Demons

Demons (1985)
Director: Lamberto Bava
Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Two girls are given free tickets to a special screening in an isolated movie theater. The film, a violent horror movie, exerts a malevolent influence over the theater patrons, who are transformed--one by bloody one--into a horde of crazed demons."

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Corpse Mania

Corpse Mania (1981)
Director: Kuei Chih-Hung
Starring: Tanny Tien Ni, Wang Jung, Tsao Ta-Hua
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"A maniac is on the loose, and he's working his way through the shapely employees at an upscale brothel. The stern madam is none too pleased, and soon the crafty Inspector Chang sets traps to uncover this devious defiler of female corpses. A recently-released asylum inmate accused of a similar crime looks like the number one suspect, but there's much more to this twisted tale of macabre desires than meets the eye."

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Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable

Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Reisen Lee, Yayoi Watanabe
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Meiko Kaji returns as Nami, the female prisoner Scorpion, in the third and most outrageous entry of the classic Japanese exploitation series. Having escaped from prison, Nami is on the run, slicing and dicing anyone who stands in her way. With the help of a prostitute, Nami makes attempts at a normal life. But when Nami murders a pimp, she finds herself kidnapped and tortured by the vengeful leader of the prostitution ring. And then, all hell breaks loose."

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Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraishi
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 is the second in a series of films about Matsu (known to her fellow inmates as "Scorpion"), a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend."

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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Yayoi Watanabe, Rie Yokoyama
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Scorpion is a woman who was set up and wrongfully imprisoned. Hell-bent on getting revenge, she must survive the treachery of imprisonment and the wickedness of an evil warden before she can complete her vengeance outside of the prison walls."

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Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (1980)
Director: Joe D'Amato
Starring: George Eastman, Tisa Farrow
Personal Rating: 3/5

"A group of tourists take a boat ride to a deserted island. Once there, they discover that most of the residents have disappeared and soon find themselves being stalked by a malevolent presence. Nothing could prepare them for what they eventually find."

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Don't Torture A Duckling

Don't Torture A Duckling (1972)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet
Personal Rating: 3/5

"Several young boys are murdered in a remote village rife with sex and superstition, and the townspeople go mad with rage and violence. But when a hard nosed reporter and promiscuous young woman search for the true killer, they discover a fiend and motive even more shocking than the crimes themselves."

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Legend of the Eight Samurai

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Etsuko Shihomi, Sonny Chiba
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu (Hiroko Yakushimaru). In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystals, led by Dosetsu to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede."

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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Director: Atsushi Mihori
Starring: Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Reiko Ike stars as Maki, the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Maki is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Maki reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Maki works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance."

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The Cat O'Nine Tails

The Cat O' Nine Tails (1971)
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Karl Malden, James Franciscus
Personal Rating: 2/5

"When a simple robbery at a research institute leads to a series of brutal murders, a blind puzzle maker (Karl Malden) and a tenacious reporter (James Franciscus) begin their own investigation of the crimes. With nine different clues to follow, they uncover a shocking web of twisted genetics and dark sexual secrets that will finally lead them to a shattering climax of violence and suspense. "

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The Young Avenger

The Young Avenger (1972)
Director: Yueh Feng
Starring: Shih Szu
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordsman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival."

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Bewitched

Bewitched (1981)
Director: Kuei Chih-Hung
Starring: Ai Fei, Huan Chin-Sang
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"In America, it's the title of a beloved supernatural sitcom. But in Hong Kong, it's the name of a stunning horror film from the director who also helmed the equally riveting Hex. It all starts when a noble police detective starts investigating a child killer's claims of an evil spell, then it doesn't let up until the final, bloated, maggot-ridden cadaver falls."

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Lady With A Sword

Lady With A Sword (1971)
Director: Kao Pao-Shu
Starring: Lily Ho
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"In Lady With A Sword, Kao Pao-Shu showed that women could successfully direct a "heroic swordsman" film using a swordswoman bent on revenge. Kao cast Shaw's darling Lily Ho as the embittered swordswoman searching for the man who murdered her sister. The man turns out to be her fiance' but her nihilistic fate stays true to lone swordswoman form."

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