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Hit List (1989)
"If you're not on the level, I'll blow your brains out!"
Loving father/ ex-army hardass Jack Collins (Jan-Michael Vincent) and mob witness Frank DeSalvo (Leo Rossi) hunt down lethal underworld shooter Chris Caleek after he mistakenly kidnapped Collins son. Jan-Michael Vincent, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier and Rip Torn are on electric form in director 'Maniac' Lustig's gritty, action-packed, hugely underrated 80s gangster shoot 'em up 'Hit List'. Grindhouse god Lustig really delivers the grisly goods, the brutal fight scenes, bloody executions are thrillingly intense, and Henriksen's hardcore hitman Caleek is a truly memorable savage! I love a violent L. A. Action thriller, and 'Hit List' is a definite keeper!
Death at Love House (1976)
"Do yourself a favour, get out of Love House, there's nothing but death here!"
Seeking inspiration for a biography, writers (Robert Wagner) and his beautiful wife (Kate Jackson) temporarily move into dead Hollywood icon Lorna Love's opulent mansion, only to discover that the glamorous screen goddess was, in life, a real witch! Engagingly directed by the magnificently monikered E. W. Swackhammer, this gripping, eerie, greatly atmospheric 70s TV thriller has a truly fabulous cast. A splendidly snug fit for their roles, Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sydney and Marianna Hill ably dramatising writer, Jim Barnett's marvellously macabre teleplay. This captivating ABC movie of the week classic additionally features colourful cameos by Hollywood veterans John Carradine, Joan Blondell, and Dorothy Lamour. Darkly fulminating passions, sinister Black magic, and murderous jealousy abounds evilly in this satisfyingly bite-sized example of glitzy Gothic Melodrama.
Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
Telly box hero, Dan Curtis knocks this classy creepy crawly 70s creature feature gem out of the park!
Macabre maestro Dan Curtis's sinisterly spun 70s TV shocker finds Private Eye Mark Higbie (Tony Franciosa) investigating the increasingly fantastic links between a series of murders and two beautiful, apparently cursed siblings (Donna Mills, Patty Duke Astin). These bizarre deaths are grimly suggestive of some ill-fated arachnid malediction, as all the mutilated male victims have their pale, exsanguinated bodies eerily encased in spider's silk!!!!
Once again, telly box hero, Dan Curtis knocks this classy creepy crawly 70s creature feature gem out of the park! The altogether brilliant cast and a grisly web of intrigue are sure to keep avid aficionados of vintage horror tantalised until the spider-tinglingly strange climax! An extraordinarily gifted actress, I'd happily watch Patty Duke eat the livid scab off a Leper's gangrenous toe, and she certainly doesn't disappoint, delivering yet another consummate performance. Smarmy Franciosa is more credible than usual, lively comedic element Roz Kelly is quirkily delightful, and the bluff, Vic Morrow always plays exactly the same inflexible hard ass, and I love him dearly for it!
Shapeshifter (1999)
"I saw things too, smoke that turned into shapes!!!!"
After a dramatic kidnapping, precocious teen, Alex Brown's (Paul Nolan) singular shapeshifting ability is startlingly revealed to him by charismatic, 360 yr old Romanian gypsy Janos (Teodor Danetti). This unprecedented physical talent for metamorphosis proves happily fortuitous, since Alex would have enormous trouble rescuing his missing spy parents without it! This bold, madly incongruous admixture of Spy Kids & Manimal, while aggressively ludicrous, is certainly not without some bizarro appeal to the more forgiving psychotronic B-Movie fans! If you can fully accept Shapeshifter's playful lack of credibility, one might then be able to more fully appreciate this gallopingly goofy spy/shapeshifting fantasy! Shot in picturesque Bucharest, the film is often visually appealing, diffusing the clunky dynamics of its rather tiresome Cold War plot. This kooky caper is remarkably well acted, and the gifted actors play it relatively straight, which ultimately works greatly to Shapeshifter's advantage. This fabulously freaky, far-flung Full Moon fantasy proved to be more righteous than I thought it would be, and the Pantomime-nasty Cyberwitch (Catherine Blythe) needs her very own Full Moon franchise!
