Hausu (1977)

Woo-hoo! The very cool Japanese horror movie HAUSU (aka House) is finally being released on English friendly DVD! And it even comes out on both UK And US dvd; in the UK on January the 25th and from Criterion at some stage in 2010. I've already got two prints of this film (a TV print from American TV and a fan subbed version of the Japanese DVD) and this is just great news. HAUSU is actually a kids' movie but the fact that it was made for kids just adds to the surreal weirdness of it all. Don't worry, this isn't for little kiddies and it's especially not made the way they would've made it for kids in the West. It's gory, wild, strange, and then some more wild. Check out the trailer (which is the old Japanese one but with subtitles) and the "killer lamp" clip. I urge you to get it. If you like worldweird stuff you're gonna love this.






The UK dvd:

■New digital anamorphic widescreen transfer
■Japanese with optional English subtitles
■An extensive 90-minute selection of interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, co-screenwriter Chigumi Obayashi, actress Kumiko Oba and Toho promotional executive Shoho Tomiyama
■Theatrical trailer
■A luxurious booklet, with new writing, stills, promotional material and more.

The Skids are coming

Don't gimme that Green Day/U2 shite! This is how it's supposed to sound!! The original version by the Skids from Scotland.



From 1978, with Stuart Adamson who later went on to form Big Country.

Every single time I go to the cinema I wish I were Sick Girl

If you're a movie fan who go to the cinema once in a while I dare you to not wanna be Sick Girl in this video. I certainly do. xD.

Sick Girl "Thank You For Not Talking" PSA

Sick Girl | MySpace Video

And besides that; I watched SICK GIRL (the movie, not to be confused with the "Masters of Horror" episode, which by the way is also totally cool!) and loved it! There's a whole thread of naysayers over on Dvdmaniacs (actually the only poster who likes it is Don May, the president of Synapse Films who released the film on dvd, LOL). Anyway, I quite liked it and thought it was good fun. Oh, and there's a docu on the dvd about Leslie Andrews, the girl who plays the fucked up main character, and, uhh, she's kinda messed up herself; For leisure time fun she's been taking death photos of herself the last three years, haha. Some boring critics keep saying the actors aren't good and all but it's a low-budget indie film so obviously you're not gonna get Jack Nicholson to star in it. Personally I didn't have a problem with the actors at all. Good fun!!


PS: The video isn't from the film but (I guess) a spot made for cinemas to get people to shut the fuck up. Cell phones, babies, teenagers, dumb people, and anything that lights up should be banned from every cinema on Earth and people should be hanged for breaking it. Very annoying.

Come to daddy little froggy

If you read one of the Scandinavian lingos you really ought to check out Søren Jacobsen's Skræk & Rædsel blog as this week has been French week with nothing but froggy horror flicks. Pretty cool! Go here.

Kung Fu Zombie

Alright I may have lost out on MIRACULOUS FLOWER but I won this one; KUNG FU ZOMBIE on Ocean Shores tape. Woo-hoo. And Ian F tells me he thinks it's the longer print of the film! I sure hope he's right as I already have the short version on a UK dvd.

I so hate the internet right now!

Yeah I know. The headline is one that you'd be more likely to see on Patrick's "Bearded man" blog (and where the hell is Patrick??) but, man, I really so do hate the sack of shit that is the internet right now. Thing is I had been waiting for an auction for the über über rare Ocean Shores VHS release of MIRACULOUS FLOWER (aka WOLF DEVIL WOMAN 3) to end. And since I knew I would be there when the auction would close I'd only put $15 on the damn tape. Didn't wanna reveal how much I was willing to cough up. And then my internet connection went out to fucken lunch all night!!! Ahh man, for fuck's sake!!! And NOBODY made bids for the tape except one single asshole (probably a nice guy) who scooped it up for 15.50 dollars!!! Arrrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!!!
Oh well. Can't win 'em all I guess, haha. Well, congrats to the winner, whoever you are (and it's not like I don't have the über über rare Danish release of the film, LOL, but that cover there is just so much cooler than the lame one I've got!).

A boring night at the office.

I know, I know, you're gonna wanna hang out with me cos I'm now the owner of these two AWESOME and mega rare tapes but, sorry no can do, you're on your own buddy. Haha.


Here's the mega über rare ntsc vhs release of THE WARRIOR AND THE NINJA on the "All American" label!!!

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Ahhhh, finally coming home to daddy!!! The über mega overly rare release of THE RAPE AFTER on vhs from Hong Kong. In contradiction to the NOT SO RARE Japanese vhs this is subtitled in English. From someone unknown to Pete in Holland to Lars in Sweden and via Scott in Australia and, now, finally, on its way to yours truly!!! Now, gimme a WOO-WOO! xD xD xD

Friday the 13th

As you know Friday the 13th is a public holiday for horror movie fans and watching at least one horror movie on the day is COMPULSORY in celebrating the day. xD.
My film tonight was the amazing and very spooky Norwegian horror film DE DØDES TJERN (aka Lake of the Dead) from 1958. As regular readers will know (cos I've talked about it endlessly) it was released recently on a spiffy English subbed DVD. Read more here.



PS: Welcome to the latest subber, Lord_Garvals Khalikov.

Tough to Kill

Ahh, I received Paul Cooke and David Zuzelo's cool book "Tough To Kill" in the mail today. Excellent! More later.

I ordered the book from Paul and David's blog dedicated the book.
Go here.

Kabrastan (1988)

Not every horror movie from India is made by the Ramsay family (although it's a biiig family!) even if it may seem that way sometimes (to Westerners anyway). Here's one you might remember seeing the cover of if you've read Pete Tomb's "Mondo Macabro" book; KABRASTAN directed by Mohan Bhakri. I have this on an unsubbed (and so far un-watched) VCD. Check out this clip. It's without a doubt the best, awesomest and most horrifying horror movie every made. Okay, maybe not at all but it looks fun! LOL (altho Omar Khan, the director of HELL'S GROUND aka Zibahkhana wasn't terribly happy about it and said:

Kabrastan is unforgivably putrid and tedious crap of the worst kind and gives even the gutter level genre of Bollywood Horror a bad name!