Stay Chick!

Okay so I'm vain! There. I said it. Sometimes I check out how many readers I have - or rather it's not really that I give a toss about how many readers I've got but it's FUN to see where in the world those readers LIVE (for instance I get way more hits from Sweden than Denmark!).


I mean I think it's totally RAD that I have two readers in Indonesia!! And I get readers in places that I have to look up on a map to find out where is! Altho sometimes I'm a bit worried about the tiny group of readers who appear to live in UN-REGISTRED countries! Countries without names!!! Anyway, I'm rambling (way too much coffee and I just entered into my 35th awaken hour).

So, anyway, I go to Google Analytics to check out where my visitors came from today and discover that I've had about four times as many hits as I normally would, and I'm going what the fuuck. So I check out EL LOCO SITUATION and discover massive traffic from the SPIFFY Bikini Machines site. Now, Bikini Machines is a nice site to gawk at as all they do is spend their days finding cool photos to post. Beautiful posters, scans, babes, magazine covers, video covers, whatever covers, etc. And sure enough today they've posted one of my video scans (including a link) from yesterday so there's your explanation. Anyhoo, so I check some of the other scans and discover... THIS:


...the fantastic, the amazing, the babatious... THE TRASHWOMEN!!! (the name is of course a take on their male counterparts; the legendary The Trashmen who were around in the 60s)

If you've checked out my "publishing house" blog (haha) from time to time obviously you know I've had a bootleg live video of the THE TRASHWOMEN embedded in there forever cos, well, THE TRASHWOMAN are pretty AWESOME! (and yes I've got all their LP's, all three of them).

So I follow the link from Bikini Machines and get directed to STAY CHICK blog!! What it is it's cool chick garage bands, cool chicks at gigs, garage bands that aren't so chick'y but still look multo cool. I grew up on (partly) punk-rock but I must admit these dudes and dudettes dress better!! :-) :-) :-)
Fan-fucken-tastic! Haha, you gotta check it out! I'd say the blog is both cool and chic! In fact: muy chic'o mas!! Forget the language just check it out and stay chick!

Hey Eric, I bet you're happy you're not stuck on a bus in a Filipino jungle hell on your birthday, aye!!

Many happy returns to Eric Tsang who turned 56 a couple of days ago (on the 14th). No matter how choppier he looks now and no matter how many silly movies he's been in - when I think of Eric it's always the overlooked nasty masterpiece FATAL VACATION I think of!

If you like trashy Filipino war flicks but haven't watched FATAL VACATION then I suggest you get hold of it. 200% entertainment guaranteed!
It's available on DVD from Dddhouse for the ridiculous price of 40 Hong Kong dollars (5 dollars US!!).

(I got this news bit from the HKMDb blog)

Cool DVD cover art? Yeah, right. My arse!

I still have to see DVD cover art for horror movies that looks as fucking fantastic as these video releases!!! Unfortunately, I don't own any of these Danish video tapes but fortunately Diabolik (of Cinehound forum) has tracked them down, so congrats to him and thanks for letting me post them.

A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL (aka Una Vela Para el Diablo). Directed by Eugenio Martín


EXORCISM (aka Exorcismo). Dir: Juan Bosch


THE POSSESSED (aka La Endemoniada). Dir: Amando de Ossorio


THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED. Dir: Lee Madden


THE AFTERMATH (aka Zombie Aftermath). Dir: Steve Barkett


NIGHT OF THE STRANGLER. Dir: Joy N. Houck Jr.

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How to fly a kite and kill a guy (at the same time)

VHS/Japan/fullscreen/audio???/Japanese subs
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Here's a pictorial rendition of the beginning of Gam Ming's very cool film IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN (Taiwan, 1983). It stars Elsa Yeung as a female hit-man and the first 10 minutes are among thee best first 10 minutes of any HK film! (yeah yeah I know I'm exaggerating and literally speaking it's not a HK flick so sue me! LOL).













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Thanks to ed209vscain for posting the Japanese VHS cover on Cinehound!

My new friend Nataliya. In Russia. Who would like $700. But it's alright cos she says she's gonna pay it back.

Hello friend,
My name is Nataliya and I am writing you this letter from Russia.
I would be very happy if you could reply my letter.
It's really brief!
Write to my email: [deleted]@rambler.ru



I received this e-mail today from a potential new friend, possibly gf. She was so considerate as to enclose a very nice photo of herself. I though: "Finally! The love of my life has finally turned up. Now I can get married, have kids, and enjoy the good life". Haha, yeah right. I'm sure some sad people (guys) are gonna fall for this but obviously it REEKS of scam a mile away. In the words of Mike Muir (of Suicidal Tendencies) from some old interview on Danish television: "I may be ugly but I ain't stoopid".

