from Amazon here!

DVD Review: TURKISH SUPERMAN DOUBLE BILL

SUPERMAN DONUYOR aka TURKISH SUPERMAN
DEMIR YUMRUK: DEVLER GELIYOR aka IRON FIST: THE GIANTS ARE COMING!
Directed by Kunt Tulgar/ Directed by Tunc Basaran
Starring Tayfun Demir/Starring Huseyin Zan
Turkey; 1979/1973
Available from Onar Films!



I'm giving away this review right at the outset. It's a winner. In a real big way. Every one of Onar's DVDs has been stellar, but this might just be the best one yet. Every second of viewing this disc was pure pulpy joy. The extraordinary cheapness of the cinematic offerings on display boggle the brain, but in a good, maybe even great way. The glorious Turks did this kind of amazing crap better than just about anybody and thank the Old Ones that Onar is around to uncover and release them to the general public. These are two 'Superhero-on-the-cheap' type films that were kind of the bread-and-butter of the Turkish film industry in the late 1960s and early 70s, and like every other one I've ever seen are supremely entertaining. You can barely believe that they even were made they're so cheap and shoddy. You will look on in disbelief at the wondrous and inventive ineptitude on the screen and marvel at the mere existence of such incredibly disarming trash.



The headliner in this set SUPERMAN DONUYOR otherwise known amongst the gray-market elite as TURKISH SUPEMAN. It is ostensibly a re-make of the Richard Donner-Christopher Reeve 1978 SUPERMAN, swiping the soundtrack music and casting 'in-the-ballpark' look-a-likes in the lead roles. But there the similarity ends. While Donner and co. had a lavish budget to work with, auteur Kunt Tulgar had the American Dollar equivalent of about $250 to work his magick, and although magick indeed he did indeed achieve he doesn't come anywhere close to approximating that late 70s US box office champ. In lieu of the galactic epicness of the original DONUYOR takes the tried and true Turkish method of rehashing old serial stories for its plot. After learning of his origin in an astoundingly cheap re-enactment of first 20 minutes or so of Donner's film, Superman (and his huge eyeglass wearing alter-ego) gets involved in a wearying plot involving a scientist and his world-shattering formula which, if in the wrong hands, will of course wreak havoc on the civilized world. BUT - how cares about the plot? It's the details - the wooden acting, the horrible (and I mean HORRIBLE) special effects and the general ramshackle atmosphere that reminds one that the entire film could fall apart at any second. The much noted opening with Xmas ornaments serving as stars and planets in a failed effort to give the impression of the vast eternal expanse of space is indeed a watershed moment in no-budget international exploitation cinema. Also amazing is the how the effect of bullets bouncing off Supes' chest is achieved. Literally, bullets are simply tossed from off camera towards his no-so impressive torso. And how can anyone not love the special ‘flying’ effect accomplished by hanging a Ken doll in a Superman outfit from a wire with some rear-projection of Istanbul behind. Awe-inspiring! One can only stare with jaw agape as such incredible, magical cinematic stupidity. It's all just so fucking wonderful I can hardly stand it. And then there's DEMIR YUMRUCK: DEVLER GELIYOR ...



In a phrase, it's even better. And unlike the other film on the disc it actually has moments of cinematic verve that aren't dependent on 'badfilm' charm, although it certainly has some of that as well. It's more along the lines of the DIABOLIK-KILLING-3 FANTASTIC SUPEMEN school of superhero films than DONUYOR, being more indebted to the 60s spy craze and Italian fumetti than just Silver Age American comics or 30s and 40s serials. It's a bunch of nonsense involving two supervillains and their race to find a dagger which will reveal the location of some uranium mines and some sort of hidden treasure, or something. It's pretty incoherent, but full of asteroid levels of movie fun. The villains are awesome. One is a scar-faced heavy who has a steel glove thingy which shoots stuff out of it. It looks cool, but I never once saw him use it. Incredible! As for the other arch-enemy - well, he's a real doozy. He's called 'Fumanchu' even though he's not, nor even tries to appear as, Asian. He dresses up as an old woman. He uses a wheelchair. He often sports pointy razor tipped gloves and seemingly has some manner of magic powers. And is completely ham-fistedly performed by the actor at hand. It is fucking amazing. One of the most memorable villains from a film industry known for it outlandish bad guys. The heroes can't even hope to compete. But the superhero outfit is pretty nifty. It confusingly pares the superman logo on his chest with a belt baring the batman logo. What the ... ? AND 'our hero' is a complete cad! Our first introduction to him comes just after he's bedded some Anatolian honey who's not his unbearably hot fiancée! His hot-ass wife to be finds him but discovers her own anger is disarmed by him holding her down to smother her with his hunk-love. I wish I had those kinds of charms! The movie tramples the plot along at a breakneck pace and leaves no time or space for plot or character development (thank God!). And it has an pounding garage rock score, even making use of Dave Allen and the Arrows’ crushing “Blue’s Theme” during the action-packed finale. I loved every second. I think you will too, unless you're a pretentious film-crit-shmuck that is.



