Samourais (product link) Action/Adventure / Martial Arts Some decent choreography here, but it's not worth sitting through the horrid story and bad acting. Oh, and some of the worst looking videogame/CGI ever. Skip it.
The Sword And The Sorcerer (product link) Fantasy / Science Fiction This is the same as all the other empty fantasy junk that came out in the wake of "Conan The Barbarian". I like fantasy movies, but this is just poor.
The hero is lame and ends up needing saving himself more than once, and the triple bladed sword is beyond ridiculous.
Red Shadow [Japanese SE 2-Disc Set] (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure This movie was awesome for about 20 minutes, then it turned into a painful endurance test. After a bit of cool ninja action, we are forced to hear endless moaning and moralizing from ninjas who don't want to kill. WTF? Just kill stuff and shut up, you're freaking ninjas! The comedy falls completely flat. A big disappointment, can't believe I finished the whole thing.
Gozu (product link) Crime / Drama One of the very few Takashi Miike films I've seen that didn't "click" with me. Maybe I've just overdosed on Miike recently, but this one really seems like more of the same, but not as good. *shrugs*
Labyrinth Of Death (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure I picked this up [cheap]. It's certainly not what it appears from the packaging, but a silly kung fu vampire romp with kids was okay, too. Just be aware what you're getting.
Mountain Of The Cannibal God / Cannibal Man [DOUBLE FEATURE] (product link) Horror / Thriller "Mountain of the Cannibal God" is a pretty good, if not terribly original, jungle/cannibal film. A handful of choice gore shots, Ursula Andress fully nude, and some surprisingly good acting from a clearly "slumming it" Stacy Keach.
"Cannibal Man" is a pretty slow moving Spanish film about a butcher who accidentally murders a taxi driver, and then has to keep on killing to keep it under wraps. Not bad, but the pace is sluggish and the title is kinda misleading.
Bloodsucking Freaks (product link) Horror / Comedy Pure camp and schlock. Sardu runs an S&M show where he kills people and convinces the audience it's fake. Basically it's an excuse to torture and kill a naked woman every few minutes and have Sardu (or his evil dwarf assistant Ralphus) make some witty joke about it. Some funny one-liners, but the blood all looks like orange paint, and the sets are practically non existent. Two words of warning for more sensitive viewers: penis sandwich. Enjoy!
Street Trash (product link) Horror / Comedy A pretty funny flick about bums who drink a funky liquor that makes them melt into multi-colored piles of goo. The gore is novel, but the characters are universally sleazy and one-note. Also features genital mutilation and necrophilia. "Trashy" is probably the best word to describe it, but hey, that's right up some peoples' alley.
Kiss Of The Dragon (product link) Action/Adventure / Martial Arts A pretty average movie with a very, very lame ending. It pretty much lacks a "final fight", a big no-no for kung fu movies. For Jet Li completists only.
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition And Torture (product link) Action/Adventure / Crime This sequel to "Sex and Fury" features less choreographed action, and a pretty weak story, but it attempts to compensate by cranking up the nudity and sleaze. It almost works, but in the end, the original is a vastly superior film.
Friday Foster (product link) Crime / Action/Adventure Kinda' typical Pam Grier vehicle, but she tries to mix it up here by playing a spunky photographer instead of just a bad-ass mama. It only sorta' works, but this is still worth a look for fans of Grier or blaxploitation in general.
Samurai Fiction (product link) Comedy An okay samurai flick, obviously intended as a kind of stylized 60's jidai geki with modern touches. Obsessed with trying to be "cool", the film's constant self-awareness is somewhat annoying. Everyone seems to spend so much time standing around going "look at me, I'm in a samurai movie, I'm cool" that not enough good stuff actually happens. *shrugs*
Flesh Eater (product link) Horror / Thriller Bill Hinzman, the original graveyard ghoul in the classic "Night of the Living Dead", wrote, directed and starred in this low budget zombie splatter fest. Not much in the way of story, just one long chase scene as a group of kids camping in the woods are terrorized by a growing number of shambling corpses. The zombies eventually reach a small town and then the massacre really begins.
Micro-budget flick with awful acting, but some quality gore. Looks like they spent a significant portion of their funding on fake blood. For gorehounds only.
Four Of The Apocalypse [5-Disc Set] (product link) Western / Horror A bizarre, unconventional spaghetti western featuring Tomas Milian as a charismatic psycho who preys on a travelling group of misfits. Plenty of weirdness and sadistic violence, but also a really uneven pace and pretty bad music. The lyrics to the songs in the movie describe what is happening in the story in painful detail.
Worth a look for fans of the subgenre, or people who are interested to see what kind of western Lucio Fulci would direct.
Nightmare City (product link) Horror / Thriller Running, jumping, knife-wielding zombies attack a town. Huh? Umberto Lenzi is a pretty amateurish director (poor effects, bad music, odd use of stock footage), but it's hard not to get swept up in the obvious enthusiasm of this flick.
Cannibal Ferox [Numbered LE Ultrabit Tin] (product link) Horror / Thriller A decent attempt to rip off (the superior) "Cannibal Holocaust". It has the violence but none of the social commentary or disturbing score.
Burial Ground: The Nights Of Terror [Uncut] [Italian Shock] (product link) Horror / Thriller Pretty dopey zombie schlocker which is infamous for having an adult dwarf cast in the role of a child with an Oedipus complex. The people in this flick are officially the dumbest ever in the history of zombie movies. "Let's just let them in and see what they want." Seriously? Some clever kills and gore effects, though.
Battle Royale 2 (product link) Horror / Thriller Not as clever or exciting as the first film, "Battle Royale 2" still features tons of bloody action. Fans of the original movie might be disappointed, but it's still a decent war/action flick.
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