Jing wu men xu ji (1977)
"Whatever happens, you never give in to your enemy!" (Chen Shen).
Righteous hero Chen Shen (Bruce Li) manfully defends the beleaguered Ching Wu school against evil invader Miyamoto (Lo Lieh) and his vicious cabal of Japanese usurpers in furious Grindhouse Fu gem Fist of Fury Part 2. Once again awed by his quicksilver Kung Fu prowess, I humbly prostrate myself before master fightsmith, Bruce Li's magisterial martial artistry. Not readily can I recall seeing such a supremely agile screen pugilist, displaying his breathtaking command of swiftly articulated, uncommonly steely sinews! One might foolhardily send a lumbering flock of bovine Seagals to thwart him, but Bruce Li would nimbly dispatch them all with just one titanic twitch of an iron clawed knuckle-muscle! A hugely entertaining Fu-fest, Fist of Fury Part II is the kind of exhilarating fight flick you could justifiably hang in the louvre so that future generations of Fu fanatics might marvel at its sublime chop socky splendour. In the dazzling climax we see Bruce Li's depth charge deltoids, fire dragon fists, crackerjack kicks and piledriver punches deliver justice upon the cruel killer Miyamoto.
Nightwish (1989)
'Bill was alive, but I had to split his head open!!!!'
A shady professor of parapsychology (Jack Starrett) and his twitchy students disturbingly discover that the notorious property they are investigating is haunted by something far more sinister than a restless spirit! This blissfully bizarro 80s Sci-horror romp is quite a trip, and features a memorably charismatic performance from the muscular man biscuit Brian Thompson. Are the collegiate researcher's increasingly distressing experiences merely vivid hallucinations, the sinister subterfuges of a malevolent supernatural entity, or gloopy proof positive of grotesquely cannibalistic, human cloning space aliens? All will most certainly not be revealed at the refreshingly oblique conclusion of Bruce R. Cook's surreal, playfully eccentric Sci-splatter extravaganza. There's a fabulously tweaked Altered States, Videodrome meets Chariots of The Gods quality bubbling throughout which gives Nightwish a tangy WTF edge over many of today's more prosaic, dully recycled horror films.
Cold Steel (1987)
'I feel bigger with a trigger!'
Maverick Cop Johnny Modine's (Brad Davis) beloved father is brutally killed by a vicious gang of thugs headed by glacial sicko Iceman (Jonathan Banks), and Johnny vows to even the score, badge or no badge!!! A superb little 80s crime flick, Cold Steel remains a spunky, sharply honed revenge thriller, that is ably served by an exceptionally fine cast of gifted actors. Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks, Eddie Egan and Adam Ant are all on credible form in director Dorothy Ann Puzo's rumbustious action thriller. Granted, the hackneyed plot isn't going to win any plaudits for originality, but with a rocking score, skuzzoid L. A. locations, a sympathetic hero, a dastardly villain, plus a slam bang climax, I 'ain't got no complaints!
Burned at the Stake (1982)
'Thou art a witch, Dorcus Goode!!!!'
During the gruesome witch trials of 1692 Salem, sinister Reverend Parris (John Peters)and his malign cohort Anne Putnam (Susan Swift) falsely condem an innocent child Dorcus Goode (Jennine Babo)to death, and his foul sorcery continues unbowed into 1980s Salem! This bewitching little B-horror abounding atmospherically with kitchy witchyness is ably orchestrated by none other than the legendary monster maker, Bert I. Gordon.
I massively adore period horror hokum about spooky spellcasters and their evilly epoch spanning sorcery, and, happily, The Coming still delivers the devilish goods! Poor old Audrey Rose is haunted anew in Sci-horror maestro Bert I. Gordon's bewitching occult horror gem The Coming. Strong performances, an atmospheric score, and writer/director Gordon's engaging text keeps this couldron of Satanic panic simmering along nastily! High points for me are sultry Melina's (Beverly Ross) snazzy black witchmaster outfit, the 'slimy, seaweed-looking splat-thing', and Susan Swift's terrific acting. I'm more than familiar with The Coming and I'm quite sure it will cast a beguiling spell upon thee, too!!!
Night Feeder (1988)
'That eulogy was straight out of a horror movie!'
