Sexual Harrassment Dinosaur
One Million AC/DC stands as one of the worst movies I’ve ever sat through. Written by Ed Wood, this is not an enjoyable bad movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space, this is proper bad. A soft-core caveman “comedy”, One Million AC/DC is made up of hideous sex scenes with emaciated women and obese men...
Serial Rapist (1978)
Kôji Wakamatsu is a familiar name for those that enjoy the darker and sleazier side of Japanese cinema. With an endless supply of popular pinku films – with awesomely exploitative titles like The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), Violated Angels (1967) and Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) – to his name, delving into Wakamatsu’s...
EEGAH (1962)
It must have been about ten years ago now, when I was perusing the DVDs in a bargain bin at my local newsagency. One doesn’t expect to find the cream of cinema’s crop in a newsagency bargain bin. I don’t know how they obtain their peculiar selection on Z-grade DVDs, but I assume money laundering...
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Lee is awesome. I often say he is the greatest man in the world… like ever. People think I’m joking. I’m not. Lee is the Dark Prince of Hammer; Hammer’s own Boris Karloff. He’s played all the great monsters: Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s Monster. Yet, as witnessed in Hammers like The...
Royal Warriors (1986)
ROYAL WARRIORS 1986, Dir: David Chung Royal Warriors (AKA In the Line of Duty), stars Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as the imaginatively named super cop, Michelle Yip. On her plane ride home to Hong Kong from a holiday in Japan, Michelle encounters a pair of men terrorising the passengers on this luxurious...
Action cinema from Hong Kong’s golden era
I love a good old fashioned bit of action cinema, the more violent, hectic and stunt-laden the better. And where better to go for the excesses of action cinema, than the home of the “heroic bloodshed” genre, Hong Kong. And of course, what better era for such extravagance than the 1980s through to the mid-90s....
Godzilla vs. Megalon – US one sheet
This post is a bit indulgent. The reason why the US one sheet of Godzilla vs. Megalon (original title: Gojira tai Megaro) is this week’s poster is because I recently won it on ebay. It has been my most sought after poster for a while now. It hardly ever shows up for sale, so, despite...
Saxophone sex scene
Saxophones really had their day in the 1980s. They were the ultimate instrument of seduction and received endless wailing solos. Now their sexy past is often mocked and degraded, while they remain sadly absent from mainstream music. Perhaps our obsession with retro will bring the much missed sax, but until then here is a clip...
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
When you think of Hammer Film Productions, things that may spring to mind are Dracula or Frankenstein. You think of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Michael Ripper. Images of decadent locations, lavish costumes and tasteful stories appear. You might even be reminded of the cheese of productions like One Million Years B.C. (1966) or the...
Return to Oz (1985)
Microscopic tendrils of anxiety have started worming their way into each pore on my body. I’m on the cusp of something… something that has wreaked havoc deep within my psyche for many, many years. From where I am now, they’re little more than abstract fragments of horror – fragments wired into my brain, sending shocks...
Posters from Pakistan
In my journey to find ridiculous Godzilla posters, I came across some truly insane posters from Pakistan. Unlike the hand-painted and endearing silliness of Ghanaian advertisements or the flat out brilliant painted chaos of Thai posters, these posters are just plain ridiculous. It is almost as if the designers went out of their way to make...
Over the Summer (1984)
OVER THE SUMMER 1984, dir: Teresa Sparks Some time around 2004 I became cripplingly panicked with fear. It was during the time I was beginning to cultivate a somewhat healthy DVD collection. I realised, as I searched for some of my favourite absurd movies on this several year old, yet fairly-new-to-me platform, that they...
