The Alcove - French poster
I love everything about this poster of Joe D'Amato's L'alcova. The boxed off artwork, the bold yellow title and the partly exposed boobs make for a fantastically sleazy image.
Elke Sommer’s scream
Elke Sommer is great as Baron Blood's leading lady and delivers some incredible, bloodcurdling screams. The clip below is her screeching highlight with its nerve-racking delay and Sommer's fingers-in-mouth expression of terror.
Cruel Jaws (1995)
While it may be the laziest and shittiest work of his career, and it's certainly the most shameless as he steals from both Universal and his Italian peers, Bruno Mattei made magic with Cruel Jaws. Stupid magic, but magic nonetheless.
The Blowjob Messiah
This scene from Whore Angels features an angelic prostitute healing the sick and the old through the power of a good blowjob.
Under the Rose (1992)
While Under the Rose may be obnoxious trash, it's also an astonishing piece of history. Here is a film that simply could not exist today.
Chow Yun Fat wakes a man up with piss
A Hearty Response is perhaps the definitive schizophrenic Hong Kong film; a film that features ham-fisted comedy and brutal rape scenes side by side. The clip below slots into the ham-fisted comedy category.
Guinea Pig in Cosplay: The Heroine Zankoku Monogatari series
The Heroine Zankoku Monogatari series is a repetitive clusterfuck of superheroines, cackling villains, wrestling moves, jizzy vomit, dismemberment, guts slapping on screaming faces, and endless, endless, endless punches. And it's porn, by the way.
Jaws - Thai posters
The combination of the two best things in the world - sharks and Thai posters - is actually a little too much for me... I think I might throw up.
Best man-scream ever?
I find myself entranced by Dungeon of Harrow, completely in awe of its otherworldly weirdness as I wonder what planet it was filmed on.
Jamila (ジャミラ Jamira)
Jamila's episode takes its monster seriously and replaces the sometimes painfully jokey tone of the show with a grim sadness. Yes, Jamila is perhaps Ultraman's most heartrending foe.
Open House - Japanese VHS cover
During my stay in Japan last month, I made sure to stock up on films to review, picking up a tidy pile of videos and DVDs. A handful I grabbed purely for the cover art. This is one of those.
Kangaroo fisticuffs in Hong Kong
In this week's clip, we follow Killer's Nocturne's hero (Chin Siu-hou) downward spiral into the seedy world of underground fighting. The pain is tolerable, until a kangaroo is introduced as a contender.