Video quality is actually OK, given the haphazard film preservation situation in Turkey. DEMER YUMRUK looks pretty damned good, relative to how these things usually look anyway. SUPERMAN is a little rough, but if you've ever checked out any of the bootlegs floating around you will be fairly impressed with the relative sharpness of the screen image. Onar does what it can with these as far as quality goes and again they've done a bang-up job. Extras include a swath of trailers for upcoming titles in their growing pantheon of Turkish wonders, a still gallery for SUPERMAN, a wonderful lobby card gallery for YUMRUK and informative director bios written by Turkish Film Historian Ayman Kole. The best feature by far is a long and illuminating interview with the DEATHLESS DEVIL himself, SUPEMAN director Kunt Tulgar who talks about his career from a childhood appearance in his father's production TARZAN IN ISTANBUL (also on tap for an Onar DVD release) to his mid 80s crime thriller productions that quite simply sound amazing (Hey Onar can you get ahold of any of these?). Tulgar seems a down-to-earth and rather charming chap and it's great to have his impressions recorded here for film history prosperity.



You need this. I don't care who you are, you will be disarmed by this loving presentation of these two creaky 'bad' Z-movie marvels. Onar needs the support of all fans of weird and left of center cinema and I really can't think of any reason why a self-respecting cult film fan shouldn't include this and all of Onar's Turkish Pop Cinema DVDs in his or her collection. You are a wimp and a dullard if you don't order. Yeah, I said it! Consider it a challenge, and prove me wrong ... if you can!

Mondo Macabro Update-O!

One of the mysteries of the universe solved!
Why has Mondo Macabro been so silent this year? They've been busy getting themselves a sweet new distribution deal, that's why!
So long Rykodisc, Hello Caroline!
Soon enough, the Mondo Macabro back catalog will be available again including, one may assume ALUCARDA and the TURKISH POP CINEMA DVD, both of which have been MIA for some months.

And in further news, their release calendar for the rest of 2007 is shaping up thusly:
October 2 will see the R1 debut of the astounding MYSTICS IN BALI in what MM promises to be a "brand new HD remaster" that will blow our little minds! Oh great Mysteries of Isis I can't wait for this!
After that ... SILIP aka DAUGHTERS OF EVE! A Filipino erotic shocker described thusly by Mondo Macabro's Andy Starke: "one of the most extreme movies we at Mondo HQ have ever seen... a bone fide masterpiece of Filipino 'Bold' cinema ... truly out there! Very intense and extreme stuff but a brilliant film! Hopefully will be out end Nov..."


Greek VHS cover art for SILIP, courtesy THE CINEHOUND!

Something Weird on The YouTube!!

Choice clip weirdness from the all-time Video Champs!

THE MAGIC LAND OF MOTHER GOOSE!


THE DEVIL'S HAND!


HONEY BRITCHES!


GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS!


BAT PUSSY!


CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT!


THE DEADLY ORGAN!


CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS!


THE ZODIAC KILLER!


MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN!


WONDER WOMEN!


STING OF DEATH!

Two New Satanic Sex Shockers from Severin!!!

Out September 25th, 2007 A.D.

MALABIMBA THE MALICIOUS WHORE


A Teen Temptress Consumed By The Depraved Lust Of Satan!

