Mondo Macabro have just opened a "Cult Movie TV" site. So far you can watch a spiffy two part collection of wild Lollywood movies entitled LOLLYWOOD MOVIE MADNESS. There's also the beginning of VEERANA which as I've mentioned earlier is on the upcoming Bollywood dvd with Ramsay bros horror! Pretty cool stuff. And finally there's a cool interview with Mel Welles (who was in tons of psychotronic movies like Attack of the Crab Monsters, and The Little Shop of Horrors). You'll find the site right here.
Here's a trailer for PURANI HAVELI (the other film on the Bollywood vol.2 dvd):
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Mitr Chaibancha, Fred's film, Kwai's blog, and Thai cinema in general
On October 8, 1970, at Dongtan Beach, Jomtien, Pattaya, movie star Mitr Chaibancha was filming the final stunt for his latest film, Golden Eagle (Insee Thong).
He grabbed onto the rope ladder of a helicopter, and was borne off into the sunset, with the aircraft climbing higher and higher as the action star dangled. He lost his grip and fell to the ground.
He was 36 years old. Thailand's most iconic star, he starred in a staggering 266 movies from 1956 to 1970, many of them with his doe-eyed onscreen sweetheart Petchara Chaowarat. There's a shrine to Mitr in Jomtien.
[the above quotation is borrowed from Wise Kwai and I recommend you read the rest here]
Some months ago Fred posted a short documentary film he'd made about the Thai superstar Mitr Chaibancha over on his blog. Now, a couple of years ago I read a special edition of Asian Trash Cinema on Thai action and horror movies but altho I've since then tried to keep up with Thai horror I'm by no means an expert and I must admit I knew nothing about Mitr Chaibancha until I watched Fred's film (which he won a spiffy prize for on Swedish television, btw). So have a look at Fred's film, it's in the language of the old Vikings but even if you don't capisce it all you'll get an idea of who he was (and you can get all the info you need by reading the rest of the article I linked to in the above).
By the way, the above link is to the mothership of all blogs on Thai cinema; "Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal". I'll advise you spend a few hours there if you wanna know anything about Thai films. The blog is in English and done by a Western (American I think) journo who lives in Thailand. It's a very informative and well written blog.
And talking about Thai films; If you've ever tried to figure out what's out on dvd and vcd in Thailand and what's not you have most likely discovered it's a JUNGLE out there!! Almost impossible to figure out what's released, what's not released, and what's OOP and not!! Well, on Wise Kwai's blog I found a link to another blog (of yet another English speaking Westerner living there) who's actually compiled a list of classic (pre 1970) films that are on Thai dvds subtitled in English (unfortunately most Thai dvds have no English option).
You'll find the list here.
By the way, I'm by no means being rude here in not mentioning who any of these Anglo Thai blog people are but I guess they're shy people as none of them actually reveal their identities. LOL.
Here's Fred's film:
[PS: remember to switch the sound off on this blog's jukebox which you'll find at the bottom of this page! Yeah, what a fucken hassle, LOL]
And here's a trailer for Mitr Chaibancha's last film Golden Eagle (Insee Thong) (I'm not sure the music was supposed to cover the dialogue but it's the only trailer I could find):
Golden Eagle is one of the films that are now out on English subbed Thai dvd.
Mere spas med WebAvisen
[more nonsense in Greek! Sorry!!]
Man husker mit indlæg fra forleden (ellers kig her). Det lader stadig ikke til, at WebAvisen har fået råd til en Retskrivningsordbog, LOL. Check her, hvor man grotesk nok bringer artiklen "Undervisninsminister staver elendigt" (nej, det er ikke en and! Undervisningsminister uden G)
Man husker mit indlæg fra forleden (ellers kig her). Det lader stadig ikke til, at WebAvisen har fået råd til en Retskrivningsordbog, LOL. Check her, hvor man grotesk nok bringer artiklen "Undervisninsminister staver elendigt" (nej, det er ikke en and! Undervisningsminister uden G)
Nine o'clock news
Finally a proper news program. :-)
Unfortunately the embedded clip isn't working but you can watch it here.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The return of Weng
Gee, gosh, golly! Wonders do happen in Cyberspace; after three complaints from Andrew Blogspot/Blogger decided to let him have his blog back!! So here it is again: "The Search For Weng Weng". Congrats! (and good for us!!)