A grisly spree of increasingly weird murders confounds the police, and plucky freelance reporter Jean's (Kate Alexander) persistent investigations fatefully attracts the unsavoury attentions of this strange, cerebellum slurping fiend!!! While the performances and technical aspects aren't especially polished, this gaudy admixture of unleavened goofiness, sporadic outbursts of gooey splatter and over earnest amateur dramatics intermittently won me over! A rudimentary Casio-centric score, the narcoleptic acting of Victoria (Cintra), and the gorgeous Faces of Death autopsy are just three of the more luridly appetising aspects of Night Feeder. Personally, I think there should be far more films about ravenously brain sucking mutants! In summation, this quite clearly suffers from its more tepid interludes, yet with less superfluous chat, minus the excruciating band, plus more slimy brain sucking, I could have massively loved Night Feeder! 'How can a human brain cavity be emptied through an eye socket?' Should this macabre question arouse your morbid curiosity, then do watch the momentarily mental S. O. V Body Horror Night Feeder to discover the killer's splatacularly squirrelly modus operandi.
Breach of Trust (1995)
Beautiful Biehn and fiesty Ferrer are a deliciously death-dealing DTV dream team!
After teed off Small-time thief Casey (Michael Biehn) fatefully teams up with ambitious undercover Cop Madeline (Leilani Sarelle Ferrer) their situation rapidly goes south! Our plucky, pistol packing protagonist's bloody siege on corrupt FBI agents and douchey drug lords proves explosive, and the bravura, bullet-shredded melee unleashed thereafter, makes for one demonstratively fine 90s actioner! No one needs a Vidiota like me telling anyone that Michael Biehn movies rock audaciously, coz everyone knows that, but I'm going to repeat it anyway, coz imma Vidiota that don't know any better!!! Well-made, fast, fun, and legitimately furious, 'Breach of Trust' remains some primo Biehn, and I must reiterate that beautiful Biehn and fiesty Ferrer make for a delicious, decisively death-dealing DTV dream team! I also dug the fact that the snappily-written Breach of Trust included a noisome rooftop stand-off, a blonde, Uber-euro henchman, and a satisfyingly ballistic warehouse climax.
Go Ask Alice (1973)
I'd genuinely like to see the word 'FINK' daubed on more school lockers.
A pallid, introspective 15 yr old blonde turns on, tunes out, and sweetly scribbles out her Drug-Fried id in her diary. Drugs are rilly bad, m'kay!! Righteous tunes, and a rail-thin Carradine with stoner god hair. The End. Hey!!!! I just wanted to bask in some vintage voluminous-hair-era Shatner, okay!!! Is 'Go Ask Alice a cult? Mmmmmmm??? Too popular? Does Andy Griffith's stolid presence strongly preclude it from ever being seen as a cult? Why do I care, man? Because I'm manifestly the kind of downward-spiralling vidiot that frequently obsesses about such TV pop culture ephemera! Absolutely NOT AT ALL keen on seeing William Shatner sporting a moustache!!!! YIKES!!!!!!!! The fuzzy-wuzzy last scene with wholesome Joel coming back to Alice at her birthday party got me all gushy lachrymose, but I'm worthless and weak. Why are heck are super-earnest 70s ABC Movie of the Week's so rad???? I'm being rhetorical, 'natch, but if someone legit knows the answer, I'm all ears, dude! And I'd genuinely like to see the word 'FINK' daubed on more school lockers.
Donato and Daughter (1993)
'Where was her god when this happened?'
A Teflon Tough Cop (Charles Bronson) and his estranged, no less resourceful Cop daughter (Dana Delaney) querulously join forces in order to capture a deranged serial killer (Xander Berkeley) in this entertainingly zippy 90s TV thriller. While the pulpy text is all too familiar, the director's pacing is brisk, the performances are engaging, and, quite frankly, I can never tire of watching the dyspeptic Don of vengeance, Charles Bronson kick butt!!!! By no means an exemplar of Bronson's inimitable felon-fragging ouvre, but well worth a boggle if you are a Bronson fan who missed this one. Gifted character actor Xander Berkeley is on smarmily sinister form as the psycho yuppie with a perverse habit of sending nuns to their maker! Another fine synth score from Sylvester Levay keeps this gripping L. A. Set procedural ticking along nicely until its satisfyingly dramatic conclusion.
