Haze (2005)
Click on any article I’ve written on Mondo Exploito and you’ll see I’m full of dribbling praise for a variety of filmmakers. Very few, however, sit on as high a pedestal as Shinya Tsukamoto. I worship Tsukamoto and perhaps have more respect for him than any other filmmaker. Just browsing his IMDB page is jaw-dropping....
Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1978)
Many film fanatics are familiar with Mexi-horror thanks to the plethora of classic lucha libre films that inundated the market from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. Those films usually incorporated things like mummies, vampires, robots, werewolves, and aliens, but they were more action and feel-good films than horror. However, underneath those very popular...
Amazing releases from Death Waltz Recording Company
So, I don’t know how I missed this until now, but I stumbled across Death Waltz Recording Company yesterday and nearly had a horror-nerd heart attack. Death Waltz release deluxe vinyl records of soundtracks and scores, often for films that have not been seen on vinyl for decades or even never before. I highly recommend...
High Risk (1995)
HIGH RISK Hong Kong, 1995, Wong Jing/Wai-Lun Lam One of the things I love about Hong Kong action movies is that they never shy away from depicting massive civilian casualties. And not only that, they are usually quite blase about it too. High Risk is one such movie. It will go from one minute...
Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat (1988)
About a hundred years ago, when I was a teenager, my obsession with Philip Brophy’s underrated Body Melt (1993) began. At the video store, they had a rental deal – “rent ten videos for five bucks” or something – and Body Melt was tossed in to make up numbers. Who would’ve thought I’d luck out...
Blow-Up – Japanese poster
It’s not all that different from the original artwork, but there’s something about the Japanese poster for Blow-Up (1966) that I love. I think perhaps it is the simplicity of the design and the choice of colours that I appreciate – this is very different from your usual Japanese movie poster. Movie: Blow-Up Director: Michelangelo...
Seagal’s finest bar brawl
Steven Seagal loves bar brawls. This clip from Out for Justice (1991) is my favourite Seagal bar brawl – and possibly even my favourite Seagal scene ever. Enjoy as Seagal arrogantly swaggers his way through the fight taking on a stupid amount of tough guys and barely receiving a scratch in the process.
The Rider of the Skulls (1965)
Every now and then, I come across a movie that leaves me speechless – and I’m someone that likes to talk. A movie that leaves me speechless will be one that bombards me with so much amazing shit – good or bad – that I don’t know where to start when recommending it to someone....
Welcome to the Video Nasties #3
The video nasty train keeps on rolling forward. if you haven’t done so already, read the first two entries in this series here and here. Then dive into the next ten films. I still marvel at how beautiful some of this artwork is. It was truly a special time to be a film fan. Please...
Galeria del Terror (1987)
Welcome to Latsploitation! Latin America is a hotbed for funny, explosive, weird, fantastic, sexy films, and this is the space where latsploitation’s hidden gems will be celebrated, deconstructed, and shared. Picking a film to get things rolling was no easy task, but the Argentinian duo of Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel quickly climbed to the...
Demolition University (1999)
DEMOLITION UNIVERSITY 1999, Kevin Tenney If I can offer only one piece of advice to the impressionable youths out there in internet land, it is this: Don’t go to university. Or more importantly, don’t go to university if you are going to study anything that doesn’t lead to a specific vocation. Study to be...
Inn of the Damned (1975)
Australia may not have a particularly impressive history of horror and exploitation, but in recent years – especially thanks to the attention brought by the deservedly lauded documentary Not Quite Hollywood (2008) – we have been reminded that a few gems peppered the past decades. Great films like Next of Kin (1982) and The Long...
