Karate Bear Fighter – Japanese poster
How is it that a movie called Karate Bear Fighter — with Sonny Chiba in the lead, no less — managed to slip me by for my entire thirty years of life on this planet?
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Death Bed is a surreal film, or at least it aims for surrealism. It has pretensions to be something more than a schlocky horror movie, despite, and I’ll say this again and again, it is a film about a bed that eats people.
Tentacles – Japanese poster
Is it any real surprise that the best poster for a movie called Tentacles would come from Japan?
Hausu (1977) – full soundtrack
This is a short post tonight because, quite frankly, if you haven’t seen Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1977 mindfuck, ‘Hausu’, there is very little I can say about it. All I can suggest is that you watch it. The soundtrack is just as confusing as the film itself, featuring corny synth pop jingles, swampy blues, woeful vocal numbers, funk and…...
Toilet friendships from Ilsa: The Wicked Warden
A truly beautiful scene depicting friendships in a women’s prison courtesy of Jess Franco’s 1977 classic, “Ilsa: The Wicked Warden”. You either love the Ilsa films or you don’t. I love them. [youtube=http://youtu.be/ezDnYKoq7EU&w=540]