Severin Films is proud to unleash one of the most degenerate treasures in EuroSleaze history! Delicious Katell Laennec (in her one and only screen appearance) stars as Bimba, a teenage temptress who plunges her entire family - including her widowed father, wanton aunt, invalid uncle and even a beloved nun - into the depths of sexual depravity. Is she possessed by demonic lust or just going through a really freaky puberty? Evil hungers for the ultimate in unholy pleasure. The Devil demands MALABIMBA!

The gorgeous Mariangela Giordano (SATAN'S BABY DOLL) and voluptuous Patrizia Webley (SALON KITTY) co-star in this sex-crazed shocker from Andrea Bianchi (infamous director of STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER and BURIAL GROUND). Officially released on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world via an exclusive pact with Satan himself!

Colour / 1.85:1 / 16x9 / 88 mins / Not Rated / $29.95 / Reg 0 (NTSC) / DVD 5
English / Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English Subtitles
UPC 891635001254 / Item SEV1119

Director: Andrea Bianchi (as Andrew White)

Starring: Katell Laennec, Patrizia Webley, Enzo Fisichella, Mariangela Giordano .

Aka: Malbimba

Extras:
# Deleted Scenes
# Integral Version - Watch the feature with deleted scenes incorporated back into the movie
# MALABIMBA Uncovered - Interviews with Actress Mariangela Giordano and Cinematographer Franco Villa

SATAN'S BABY DOLL


Severin Films shamelessly presents the EuroSleaze sickie that has it all: Drooling insanity, relentless nudity, the living dead, voluptuous nuns, one very unfortunate chicken and more. In her first and only movie role, Jacqueline DuprŽ stars as a tasty teen who becomes possessed by the kinky spirit of her murdered mother and triggers a family frenzy of sexual corruption. Deep within the dungeon of the depraved, who will surrender to the ultimate acts of perversion? Beware the promise of profane seduction. Behold the unspeakable hungers of SATAN'S BABY DOLL!

Mariangela Giordano (BURIAL GROUND) and notorious porn queen Marina Hedman co-star in this deranged remake of MALABIMBA, now fully restored from the Devil's own vault print to create the most complete version known to exist in the world!

Colour / 1.66:1 / 16x9 / 73 mins / Not Rated / $19.95 / Reg 0 (NTSC) / DVD 5
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 / English Subtitles
UPC 891635001261 / Item SEV1120

Director: Mario Bianchi (as Alan W. Cools)

Starring: Jacqueline Dupré, Mariangela Giordano, Aldo Sambrell, Marina Hedman.

Aka: La bimba di Satana

Extras:
# Exorcism of Baby Doll - Interview with Director Mario Bianchi
# Theatrical Trailer

Two of our most anticipated releases of the year! And those delicious covers! We love it! We will get them! So will you!

Movie Review: DEVIL'S HONEY

aka IL MIELE DEL DIAVOLO
aka DANGEROUS OBSESSION
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Spain/Italy; 1986

DEVIL'S HONEY is a fevered and wet erotic thriller that may just be Director Lucio Fulci's last true masterpiece. I can't think of any films made after this that add up to much at all. After this Fulci's health and budgets dwindled slowly till both were gone by the early 1990s. But this hot and foul number represents his last profound and provocative eyegouging cinematic experience and it is highly recommended to all.

An awful light-jazz sax-superstar has a dysfunctional sadomasochist relationship with his fantastically attractive girl-toy. While disgusted by his antics the girl is nonetheless totally obsessed with this literal windbag. There's a great heft of disturbing sex scenes, as well as disturbing sax scenes. And a disturbing mix of the two. Unfortunately (or actually for the girl, fortunately) the wild young man meets with a silly motorcycle accident and finds his fate in emergency surgery. Unluckily for him the Surgeon's wife has just left him due to his prostitute proclivities. He spaces, loses his Surgeon's Will and effectively kills his soft-jazz/perv patient. Girlfriend crumbles in depressive oblivion and begins a harassment campaign against the sad-sack surgeon, whom she blames (fairly rightly) for her beau's passing to the next world. Meanwhile the surgeon's own mind is splintering as his attempts to reconcile with his ex are thwarted by his impotence and inability to satisfy her lust-starvation. One evening the girlfriend goes for a walk in the surgeon's neighborhood with a gun, and the movie's most fetid psychosexual games begin in earnest...