Dead Man's Cards (2006)
'if ya wanna do someone in, take 'em round the back, no cameras!'
Working the door at Billy's Bar becomes increasingly hectic as burly ex-boxer, turned bouncer Tom (James McMartin) and his gruff bouncer buddy Paul (Paul Barber) take a stand against local drug dealing gangsters. A shouty Samantha Janus and a perma-soused Tom Bell also star in James Marquand's downbeat, bar-room brawling, knuckle dusted slug-fest Dead Man's Cards. Ex pugs, coked-up chavs, well 'ard bouncers, gun happy gangsters, and boozy thugs mix it up propah lively in this gritty Northern crime thriller. The performances and technical aspects of Marquand's explosive indie feature are impressive, with Paul Barber's magnetically menacing turn as the brutal ex-army doorman proving to be a real knockout!
The Blue Man (1985)
'Life is death is life!'
Paul Sharpe (Winston Rekert), a successful, yet frustrated ad director, discovers that his initially exhilarating experiences with Astral projection has disturbingly unleashed an evil aspect to his wondering spirit he is unable to control. The inimitable Karen Black and handsome Winston Rekert deliver credible performances in this relatively obscure, supernaturally kooky 80s Canadian horror gem. While I'm sure astral projection has been appropriated for other films, George Mihalka's greatly atmospheric spookshow is the only one I can recall utilizing it so effectively. The engagingly written Eternal Evil proves to be an imaginative little supernatural shocker, one reliant on quality performances, mystery, intriguing ideas, and eerie atmosphere, rather than explicit gore. I admire Canadian horror, since they quite frequently have an amenable quirk, or eccentricity, that excitingly separates them from most mainstream American horror. The dramatic and supernatural elements of 'Eternal Evil' are well conceived, concluding in a satisfyingly sinister fashion. As one would readily imagine, the always exquisite, Karen Black brightly illuminates every scene as the sexy, spooky siren Janus.
Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
'It all started with a series of increasingly violent dreams!'
'Beyond Dreams Door' (1989) - Jay Woelfel.
Benjamin Dobbs (Nick Baldasare) is a diligent A student whose life becomes a living hell as his extracurricular dream studies disturbingly awaken long dormant terrors within! Beyond Dream's Door is a hallucinatory, hauntingly strange, Lovecraft-inspired low budget horror film from talented independent filmmaker/composer Jay Woelfel. A grossly malign, mind-warping, flesh-chomping Lovecraftian dream virus infects all those unfortunately exposed to Dobbs's unsettling, increasingly demonic nightmare! This frequently inventive feature shows how much can be achieved when modest financial means are boosted by a vivid imagination, and an equally capable cast and crew! With solid, if occasionally overzealous performances, an engrossing text, creative photography, and a generosity of delightfully lurid practical FX, off-beat indie gem 'Beyond Dream's Door' still has much to recommend it to the discerning horror fan! Unfairly neglected upon its initial release, and due to its current wider availability, the increased popularity of 'Beyond Dream's Door' is, quite frankly, wholly deserved! Enjoyed today, 'Beyond Dream's Door' stands out from the Jump Scare juvenilia of identikill slashers, wretchedly recycled remakes and soulless, excruciatingly dull Exorcist facsimiles.
The Tomorrow Man (1996)
'This all feels like some Oliver Stone movie to me!!!'
A model handsome Android (Julian Sands) is warped back to 1990s earth, programmed to prevent an impending cataclysm in this compelling 90s DTV SCI-thriller! 'The Tomorrow Man' has a cosy TV Movie charm that I found greatly appealing, and the gifted cast's credible performances are a credit to the production's canny casting director. A smart, engaging, surprisingly warm-hearted Sci-fi drama that proves to have deeper content than one might initially imagine. I also found that Giancarlo Esposito and his delightful cybernetic cohort Julian Sands had a lovely screen chemistry, Sand's sympathetic Saviour proving to be altogether humane. The cogent, frequently witty text included some genuinely amusing exchanges, and, I, for one, would have been more than happy to see a sequel.
Curse II: The Bite (1989)
Spectacularly splattery sequels to largely forgotten horror films are rarely as much fun as this one!
