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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Nov 6, 2008

Mausoleum

Mausoleum (1983)
Director: Michael Dugan
Starring: Bobbie Bresee, Marjoe Gortner
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"Susan Nomed (Bobbie Bresee) was ten when her mother died. Now thirty, blonde and beautiful, she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another legacy that no one wants to remember, an ancient and evil curse. Possessed by powers that overtake her, Susan’s life becomes a nightmare of lust, terror and murder until even her husband finds himself confronting the face of evil. Only one person can help her cast away the evil, but he will have to face the prince of darkness to free Susan from the grip of Satan."

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Nov 4, 2008

The Black Tavern

The Black Tavern (1972)
Director: Yeh Yung-tsu
Starring: Shih Szu, Kang Hua, Ku Feng
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location - an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem."

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Nov 2, 2008

Last House On The Beach

Last House On The Beach (1978)
Director: Franco Prosperi
Starring: Florinda Bolkan, Ray Lovelock
Personal Rating: 2/5

"Ray Lovelock stars as the leader of a gang of brutal bank robbers who invade an isolated seaside villa, only to discover five teenage schoolgirls, their nun teacher (Florinda Bolkan), and a nightmare of sexual assault and horrific revenge."

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