Wereturkey: "He tampered in God's domain"
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Genremashing. If you're geekish you've seen it. If you're into anime or Japanese video games you've certainly seen it. Steampunk, space westerns, modern magic: you know the sort of thing I'm talking about. There's been some solid examples of genremashing from the USA (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Shadowrun RPG for example) but Japan is the capitol of the anything goes story setting. Rarely do two genres collide with more force and less sense than in December's Peck of The Month: Cyber NinjaIt delivers what's on the label. ( Read more... )
Excellent grindhouse narration.
As I threatened in the last Wereturkey post I'm going to do a trailer package of videos distributed by MTI. Enjoy the cutting edge of kitsch. X-Treme Fighter ( Read more... )
November's Peck of The Month: They BiteI'm always on the lookout for something in the world of bad movies. Something new to me is always appreciated but I'm also always searching for movies which I consider paragons in their respective niche genres. I wouldn't say They bite is the epitome of an exploitation film, but I'll be damned if it's not trying. It's distributed by the still quite active DTV grindhouse factory M.T.I. Home Video. Just looking at the box i found something new. Their catalog is massive and I've only heard of one or two of these flicks in passing. They have a few movies-that-look-a-bit-like-last-year's-b lockbuster-but-aren't and a handful of hard-R blue reels. Most of them don't look good, and I mean that in the best possible way. In fact, I'll soon be doing November's trailer time and I plan to showcase the best of M.T.I. Home Video if at all possible. Besides modern grindhouse pedigree They Bite has a lot of cred toward its explotation title. Little warning, this movie's kind one of those hard-R blue pics so some of the scenes I describe are "NSFW" ( Read more... )
COMING SOON TO DVD: The mind-shattering Horribly Slow Murderer EXTENDED CUT!!! http://www.richard-gale.com for details. Winner of 12 Film Festival Awards! Produced, Written and Directed by Richard Gale Cast: Jack Cucchiaio........Paul Clemens The Murderer...........Brian Rohan The Mystic...............Fay Kato The Girlfriend...........Melissa Paladino The Doctor...............Mike Kacey Music by Christopher Brady Special Makeup FX by Dean Jones and Paul Clemens Details at http://www.richard-gale.comimdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1301160/
Things my video collection doesn't have enough of: Chapter 1 - Head Crushing.
For this month's Peck of The Month I'm trying to recreate last year's amazing October feat by reviewing the most unwatchable B-movies in cinema history. Trailing right behind War of The Robots is... Video Demons do Psycho TownI'm pretty sure I've only seen this movie once so maybe I'm misjudging it and I still like the title (or it's alternate title "Bloodbath in Psychotown"). Then again maybe I don't remember it too well because my brain started killing select potions of itself as a defensive response. I seriously don't remember much about it, aside from being cheesy and boring and I've decided to go with the review as I watch approach today. ( Read more... )
Well I'm back at the Haunted House this year. http://www.bloodmanor.com/Skipped last year's peck of the month due to having a truckload of haunted house related work dumped on me but I'll try to make it up soon. Any Wereturkey member who private message me with their real names and the day they're coming can get upgraded to the VIP line (much faster than the 2 to 3 hour wait general admission line) and maybe a discount. I have to tell my boss and the ticket guy in advance so remember to pm or email me.
I have not seen this so I'm not sure if it's bad enough to be posted on this community, however the person who posted a review blasted it so completely... I think it really could be considered for a post here. As you might guess, it's a retelling of Romeo & Juliet with seals. ( Spoilers )
Sandahl Bergman, of Conan The Barbarian and Red Sonja fame, had a too short (in my opinion) appearance in sword and sorcery films. Back in 1982 she starred in She, which was very loosely based on a novel from 1887. I wish I could include some other clips from this movie, which is in my collection, because there are quite a few worth sharing. However, here's one I found on YouTube: Taken from IMDB: " In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks."