I did a Google and 31 pages of posts came up; posts from people who had received similar nice & friendly e-mails from "Nataliya". Of course it may not even be the chick in the photos (there were tons of other photos of her on that site for scam e-mails) but some ex-boyfriend who's using old photos. How do these people even get your address?? Anyway, after a couple of emails she would tell the whoever gullible sap she was writing to that she hates living in Russia and if he could lend her 700 dollars for a ticket out. Sad and terrible. And hilarious, haha.

A ray of hope in the dying world of CUT-UP POETS

You thought CUT UP poetry died with whatshisface??!! Well think again. here's KENNETH M and his CUT-UP masterpiece!!! If you don't understand what it's all about then... SORRY BRO!! Oh, and Patrick. Sorry mate but I couldn't help it!!! :-) :-) ;-)


Yesterday I was cruising.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

My interest was awakened.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

I almost had a stroke.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

This started a journey that would make a new man!
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

My beard grew a little thicker.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

My voice got deeper
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

Oh yes. It's true.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

I went and grabbed a beer.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

This is overload for my brain.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

After 5 more beers down the hatch.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

I couldn't believe it!
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

It was ... it was... unbelievable.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

I'll leave the last word to Jack J.
The Danish laughed at me. Which wasn't very nice.

Mini-Skirt Gang chicks

Here's a cool picture of Birte Tove and the cast from MINI-SKIRT GANG . It was originally printed in Southern Screen, may 1974.

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If you haven't already, do check out my posts from last week about the release of MINI-SKIRT GANG. And if you have too much time on your hands you might also wanna check out a slightly different version of those posts that are now posted over at HK And Cult Film News here.

Thanks to teako170 for posting the scan at KungFuCinema forum.

Turkish Rambo - interview

I'm sure you already know that Cinehound member Gokay and two of his mates are running the Turkish Sinematik blog which deals with the fantastic genres, or as we say in Turkish the fantastik türk sinemasi. Well, guess what, Gokay has just posted an interview with Ed Glaser the guy behind DarkMaze who's releasing TURKISH RAMBO (aka Rampage/Korkusuz) on DVD in the US soon. Good on ya, Gokay! Check it out in English here or in Turkish here.

Rani Mera Naam is finally coming home

Regular readers (!!!) will have noticed the red masked chick who has graced the right bar on this page for the past week or so. What was it all about? Who is she?? And... why??? Well, I can finally unweil the mystery (haha, yeah big mystery, you've probably been rolling in your sleep because you didn't know, right? LOL).

Almost two years ago Miltos of Cinehound forum posted a short description of a Hindi film entitled RANI MERA NAAM which led to Jared of Worldweird blog to review the film, and his description of it was, whoah!! Here's something you gotta get hold of I thought to myself so immediately I... waited two years... and then rushed out and bought a copy! Haha.

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Well, there are so many films on my want-list and time flies by so quickly (lemme tall ya mate once you get past that big THREE OH time just rushes past you like there's no tomorrow. It's fucking scary!!!). Also, this isn't exactly a VHS that pops up every week on eBay and unfortunately it's never been granted a DVD release. Or maybe it has?

DVDs in India come out by the bucket-load every day and disappear almost as quickly as they arrived. It's insane! And makes it almost impossible to get a good overview of what's actually released and what's not.

Anyway, enough ramblings. I won an ex-rental VHS of RANI MERA NAAM last night (incidentally the very same Greek release that Miltos posted about... and the eBay seller happened to be mr. Cinehound hisself, haha) and I can't wait for it to find its way to this forsaken hell-hole up north. :-) :-) :-)

Here's Miltos colourful description of the film:

Hindi violent "woman's revenge for rape" action thriller directed by K.S.R. Doss in 1982! Starring Vijayalalita, Anwar Hussain, Madanpuri, Ajit, Iftekar, Natarajan !!

They murdered her family, burned their house and raped her sister in front of her eyes. Now they must pay, so she rides a horse and kills them one by one by several brutal bloody ways using a whip, a sword, a gun and a huge knife. Wild action, a lot of blood and pure violence, bizarre ceremonies, a lot of exotic songs & dances and even some fantasy elements, make this one a pure Hindi gem !!

And I urge you to check out Jared's cool review at Worldweird. It's right here.

The first MINI-SKIRT GANG screen grabs!!

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Thanks to Mads Jensen I can now present to you the very first screen grabs from MINI-SKIRT GANG. By the way, I have previously referred to the film as THE MINI-SKIRT GANG but the title card clearly doesn't have "the" in the title.



Nils Markvardsen (of eXtase magazine) tells me he has written the Danish booklet for SEXY GIRLS OF DENMARK while Mads took care of the remaining two, BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS and MINI-SKIRT GANG. The three DVD's will probably hit the Dutch (LOL) streets of Denmark in a couple of months!





If you read one of the Scandinavian lingos you might wanna check out this Birte Tove interview that a Danish newspaper did with her shortly after Nils spoke to her for eXtase. Click here.