Dec 31, 2008

Savage Streets

Savage Streets (1984)
Director: Danny Steinmann
Starring: Linda Blair, Robert Dryer, Sal Landi, Linnea Quigley
Personal Rating: 4/5

"After nearby being run down by a gang known as the Scars, Brenda (Linda Blair) and friends trash the leader's car. Gang leader Jake exacts his revenge by getting his cohorts to gang-rape her mute-deaf sister, Heather (Linnea Quigley). Armed with a crossbow and a bad attitude, Linda Blair sets out to avenge her mute-deaf sister while blazing a bloody, Bronson-inspired trail through 1980s Los Angeles."

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Dec 25, 2008

Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out)

Christmas Evil (1980)
Director: Lewis Jackson
Starring: Brandon Maggert
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas. In fact he wants to "be" the authentic Santa Claus, with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the “truth” about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and critics who mock him for his yuletide beliefs… but he wants people to get the presents they deserve, even if that means giving the gift of murder."

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Dec 22, 2008

Basket Case

Basket Case (1982)
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Carrying a mysterious wicker basket around with him, Duane Bradley arrives in Manhattan and checks into a sleazy Times Square hotel. What's in the basket, you ask? Why, Duane's hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial, of course. Originally born attached to Duane's side, the little monster was surgically removed by some quack doctors and rudely left for dead in a plastic garbage bag. But Belial survived, and Duane has hit the Big Apple with his beastly bro to wreak havoc on the surgeons who separated them. Things get complicated, however when Duane gets romantically sidetracked by the sexy, wig-wearing receptionist of one of the doomed doctors, and his jealous telepathic sibling reacts...well, poorly."

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Dec 17, 2008

Brothers Five

Brothers Five (1970)
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Cheng Pei-Pei, Chin Han, Chang I, Yueh Hua, Lo Lieh
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Fist of Fury director Lo Wei keeps the action flowing and the body blows flying in this epic tale of revenge and brotherly love featuring Cheng Pei-Pei as Yen Lai. The same killers who murdered Yen Lai's father have overrun the Teng Lung Manor, and now Lai's only hope for revenge is to reunite her five brothers. But her siblings have all been separated since childhood, and brining them back together promises to be nearly as formidable a task as defeating the nefarious Lung-Chen feng and his gang. As the fight gets underway, however, old bonds are soon strengthened through the mutual hunger for revenge."

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Dec 15, 2008

Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried (1981)
Director: Gary Sherman
Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed, then brutally murdered. But even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal, friendly citizens around town. Now the local sheriff (James Farentino) and an eccentric mortician (Jack Albertson) must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well."

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Dec 10, 2008

Bloody Moon

Bloody Moon (1981)
Director: Jess Franco
Starring: Olivia Pascal, Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff
Personal Rating: 2/5

"Bloody Moon is Jess Franco's entry into the 'stalk-and-slasher' genre. Miguel is a disfigured young man who was sent to a mental home for murdering a girl with a pair of scissors after a party. Five years later he is released. His sister Manuela is in a relationship with a language teacher Alvaro. Even though she loves Alvaro there is something in her relationship with her brother that is holding back her unconditional love for Alvaro. After the death of the siblings' rich wheelchair-bound aunt (who hated Manuela) gruesome murders begin happening at the school where Alvaro teaches."

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Dec 8, 2008

My Young Auntie

My Young Auntie (1981)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Wang Lung Wei
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Set sometime in the early twentieth century, My Young Auntie tells the story of Jing Dai-Nan (Kara Hui), a loyal student who marries her elderly master as a favor to him. Why? Well, for plot purposes, it’s important for Dai-Nan to take control of her master’s assets when he croaks (and he does) and keep them away from the dastardly Yu Wing-Sang (Wang Lung-Wei). Now newly widowed, it’s up to Dai-Nan to rightfully bestow her master’s property upon his most deserving, yet slightly meek nephew, Yu Jing-Chuen (Liu Chia Liang). Thanks to Chinese custom, the fact that she’s the wife of a family elder--hasty as the marriage was--makes her a “senior” in the family hierarchy, a distinction she uses to her full advantage. Naturally, things get a little crazy when Jing-Chuen’s son, Ah Tao, returns home from school. Although she and Ah Tao (who’s rechristened himself “Charlie”) are about the same age, custom dictates that Ah Tao and his father must defer to “their young auntie”. Naturally, plenty of hijinks ensue."

