To Hell with the Devil (1981)
TO HELL WITH THE DEVIL 1981, John Woo THWTD stars Hong Kong 1980s comedy mainstay, Ricky Hui as Bruce. Bruce is a lovesick songwriter, conman and aspiring pop star who also happens to be in love with the fickle, Peggy. The unscrupulous management of an evil pop star called Rocky manage to steal one of...
Action movie blu-ray/DVD poetry contest!
To celebrate the addition of our latest regular article, Tough Guys, we’re having a contest/giveaway! If you win, you’ll receive a couple of horrible action movies on blu-ray and DVD. All you have to do is write a short poem about your favourite tough guy of yesteryear. Who’s your favourite action star? Seagal? Lundgren? Van...
The One Armed Executioner (1983)
As every exploitation movie nerd knows, a film shot in the Philippines is a guarantee of explosions, helicopters and uncomfortably dangerous looking stunts. And when it’s not only filmed in the Philippines but also produced by a Filipino, you’ll know that the good times will be increased tenfold – that is assuming you have a...
Videodrome – Japanese poster
Videodrome is one of Cronenberg’s finest – it’s nearly my favourite of his, just trailing a smidgen behind Dead Ringers. Personally, I feel that most of the artwork used to promote Videodrome doesn’t do the film justice. With the exception of this Japanese poster… Movie: Videodrome Director: David Cronenberg Country of movie: Canada Year of...
Best gunshot reaction ever?
In response to Pierre’s immensely popular Worst gunshot reaction ever?, I give you the BEST gunshot reaction ever! Taken from Filipino classic The One Armed Executioner (1983) – available from Australia’s best provider of horror and exploitation, Monster Pictures – this clip gives us a guy who just looks plain disappointed to be shot in...
On Deadly Ground (1994)
My relationship with Steven Seagal is strange. Even I don’t entirely understand it. While Seagal is very much laughable now (yet still enjoyable), I genuinely love his early films – and that’s a mostly irony-free love. Above the Law (1988), Out for Justice (1991), Marked for Death (1990) and, to a lesser extent, Hard to...
Nekonade (2008)
After scrawling out a stack of Nihon Nihilism posts, I’ve begun to feel a little guilty of my one-sided treatment of the Land of the Rising Sun. I love Japan and I love Japanese cinema. The Japanese movie industry is obviously not entirely made up of bleak films, and my interests do not purely reside...
My Tutor (1983)
MY TUTOR 1983, George Bowers Matt Lattanzi, who played some guy called Brad in Grease 2, stars in this thoroughly mediocre teen sex comedy from the early days of the 80s. Light on the funnies, boobs and all that other stuff that makes 80s cinema great, My Tutor delivers little worth remembering. Except for one...
Phantasmes (1977)
I worship Jean Rollin (click here for Mondo Exploito’s Rollin Starter Pack). The man was a truly unique filmmaker; brilliant, obsessed with certain themes and often maligned and misunderstood. I’ve seen practically everything he made in his long and accomplished career and can’t name a single film by him I haven’t appreciated on some level....
Weekend at Bernie’s – Polish poster
It’s not exactly an exploitation film, but I think Weekend at Bernie’s is trashy enough to make an appearance on Mondo Exploito. For some odd reason, Poland saw fit to make this fantastic poster for its Polish theatrical release. While I like Weekend at Bernie’s, it certainly does not deserve such a great poster! Movie:...
Um… what the fuck, Seagal?!
There’s no denying that Steven Seagal likes breaking necks. He also enjoys breaking arms and throwing motherfuckers through windows too. But he really, really likes breaking necks. In Urban Justice (known as Renegade Justice outside of America), Seagal lovingly demonstrates his fondness of a good neck snappin’ by paralysing/murdering several reasonably harmless lackeys. Here is...
Entrails of a Virgin (1986)
Sometimes the title of a movie is so obnoxious that it’s enough to leave me shaking in excitement, throwing me into a frenzy of scavenging as I hunt a copy down. Perhaps that’s why I’m so obsessed with Japanese exploitation. With titles like Apartment Wife: Ass Slave (1985) and White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets...