This is as nihilistic and existential a gaze into the abyss as Fulci ever committed to celluloid. From MASSACRE TIME to NEW YORK RIPPER Fulci was Italian Pop Cinema's premier Dark Star, with his major obsession being death and death's meaning in life. DEVIL'S HONEY is certainly no exception. While some of the Maestro's well-meaning fans my balk at this film's lack of overt horror or supernatural terror, the patient and aware will be blessed with a bleak and menacing soft-core tour-de-force. As the girlfriend holds the guilt-stricken surgeon hostage a bizarre and brutal dynamic begins to take shape. Each finds the reversal of the sadomasochistic relationship to be a revelation, with the girl freed from an unwilling masochist position to take a dominating stature and the surgeon's passive, impotent nature is unburdened by his lack of control. He couldn't please his wife, who yearned to be ravished and ravaged, but he finds ultimate pleasure in being at the mercy of this unhinged but incredibly cute kidnapper. Through the violence and humiliation a connection is made, perverse and unhealthy as it may be. The hovering specter of death unleashes honest emotions and attractions in both captor and captive, shaping that cold dynamic into as close to human warmth and understanding as either have ever experienced. Not bad for a slick and seemingly frothy 80s "erotic thriller".

Not sure if my copy (a VHS under the DANGEROUS OBSESSION re-titling) was uncut but it certainly seemed as though it was with scenes depicting anal sex, homosexuality and hooker humiliation. In any manner, it more than deserves a new DVD upgrade. Sleazy as it is dark, this movie may actually not be the right ticket for all cult film fans, but students of astute and well made Eurotrash will delight in this bleak and existential soft shocker.

BLOOD ROSE clip online!

Here's a (unfortunately censored) five minute clip from the forthcoming THE BLOOD ROSE recently posted on Mondo Macabro's YouTube page. It's coming out on August 28th, even though there are no pre-orders up anywhere that I can find.

Onar Update! TURKISH SUPERMAN is a go!!!!

Onar Films has unleashed a beast! The TURKISH SUPERMAN DOUBLE BILL in on, kids!!

Here's the specs, in case ya missed them:

1)SUPERMEN DONUYOR (TURKISH SUPERMAN):

The most talked-about cult film of all times comes from Turkey! Defying criticism, ignoring “obstacles” and aiming at the heart it will disarm you willy- nilly! The only remaining print found, was far from perfect of course but you should be getting used to it already!

2) DEMIR YUMRUK: DEVLER GELIYOR (IRON FIST: THE GIANTS ARE COMING):

A super- obscure 1973 Turkish superhero giant, with a… Super-Bat-Man so to speak! Also featuring a wheelchaired transvestite super- villain called Fumanchu, Bikini leathal babes, hook-for-hand gangsters plus more! The master was found in very good condition for a Turkish film!

Country: Turkey
Year: 1: 1979, 2: 1973
Director: 1: Kunt Tulgar, 2: Tunc Basaran
Actors: 1: Tayfun Demir, Yildirim Gencer, Gungor Bayrak
2: Huseyin Zan, Altan Gunbay, Kayhan Yildizoglu

FEATURES:

1200 numbered copies

Turkish audio, Dolby Stereo

English & Greek subtitles

Colour (1), B/W (2), 4:3

Interview (Kunt Tulgar)

Photogalleries

Bios, Filmos

Trailers
PLUS, POSTER INSERT!

And in further news, Bill (Onar Master Himself) has given us a taste of things to come ...