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Dec 3, 2008

The Watcher In The Attic

The Watcher In The Attic (1976)
Director: Noboru Tanaka
Starring: Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi
Personal Rating: 3/5

"The film is set in 1923 in a cheap Tokyo boarding house. A bored tenant, Goda, roams through the attic, observing the weird lives of his fellow lodgers through holes in the ceiling. One day he sees a mysterious woman murder her lover. He decides that at last he has found his soul mate. But to be worthy of her, he too must perform a meaningless act of violence."

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Dec 1, 2008

Night Train Murders

Night Train Murders (1975)
Director: Aldo Lado
Starring: Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"Students Margaret and Lisa have decided to spend their holiday together at Lisa's family home in Italy, but when a bomb threat forces them to change trains en route, they find themselves sharing a carriage with Blacky and Curly, who force them into a nightmare of sexual assault and sadistic violence."

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Nov 26, 2008

Five Shaolin Masters

Five Shaolin Masters (1974)
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: David Chiang, Ti Lung, Alexander Fu Sheng
Personal Rating: 4/5

"After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple and suffering continuous defeats at the hands of Qing kung fu experts, Five Shaolin patriots return to the temple ruins to perfect their kung fu and take revenge for their destroyed temple and dead comrades."

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Nov 24, 2008

I Drink Your Blood

I Drink Your Blood (1970)
Director: David E. Durston
Starring: Bhaskar, Jadine Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson, Riley Mills
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"This seminal gore-fest sees escapees from a devil-worshipping hippy cult looking for kicks in a small rural town. They slip a few tabs of LSD to an elderly local, triggering a fatal "freak-out". The victim's grandson exacts a vicious revenge by selling the hippies meat pies injected with the blood of a rabid dog and before long, the infected kids are leaping at each other's throats in a wild cannibal feeding frenzy."

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Nov 20, 2008

Contamination

Contamination (1980)
Director: Luigi Cozzi
Starring: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau
Personal Rating: 3/5

"A deserted ship arrives in New York City carrying its slaughtered crew and a horrific cargo: Mutant green eggs the size of footballs that pulsate with life until they spray hideous chest-bursting death. But when a government research team begins an investigation, they uncover a grisly conspiracy of murder, space monsters and coffee."

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Nov 18, 2008

Final Exam

Final Exam (1981)
Director: Jimmy Huston
Starring: Cecile Bagdadi, Joel Rice
Personal Rating: 2/5

"At Lanier College, the semester is almost over. Exam week is coming to a close when some upper classmen play a prank by staging a phony terrorist attack. But the next excitement in the school won't be a prank. It's something a lot more final than an exam. Students are falling prey to the knife-wielding maniac hell bent on making sure that school is out forever."

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Nov 15, 2008

The Toolbox Murders

The Toolbox Murders (1977)
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering "immoral" women with the tools of his trade-claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun."

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Nov 13, 2008

The Thunderbolt Fist

The Thunderbolt Fist (1972)
Director: Cheung Yat Woo
Starring: Chuen Yuen, Shih Szu, James Nam
Personal Rating: 4/5

"The time: just after the Chinese Revolution. The place: Northeast China, as Japanese invaders start to infiltrate. The situation: a vicious judo expert sets out to prove that Chinese are the "sick people of Asia" by killing all their best martial artists in corrupt, dangerous tournaments. To save his son, the head of the Ping Pai Boxing Institute sends to the mountain hideout of the master fighter Red Butterfly. There's only one thing which will set things right: the powerful Thunderbolt Fist kung-fu technique"

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Nov 11, 2008

Assault! Jack The Ripper

Assault! Jack The Ripper (1976)
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Starring: Yoko Azusa, Yutaka Hayashi
Personal Rating: 4/5

"A surly waitress and an introverted pastry cook meet at the restaurant where they both work. The waitress persuades the man to give her a ride home. In the torrential rain, they accidentally run over a female hitch hiker. The waitress finds that the sight of blood on the dead girl's body turns her on and she makes violent love to the man. Having discovered that death and bloodshed are their mutual aphrodisiacs, the pair embark on a rampage of murder and mutilation. Soon the violence escalates until it seems that nothing can stop them."

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Nov 9, 2008

Pieces

Pieces (1982)
Director: Juan Piquer Simon
Starring: Christopher George, Ian Sera, Edmund Purdom
Personal Rating: 4/5

"A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old."

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