Monday, February 9, 2009
New links & shit
Check out the bar to the right on this page. I've added some links to fave sites, blogs, and good folks who link to me. Obviously, I don't advise you leave this blog to read theirs before you're thru with everything here, LOL.
NB: Do notice that I have a link to Mondo Macabro's old UK site which nobody else (let alone MM themselves) link to!!! There you can check info on their old PAL releases.
NB: Do notice that I have a link to Mondo Macabro's old UK site which nobody else (let alone MM themselves) link to!!! There you can check info on their old PAL releases.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
No more Weng Weng (blog)
If you go to Andrew Leavold's "The Search For Weng Weng" blog you'll find it isn't there anymore. The fuckfaces that are blogger.com decided it was, get this, SPAM!! And deleted it! So no more Weng Weng blog. I did a Google search to find an old ghost version of the blog to save but it seems they've somehow managed to delete the old versions as well. Boo-hoo. All that info gone forever.
Ahh, the good old days
GORE WHORE (1994)
Recently, I won a copy of Hugh Gallagher's underground splatter flick GORE WHORE from 1994 on eBay. Unfortunately, it's quite rare and even more unfortunate is the fact that mr. Gallagher hasn't understood the importance in re-releasing this, ahm, charming independent production on one of those shiny little disks. Anyway, after having searched high and low for a copy for quite a while I finally found it at an auction a couple of weeks back and was able to watch it last night. And, whoah, it was totally like being back in the old splatter flick days of the late 80s, early 90s!
A scientist hires a lowlife private dick to find some chick who stole one of his formulas. The looser PI discovers the thieving chick isn't just capable of nicking secret formulas she's also a vampire hooker!! Haha, no shit. GORE WHORE is kinda a low budget (veeery low budget) relative of RE-ANIMATOR. Not only do the dead come back to life in the midst of bucket-fulls of gore, they're also brought back by using the old tried and well known green gooey stuff! However, in contradiction to RE-ANIMATOR it's just not injected in the same, ahm, way. The vampire hooker injects herself by using a big syringe DILDO!! Haha. Oh, and everyone else gets it up the ass. LOL x 10.
GORE WHORE is Hugh Gallagher's final film in his splatter trilogy; The other two being GOROTICA (1993) and GOREGASM (1990), and because I'm a fan of these amateur productions needless to say I was ENTERTAINED aplenty! These little flicks made by splatter movie fans in their backyard (or their mum's backyard) were nothing like the "real" films but they sure are fun to watch. And you don't need to ask; Yes, I also love films like VIOLENT SHIT 3 and stuff like NEKROMANTIK, THEY DON'T CUT THE GRASS ANYMORE, and the PLAGA ZOMBIE movies.
If you Google for reviews of these films you'll find a 100 so-called horror review sites that shits all over them. I really don't get it, these so-called "fans" are more fans of EXPENSIVE horror movies than they're true horror movie fans. I mean it's like they're too gone on everything having to be fucken WELL PRODUCED than it has to be FUN! These films were made by fans who had no money and thus often had budgets of around 20 dollars. But to me that don't matter none! What matters is whether they're fun to watch or not. GORE WHORE contains gore, gooey dildos, cool music, and nudity. What's not to like! Oh, and D'Lana Tunnell (hubba hubba) is in it as well. She was also in the AMAZING film SORE LOSERS that had Jack Oblivian (of the cool garage band The Oblivians) in it (as a rockabilly cat from the 50s who is sent to present day USA in his car to kill some guy!!) along with the way coolest band ever; Guitar Wolf!
Yeah sure the sound is muffled and the picture grainy and the video tape looks like the director re-used some old ex-rental tapes he got from a porn store to shoot on but quite frankly I don't give a toss. If you have the slightest interest in old-skool splatter films go ahead and see if you can find GORE WHORE. You're not likely to stumble over an original tape but there's bootlegs out there. Unfortunately, I still haven't got hold of GOROTICA but I'm sure I'll get it some day. If you look long enough you'll find everything.