Boomer and I did our thing for the first time in a long time. Due to the long break between battles I had a subconscious fear that the wait until the next one would be as long or longer so I brought out some really fun stuff. I started with Petey Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son in Law). One of the craziest movies ever produced and most likely the most insane blaxploitation movie ever made. Rudy Ray Moore (of Dolomite! fame) plays a stand up comic who's killed by rival stand up comics over a comedy club territory dispute. After that things get nonsensical as Moore makes a deal with the Satan to avenge his own death, then he karate fights the Devil. This is a hilariously stupid movie. Boomer brought Kronos, the story of a robot building thing that tries to steal all of the planet's energy. While featuring a unique monster the writing is really shoddy and loaded with obvious padding. The technobabble resolution was the final insult. Truly an archetype of everything wrong with 50's atomic sci-fi. I then suggested we take a trip to a local video store and rummage through their clearance bins. I was thrilled when Boomer found a copy of The Devil's Sword. He picked up four other DVDs and we took advantage of the stores buy 4 get 1 free pricing. With no reason to wait I was confident that The Devil's Sword (Golok Setan) would be an ultra choice for the occasion. I had posted the trailer to the group only a few months ago and it's one of my favorites. The Devil's Sword was nearly as good as promised, a fun, utterly retarded martial arts splatterfest with a swords and sorcery setting. It's like Shaw Brothers Studios had a baby with that studio that Made Deathstalker and those other Conan ripoffs in the 80's, except the mother was also drinking cocktails of bad editing and vodka during the pregnancy. We finished with Boomer's newly acquired Centipede!, a fairly typical 00's Direct to Video thriller that had one exceptional feature: the special effects were almost all practical and there was very little CGI. A lot of studios would have gone with cheap, cellophane looking graphics but here they had decent animatronics. Aside from that the movie was formulaic and the characters where unlikable to an almost comical degree. The movie takes place in India so I discovered that Boomer completely lacks the ability to understand English spoken with an Indian accent. I recommend seeing any of these movies, though I recommend Petey Wheatstraw the most strongly. and my feeling about Kronos are a bit half hearted.
Well, I'm a bit sick and I have a lot of work I need to catch up on so my plan of doing two reviews in the span of a month is not looking so great. Matters not. I found something as good as or better than a review for you all. Both seasons of the excellently kitschy spy-fi/kaiju series Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot is available on Hulu. This is some of the most cornball spy action and rubber monster intrigue ever filmed. The effects, dialogue, plots and especially main villains are totally laughable. It's surprisingly violent too. Not only does short pants'ed schoolboy Johnny Sokko get his own flying robot, when he becomes a superspy they issue him a an actual pistol and he kills more than a few actual people in the run of the series. It's up there with Johnny Quest in terms of excessive violent deaths for a children's show. The monsters are expectably silly but some of them are quite unique and unusual, a strange departure for the usual man in a rubber suit stanby. I'm impartial to the monsters Ligon-Tyrox, The Flying Jawbone and Igganog. The only thing wrong is that they mislabeled the episode order. The correct order is: 01. Dracolon, The Great Sea Monster, 02. Nucleon, The Magic Globe, 03. The Gargoyle Vine - A Space Plant, 04. Monster Ligon-Tyrox, A Strange Monster, 05. The Gigantic Claw, 06. Dragon, The Ninja Monster, 07. Our Enemy - Scalion, 08. The Challenge of the Two-Headed Monster, 09. Tentaclon - An Electric Monster, 10. The Transformed Humans, 11. The Terrifying Sand Creature, 12. Amberon The Synthetic Monster, 13. Opticorn Must Be Destroyed, 14. The Monstrous Flying Jawbone, 15. Igganog - The Ice-Berg Monster, 16. Torozon - An Enemy Robot, 17. Destroy the Dam, 18. X-7, A Mysterious Enemy Agent, 19. "Metron" - The Mysterious Space-Man, 20. Beware - The Radion Globe, 21. The Terrifying Space Mummy, 22. Clash of the Giant Robots, 23. "Dr, Eingali - Master of Evil", 24. "Hydrazona" - A Terrifying Bacteria, 25. "Drakulon" - Creature of Doom, 26. The Last of Emperor Guillotine http://www.hulu.com/johnny-sokko-and-his-flying-robot
Poor Donald Pleasance. That man can never catch a break. Notice the not at all subtle homage to Todd Browning's Freaks.
Really just a music video but it's got the feel of some really awful but fun movie.
Last week's gutting of my monthly review could only hinder me for so long. I think I remember most of what I wrote so here we go again. This might be considered the delayed July Peck of the Month. If by some miracle I can muster the strength I will review another movie at the end of the month to make up for it. New York has some fine movies. A city of many facets it's been an integral setting of diverse films such as Taxi Driver, Ghost Busters, Bringing Out The Dead, King Kong and Shaft. But we're not here to talk about movies like that, are we? No, we're talking about the flipside of NYC movies, your Jason Takes Manhattans, your Prime Evils , your Robot Holocausts. When you're talking about bad movies made in New York City you're talking about Andy Milligan. Andy Milligan was a New York film and theater type who's film career can be divided into Z-grade horror movies like Torture Dungeon and The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! or gay porn. Could this man be the key to my quest to locate the fabled worst movie ever shot in New York City? I have strong evidence for a yes with... Carnage( Read more... )
It's like they made a movie of Twisted Metal years before the game even came out :P
Supposedly very little dialogue in this one, almost all action.
I was going to write a peck of the month but LJ's normally capable autosave ate most of my 4/5th's complete article and my heart's just not into it now.
Where you headed?
Down river. We got an idea maybe we can make it to the island.
What island?
...any island.( Read more... )
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