1) I have found a new studio for my dvd authoring and remastering work. They will also take care of the subtitles. This means that I can now:
2) ....Release 1 dvd per month! You don't believe it, huh? Neither do I.But it all looks possible what with the new studio and my new dvd release mentality which is:
3) No more double bills!! ONLY SINGLE-MOVIE DVD'S from now on! Why??...Because:
a- More trouble to handle 2 movies and relevant extras and subs etc, meaning more time, meaning if I want to stick to 1 DVD per month I must forget double-bills and adopt SINGLE MOVIE DVD's.
b- One film per dvd means lower costs overall which of course means a SERIOUS DROP ON RETAIL & WHOLESALE PRICES by at least 2 euro, maybe 3, per dvd!!
c-The 2nd movie on each double-bill was actually overshadowed and undergraded by the 1st, "main" attraction. Example, DEMIR YUMRUK DEVLER GELIYOR & OLULER KONUSMAZ KI deserved their own unique dvd's. Same with the "main attractions". So 1 movie on its very own DVD from now on!

4) So, for the moment this is the line-up I have in mind:
Early August: KARANLIK SULAR
Early September: TARZAN ISTANBUL'DA
Early October: CASUS KIRAN (SPY SMASHER)
And then?? Hmm, why don't YOU give me ideas? Perhaps MASKELI SEYTAN? I'm happy to announce that I have secured the FULLY UNCUT VERSION!!! It includes tons of nudity! Even the credits were cut, but now my NEW credits offer some hefty nudity as well!
Or maybe some other title?

Onar does it right. If you don't buy their DVDs then we're not your friend.

The Worldweird DVD News Roundup June 2007!

Here's some info scrapped up from around the internet about some fantastic stuff coming our way in the next few months!

First, more Mondo Macabro news!
According to Fangoria, on October 2 the R1 debut of our fave MM release the one and only MYSTICS IN BALI!
Thank Odin this is finally coming out soon as the first R2 release now regularly fetches triple figures from ebay and other online dealers.
No details on specs or the cover, but hopefully will be forthcoming along with further updates as to what comes next.
Also here's the full-sizeish cover art for their upcoming release THE BLOOD ROSE!



On the Onar Films front, things are, as usual for Onar, troubled, but Bill forges ahead and his two upcoming releases are coming soon. Check their website for recent "production diary" updates and then write Bill a note and thank him for all his hard work. Meanwhile here's the recently unveiled cover for the their upcoming KARANLIK SULAR disc as well as it's trailer. Looks totally fucking awesome if I may say so!





In Blue Underground news, although they are soon going the way of the Giant Three-toed Sloth, they've lined up some great looking Eurotrash DVDs for us to remember them by.
Firstly, here's a new Jess Franco disc, WOMEN BEHIND BARS!



When a brazen diamond heist on a Chinese junk ends in a bloody double-cross, the traitor escapes only to be mysteriously murdered by his mistress. The vicious vixen is locked away in a tropical prison where, to keep the hidden jewels for herself, she'll have to resist the charms of the warden's Sapphic spies; withstand whips, chains, and high-voltage electrodes in his dungeon; and, if she breaks free, she must pass through the gauntlet of greedy gangsters woking on both sides of the law. Are her mind and body strong enough to survive the agonies and ecstasies of life in the big doll house?

Sultan of sleaze Jess Franco (VENUS IN FURS, SUCCUBUS) directs this depraved delicacy destined to delight connoisseurs of crime and perverted punishment. Raven-haired beauty Lina Romay (FEMALE VAMPIRE, MACUMBA SEXUAL) and blonde bombshell Martine Stedil (BARBED WIRE DOLLS) lead an exotic cast of curvaceous criminals in this uncut, uncensored entry in the women-in-prison genre.

Back Behind Bars - Interview with Director Jess Franco
French Trailer

And another Eurosex number, which looks like a Franco, but isn't.
JUSTINE DE SADE!



Director: Claude Pierson (Perverse)
Stars: Alice Arno (Female Vampire), Marco Perrin (Army of Shadows), Chantal Broquet (Golden Temple Amazons)

Innocent orphan girl Therese seeks her fortune in a wicked world where no virtue goes unpunished. While she strives to preserve her precious "virtue," Therese finds every inch of her flawless form systematically sullied as she runs afoul of depraved young nobles whose hounds have a taste for human female flesh; a surgeon with a scalpel in one hand and a whip in the other; men of the cloth who keep their female flock shorn and branded with a red hot iron; and a Count whose concubines must give him their very blood! Will Therese finally learn "how delicious it is to be a whore?"