So what happened with the director I hear ya ask. Well, he went off and started Draculina Publishing (that among other things publish the girlie horror mag "Draculina") and runs a mag/book eStore. I wrote to him last year and tried to get him to help me find these films but, well, I guess he doesn't give a fuck about them these days cos despite having sent him three emails (to a working address) he never bothered sending me an answer. Oh well, I found GORE WHORE anyway but it's a pity some people turn their back on their own past none-the-less. Oh well.
Recently, I won a copy of Hugh Gallagher's underground splatter flick GORE WHORE from 1994 on eBay. Unfortunately, it's quite rare and even more unfortunate is the fact that mr. Gallagher hasn't understood the importance in re-releasing this, ahm, charming independent production on one of those shiny little disks. Anyway, after having searched high and low for a copy for quite a while I finally found it at an auction a couple of weeks back and was able to watch it last night. And, whoah, it was totally like being back in the old splatter flick days of the late 80s, early 90s!
A scientist hires a lowlife private dick to find some chick who stole one of his formulas. The looser PI discovers the thieving chick isn't just capable of nicking secret formulas she's also a vampire hooker!! Haha, no shit. GORE WHORE is kinda a low budget (veeery low budget) relative of RE-ANIMATOR. Not only do the dead come back to life in the midst of bucket-fulls of gore, they're also brought back by using the old tried and well known green gooey stuff! However, in contradiction to RE-ANIMATOR it's just not injected in the same, ahm, way. The vampire hooker injects herself by using a big syringe DILDO!! Haha. Oh, and everyone else gets it up the ass. LOL x 10.
GORE WHORE is Hugh Gallagher's final film in his splatter trilogy; The other two being GOROTICA (1993) and GOREGASM (1990), and because I'm a fan of these amateur productions needless to say I was ENTERTAINED aplenty! These little flicks made by splatter movie fans in their backyard (or their mum's backyard) were nothing like the "real" films but they sure are fun to watch. And you don't need to ask; Yes, I also love films like VIOLENT SHIT 3 and stuff like NEKROMANTIK, THEY DON'T CUT THE GRASS ANYMORE, and the PLAGA ZOMBIE movies.
If you Google for reviews of these films you'll find a 100 so-called horror review sites that shits all over them. I really don't get it, these so-called "fans" are more fans of EXPENSIVE horror movies than they're true horror movie fans. I mean it's like they're too gone on everything having to be fucken WELL PRODUCED than it has to be FUN! These films were made by fans who had no money and thus often had budgets of around 20 dollars. But to me that don't matter none! What matters is whether they're fun to watch or not. GORE WHORE contains gore, gooey dildos, cool music, and nudity. What's not to like! Oh, and D'Lana Tunnell (hubba hubba) is in it as well. She was also in the AMAZING film SORE LOSERS that had Jack Oblivian (of the cool garage band The Oblivians) in it (as a rockabilly cat from the 50s who is sent to present day USA in his car to kill some guy!!) along with the way coolest band ever; Guitar Wolf!
Yeah sure the sound is muffled and the picture grainy and the video tape looks like the director re-used some old ex-rental tapes he got from a porn store to shoot on but quite frankly I don't give a toss. If you have the slightest interest in old-skool splatter films go ahead and see if you can find GORE WHORE. You're not likely to stumble over an original tape but there's bootlegs out there. Unfortunately, I still haven't got hold of GOROTICA but I'm sure I'll get it some day. If you look long enough you'll find everything.
So what happened with the director I hear ya ask. Well, he went off and started Draculina Publishing (that among other things publish the girlie horror mag "Draculina") and runs a mag/book eStore. I wrote to him last year and tried to get him to help me find these films but, well, I guess he doesn't give a fuck about them these days cos despite having sent him three emails (to a working address) he never bothered sending me an answer. Oh well, I found GORE WHORE anyway but it's a pity some people turn their back on their own past none-the-less. Oh well.
Friday, February 6, 2009
WebAvisen censurerer bort Jack J
[apologies to my international readers for this outburst in the lingo of the old Norsemen]
Hahaha, den er sgu go' nok! Jeg har i dag oplevet den store ære at blive udsat for censur fra Internet-avisen WebAvisen.dk!!