Prosperi's inventively gory, inexplicably neglected Body horror hokum finds a photogenic, road-tripping couple ignoring a redneck's explicit warnings, and, grimly forewarned, blithely drive pell-mell into one sinisterly serpentine, splatter-strewn nightmare! Granted, this penurious US/Euro co-production is no undiscovered masterpiece, but the goodly gory stuff herein is frequently pretty choice! Once Jill Schoellen's hunky beau J. Eddie Peck is bitten by a malevolently mutated snake, Screaming Mad George's audaciously special FX give this 80s shocker its much-needed bite. The lack of cogent plot is noisily disguised by a colourful plethora of eccentric characters, another sympathetic performance by Jill Schoelen, and Screaming Mad George's vivid, deliciously disgusting gooey FX remain a reality-boggling treat! Spectacularly splattery sequels to largely forgotten horror films are rarely as much fun as this one!
Terminus (1987)
A dazzling roustabout 80s cyberpunk actioner!!!
Doomily set within a dismal, undisclosed totalitarian future, a fancy schmancy, AI-powered Monster Truck navigates this increasingly hostile terrain, part of a secretive, underground anti-establishment game. The participant's dangerous travails are masterminded by a playful, preternaturally precocious, genetically modified boy genius, Mati. Jürgen Prochnow as a trio of tweaked Tuetons, a Tank Girlish Karen Allen, and grizzled, steel-fisted hero Johnny Hallyday are perfectly cast in this dazzling roustabout cyberpunk actioner!!! This consistently entertaining Franco/ German production benefits hugely from its excellently charismatic actors, a catchy score, beautifully designed sets, futurist vehicles, and the snazzy Sci-future costuming. There's plenty of zest to stylishly neon-hued dystopian actioner 'Terminus', plus there's a despotic Comic Book evil scientist to B-Movie boost the explosive vehicular action!!! Glenn's locomotive Cyberpunk classic is an appealing admixture of Mad Max, Damnation Alley, Knight Rider, attractively garlanded with a uniquely European savour.
American Streetfighter (1992)
'I didn't come here to listen to haiku!'
Successful businessman Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) returns home after 10 years to help his troubled brother Randy (Ian Jacklin) who is dangerously involved in illegal fights. American Streetfighter is another DTV banger from burly Blue-eyed Brit Gary Daniels. A shark in the office, Jake throws down equally hard in the ring, bust's up head's on the streets like a boss, Jake Tanner's an expert all-terrain hard ass! If the gaudy sight of a VHS cover emblazoned with an oily-looking muscle mountain on the cover puts a man-sized twizzle in your pizzle American Streetfighter's for you, dude! While the dialogue is excruciatingly awful at times, and some of the lumpy fight scenes are poorly blocked, I still got a kick out of this entertainingly goofy 90s fight-flick. Notable high points for me are Jake's leonine hair, a sweet Ninja Turtles reference, all Gerald Okamura's scenes, and the beaten Daniels heroic return to fearsome fighting form montage is the don!
Pescador (2011)
A very fine film, with an exquisite performance by Crespo.
This compelling Columbian/Ecuadorean crime drama is given additional bite by being based on a true story. A sizable quantity of cocaine is washed up on the shore and we follow poor fisherman Blanquito(Andrés Crespo) as he gamely tries to woo the glacial beauty (Maria Cecilia Sanchez) and sell the drugs. I enjoyed this well-made, lively Ecuadarean crime drama, the quality performances are wonderfully natural, and the able director shoots 'Pescador' in an engagingly loose verite style. The director's visually engaging choices of exterior locations added a great deal of texture, on a more personal note, I found the rumpled, endearingly sad-faced Crespo's performance to be a hugely sympathetic one.
For Those in Peril (2013)
A beautifully bleak, folk horror-inflected drama.
