The one time when ANDREW LEAVOLD introduced the wild Filipino zombie kung-fu flick RAW FORCE ... with DON GORDON BELL!!!

I've always thought this intro was cool, but hardly anybody on YouTube has seen it!

Andrew Leavold introducing the HIGHLY entertaining and WILD zombie kung-fu film RAW FORCE with Don Gordon Bell.

Needless to say, it's cool not least since Don Gordon Bell was in RAW FORCE (and many other truly psychotronic Filipino flicks as well). 

The intro video was made for a screening in Switzerland (the two of them were not in Switzerland but in Manila). The YouTube description dates the video to 29. January 2019. 

Sadly, Don Gordon Bell passed away a few years ago. He was a Korean-American who lived much of his life in the Philippines. I had a wee bit of facebook contact with him but never got to meet him.

Andrew has written a bit of info about him and posted quite a few fotos over on his blog Name That Filipino Actor! RIP, Don. 

From Andrew Leavold's blog Name That Filipino Actor!

New doco about old geezers who still play/believe in punk music

Here's a teaser trailer for a brand new documentary film called VIVE LE PUNK which is about a handful of ancient (very ancient) UK punk bands, Sham 69, 999, Ruts DC and The Boys, and their stance on punk these days. It looks great. 

The uploader of the trailer is (I believe) the company behind the film. 

Their info on YouTube:

50 years after the British Punk explosion, this documentary follows four bands that are still active today (Sham 69, 999, Ruts DC, and The Boys) and features interviews with Charlie Harper, Joe Corre, Dr. John Cooper Clarke, Gaye Advert, and other Punk Rock luminaries in search of the meaning of Punk and the relevance of its message today.

LYDIA LUNCH on Women of Rock Oral History Project (11.11.2019)

Lydia Lunch talking about who the fuck she is on the "Women of Rock Oral History Project" channel in 2019. For 70 minutes! This is great! 

ENTER THE DEVIL (usa, 1972)

True grindhouse print!

SWV's dvd-r release of ENTER THE DEVIL (unfortunately
this low-res upload of the cover was all I could find)

Devil worship, chanting and the ol'e well tried sacrificing of hot Mexican women in the Texan hinterland (TCM territory!). I've been watching Something Weird Videos' (although they now omit "video" from their name) grindhouse print of ENTER THE DEVIL (dir: Frank Q. Dobbs) via Cultpix (a joint streaming service set up by the good people behind the label Klubb Super 8 in Sweden, and now with SWV as one of their partners). Open matte and more colourful than the Blu-ray print from Massacre Video (which I was able to check as somebody has uploaded it to DailyMotion). I was fully entertained.

Here's a link to the trailer on the Cultpix/SWV streaming site (subscription not needed for the trailer)

Ya wan hot latino wooman wit da beer, gringo? 

Full film (i.e. the SWV print) on YouTube:

PS: And welcome to 2026! Mein gott, it's been 8 or 9 months already since my last post - I haven't posted anything since October! This place is DYING, haha. Maybe time to revive it. Or not. Does anybody read film and pop-culture blogs anymore anyway!?