Director Claude Pierson's adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's catalog of hedonistic horrors stars Marco Perrin (ARMY OF SHADOWS), the lovely Alice Arno (FEMALE VAMPIRE) and her real-life sister Chantal Broquet (GOLDEN TEMPLE AMAZONS). This scandalous spectacle has been widely censored, banned, and virtually unseen in the United States - until now, as JUSTINE DE SADE arrives fully restored and uncut on DVD for the first time ever!

Deleted Scene
Alternate Scene
French Trailer
English Trailer

Also on the slate is Dario Argento's late period masterpiece THE STENDHAL SYNDROME!



(from the Fangoria website):
Starring Asia Argento as a policewoman who experiences hallucinatory responses to works of art as she tracks a sadistic serial killer (KING KONG's Thomas Kretschmann), the movie will be presented uncut (119 minutes) in a 16x9-enhanced 1.66:1 transfer, with 6.1 DTS-ES English and 5.1 Dolby Surround EX and 2.0 Dolby Surround English and Italian audio tracks. The first disc will also include the theatrical trailer, while the second contains the following featurettes:

� Director: Dario Argento
� Inspiration: Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini
� Special Effects: Sergio Stivaletti
� Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi
� Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng

Retail price is $29.95.

If you haven't picked up the recent Naschy deluxe DVDs VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES and NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF, well, then what the hell is wrong with you?
Go get 'em now!!
Next up in their Spanish Horror line - EXORCISM and NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS!



Filmed in Barcelona, with exteriors shot in London, Paul Naschy wrote the Exorcism script before William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist came out, but could find no one interested in producing the film until the Friedkin film became an international hit. In a quaint English village, gruesome crimes are being committed. The townspeople are terrified, and yet nothing has changed on the surface of this English country setting. Or has it? Paul Naschy stars and writes (as Jacinto Molina) in the terrifying story of a beautiful aristocrat (Maria Perschy) who has fallen victim to a bizarre illness while her sister is beginning to think herself possessed. The horrifying crimes have the police baffled--until they stumble upon a satanic cult operating under their very noses. What they uncover is an evil the likes of which had never been depicted on-screen before. For years, fans of this excursion into the supernatural realm have claimed that the film is “too powerful to be seen more than once.”

“Exorcism” Special Features:

o Complete and uncut version of the film

o Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

o Two audio tracks: In Castilian with English subtitles and English dubbed track

o Introduction by star Paul Naschy

o Interview with Paul Naschy

o U.S. Theatrical trailer

o Spanish credit sequence

o Alternate “clothed” versions of the nude scenes used for the original Spanish theatrical release

o Still gallery of photos, posters and other international advertising materials




Amando de Ossorio, the director of the notorious Blind Dead films, strikes again with Night of the Sorcerers. In 1910 Africa, a brutal ceremony takes place in Bumbasa, starting with the whipping, defiling and beheading of a European woman. The ceremony is interrupted by British soldiers and the natives are killed, but the ceremony is completed and a new evil is born – the victim’s head comes to life and she screams, exposing her new vampire fangs. Decades later, a group of explorers arrive near the same location for wildlife study. All is tranquil until nighttime comes and distant drumming draws one of the female members of the group to investigate. Thus begins a nightmare is re-awakened – of zombie natives and vampire women, prowling the moonlit jungle in search of fresh blood. A wild foray into unabashed exploitation that far outdoes anything else in de Ossorio’s body of work, Night of the Sorcerers -- with its over-the-top political incorrectness and brazen sadistic elements -- is a film that still possesses the power to shock contemporary audiences.

Night of the Sorcerers Special Features:

o Complete uncut version

o Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

o Two Audio Tracks: In Castilian with English Subtitles and English Dubbed Track

o Alternate scenes

o U.S. Theatrical Trailer

o Spanish Credit Sequence

o Still Gallery

And finally, Dark Sky has announced a couple of classic indie Ameritrash films given the special edition treatment - Tobe Hooper's EATEN ALIVE and Jack Hill's SPIDER BABY! On September 25th!



Thanks for checking back, sorry not much has been going on lately. Promise more reviews, news and trailers soon.
Excelsior!