A sensitive, childlike young man (George Mackay) is the sole survivor of a tragedy at sea. Upon his dazed return, the superstious inhabitants of this remote Scottish fishing village become increasingly hostile towards him, convinced he was responsible for the incident. Cruelly ostracized, his unerring belief that his brother didn't perish at sea compulsively pushes him ever deeper into obsession and one final mad desperate act of salvation. This beautifully bleak, folk horror-inflected drama benefits enormously from the sublime cast's natural, unaffected performances, and gifted writer/director Paul Wright strikingly proves himself a more than capable helmsman. Having an undeniably haunting quality, 'For Those in Peril' is steeped in an oblique mysticism that I strongly connected with, and the wyrd, Lovecraftian climax is quite delicious!
White Tiger (1996)
another knockout hit from this handsome, blue-eyed, hard-hitting Brit!
After his partner, and best friend (Matt Craven) is brutally gunned down by vicious drug lord Victor (Cary Tagawa), initially straight-shooting DEA agent Mike (Gary Daniels) goes rogue seeking revenge, by any means necessary! Richard Martin's exciting Heroic Bloodshed-inflected DTV punch-fighter rewardingly delivers the explosive gun-happy goods! Amiable, good-looking martial artist Gary Daniels is on excitingly agile form in this punchy, fight-packed 90s DTV actioner. I never quite understood why the muscular, fleet-footed Gary Daniels didn't become a much bigger star, as his more than credible CV features some thrillingly action-loaded bangers! A rightfully popular actioner, White Tiger is another knockout hit from this handsome, blue-eyed, hard-hitting Brit!
Si wang mo ta (1978)
A bravura Brucesplotation banger!!!!
Thrillingly helmed by noted Brucesploitation avatar, Lee Tso-nam, and starring one of the micro-genres greatest exponents of bellicose Bruce Lee battery, Bruce Le! This furiously fight-packed 70s 'fu fest is still an exciting watch for vintage Martial arts addicts! Bolo Yeung fans will also appreciate the rewarding fact that the great man is featured prominently in the exhilaratingly punch-packed Enter the Game of Death. This bravura Brucesplotation banger has a WW2 espionage plot that doen't overstay its welcome, and the director cannily stuffs his dazzling action-fest with crisply choreographed combat! Bruce joins the Blue Robe undergound resistance organisation and proceeds to take on all comers with his signiture salvo of rapid-fire fists, annhilating Nunchuku flicks, and killer KO kicks, courageously confronting each increasingly deadly Kung Fu master in this towering Game of Death.
Betrayal (1974)
A quality time-eater for vintage thriller fans of all ages!
Betrayal is an above average 70s TV thriller by experienced genre filmmaker Gordon 'Cry of The Banshee' Hessler. The capable cast's performances are all peachy, and Hessler does a credible job mounting all the essential Hitchcockian tensions. Bravo!! Like one of the perpetrator's more corpulent victims, 'Betrayal' is a trifle soft in the belly, but I found it to be consistently entertaining. Veteran composer, Ernest Gold's lush score is a slick complement, and as a wholly gratuitous aside, the deliciously devious Gretchen (Tisha Sterling) is one smoking hot, lean cuisine tamale! This classy 1974 ABC movie-of-the-week gem remains a quality time-eater for vintage thriller fans of all ages! As a final thought, Tisha Sterling & Amanda Blake have great chemistry, generating far more sympathy for their predicament than one might expect.
Les caïds (1972)
Juliet Berto's sex appeal is a veritable force of nature!
Director Robert Enrico's gripping, twist-laden French 70s crime drama remains a thrillingly vivid exemplar of Gallic crime noir. Much like a refined vintage cognac, a great number of these enigmatic 70s French crime thrillers improve with age! This hard-boiled yarn successfully maintains a palpable tension all the way until its pulse-quickening climax. Including the compelling performances, and Roubaix's idiosyncratic score, I thought the shadow-steeped photography was excellent, and the talented director did a terrific job with the nervy heist itself. I admire doomy, existential crime thrillers, wherein the onus is on substance, rather than style, and grit, rather than quick to tarnish veneer. Avid petrol heads might care to note that legendary automotive daredevil Rémy Julienne provides the expert vehicular thrill-spillage. François de Roubaix's memorable themes complement the page-turning plot, earthy performances, and zesty action, with sublime elfin beauty Juliet Berto's sex appeal being a veritable force of nature! Robert Enrico's electric 'Les caïds' is a muscular, downbeat, briskly told, outstandingly well-made 70s policier that readily rewards repeated viewing.