I går skrev en anonym "journalist" (and I use the term loosely) en dødsannonce over Lux Interiors død og startede med sætningen: "Han ked af en hjertesygdom og sov ind på et hospital i Glendale, Californien, i går". Han "KED"??? Bedre blev det ikke senere, hvor der var flere grove fejl af både retskrivningsmæssig, grammatisk, og faktuel karakter (bl.a. påstod skribenten, at der er udsendt et Cramps-album med titlen: "Live at Napa State Mental Hospital", hvilket jo er en direkte løgn).
WebAvisen tilbyder, at læserne kan kommentere artiklerne, så jeg påpegede fejlene og tilføjede ikke overraskende, at jeg ikke håbede, at de aflønnede deres korrekturlæser med andet end et par bananer, haha.
Well, hos WebAvisen har man altså tilsyneladende hverken HUMOR eller FAGLIG STOLTHED, for ikke alene er mit indlæg nu pist borte, men man har sågar ladet de grelle fejl få lov at stå (man kunne måske spekulere i, at et indlæg kun ville få lov til at stå i en enkelt dag og det var derfor, at det nu er væk og ikke pga. censur, men her skal lige tilføjes, at andre indlæg fra dagene før har fået lov at stå urørte hen).
En af de fordele, som net-udgivelser har fremfor det trykte medie, er ellers, at man netop kan gå ind og rette fejl og mangler med det samme uden at skulle vente på et dyrt genoptryk eller lade dem stå til evig tid.
Oh well, hos WebAvisen vil man tilsyneladende heller, at de ansatte fremstår som journalister med diplom fra Zoologisk Have fremfor Journalisthøjskolen, end man vil tage kritikken til sig og få fejlene rettet. Og at avisen samtidig kommer til at fremstå som en bedre Sovjet-avis med en finger evigt plantet oven på censur-knappen gør tilsyneladende heller ikke noget. Hvor sørgeligt.
WebAvisens dødsannonce over Lux Interior kan læses her.
Hahaha, den er sgu go' nok! Jeg har i dag oplevet den store ære at blive udsat for censur fra Internet-avisen WebAvisen.dk!!
I går skrev en anonym "journalist" (and I use the term loosely) en dødsannonce over Lux Interiors død og startede med sætningen: "Han ked af en hjertesygdom og sov ind på et hospital i Glendale, Californien, i går". Han "KED"??? Bedre blev det ikke senere, hvor der var flere grove fejl af både retskrivningsmæssig, grammatisk, og faktuel karakter (bl.a. påstod skribenten, at der er udsendt et Cramps-album med titlen: "Live at Napa State Mental Hospital", hvilket jo er en direkte løgn).
WebAvisen tilbyder, at læserne kan kommentere artiklerne, så jeg påpegede fejlene og tilføjede ikke overraskende, at jeg ikke håbede, at de aflønnede deres korrekturlæser med andet end et par bananer, haha.
Well, hos WebAvisen har man altså tilsyneladende hverken HUMOR eller FAGLIG STOLTHED, for ikke alene er mit indlæg nu pist borte, men man har sågar ladet de grelle fejl få lov at stå (man kunne måske spekulere i, at et indlæg kun ville få lov til at stå i en enkelt dag og det var derfor, at det nu er væk og ikke pga. censur, men her skal lige tilføjes, at andre indlæg fra dagene før har fået lov at stå urørte hen).
En af de fordele, som net-udgivelser har fremfor det trykte medie, er ellers, at man netop kan gå ind og rette fejl og mangler med det samme uden at skulle vente på et dyrt genoptryk eller lade dem stå til evig tid.
Oh well, hos WebAvisen vil man tilsyneladende heller, at de ansatte fremstår som journalister med diplom fra Zoologisk Have fremfor Journalisthøjskolen, end man vil tage kritikken til sig og få fejlene rettet. Og at avisen samtidig kommer til at fremstå som en bedre Sovjet-avis med en finger evigt plantet oven på censur-knappen gør tilsyneladende heller ikke noget. Hvor sørgeligt.
WebAvisens dødsannonce over Lux Interior kan læses her.
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