Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Ahm, Bruno Mattei flick not so "unreleased" after all!


Damn, too quick again (that's what SHE said!). The Bruno Mattei film BODY AND SOUL which I described as being unreleased in my post from yesterday turns out to be not so "unreleased" after all, LOL. David Z (of the excellent Tomb It May Concern blog, author of the Filipino/Italo war/action movie book "Tough to Kill", and I believe alround Albert Pyun fan) sent me info (check the comments section to yesterday's post) on this Japanese DVD version from 2003. It's out on the King Records label and retitled DIRTYDOLL.
Cheers Dave.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Unreleased Bruno Mattei: BODY AND SOUL (1996)

Original title: Ljuba



Edit: I uploaded the video to YouTube but they removed the sound, so here it is again this time uploaded to Photobucket. xD.

RUNNING TIME: 94 min. circa
PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA S.R.L.
PRODUCED BY: GIANNI PAOLUCCI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA S.R.L.
PRODUCTION MANAGER: SILVIO COLECCHIA
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN/ENGLISH
FILM FORMAT: DIGITAL
SUBJECT: GIANNI PAOLUCCI
SCREENPLAY: BRUNO MATTEI
DIRECTOR: BRUNO MATTEI
MUSIC: FLIPPER
PHOTOGRAPHY: ELIO LAMARI
SCENOGRAPHY: ANGELA ALTERIO
COSTUME: ANGELA ALTERIO
EDITING: ELIO LAMARI
CAST: CHRISTINE DAWELL - ANTONIO ZEQUILA - FRANCESCO VALENTI

More unreleased Bruno Mattei: SECRETS OF WOMAN (2005)

Original title: Segreti di Donna



RUNNING TIME: 94 min.
PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA s.r.l.
PRODUCED BY: GIANNI PAOLUCCI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA s.r.l.
PRODUCTION MANAGER: SAMMY INTERNO
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN/ENGLISH
FILM FORMAT: DIGITAL
SUBJECT: ANTHONY TRENTON - BRUNO MATTEI
SCREENPLAY: ANTHONY TRENTON
DIRECTOR: PIERRE LE BLANC (aka Bruno Mattei)
MUSIC: FLIPPER
PHOTOGRAPHY: LUIGI CICCARESE
SCENOGRAPHY: RANDY GARNIER
COSTUME: CHOCHY NICDAO
EDITING: DANIELE CAMPELLI
CAST: KATHY NOVAK - YVETTE YZON - ROBERT DAVIS

Judging by the trailer this looks like a soft porn flick. As far as I'm aware it's unreleased on in any home-cinema format and it belongs to that handful of movies that Bruno Mattei shot late in his career in the Philippines. Interestingly enough, it has Yvette Yzon in the main role. She also played the lead in ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING, ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE JAIL. Actually, I have a feeling that all her film work was for Bruno. According to the crappy IMDb she hasn't made one single movie since Mattei's last movie, ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING.

Finally!! THE JAIL: IN A WOMAN'S HELL DVD is finally coming home!!!



Yes, my furry friends. I'm finally gonna get Bruno Mattei's THE JAIL! On DVD all the way from the Czech Republic!! xD!!! I ordered it from an online store over there and had to work my way thru the whole ordering hoopla with the ol'e trusted (or not so trusted, whatever) Google translator!! Including postage to Western Europe the price came to a whooping 13 Euros! Yay! Spiffy!!



Mattei on the set of his last zombie movies:

Yvette Yzon interview



I noticed there was no interview anywhere with the famale star of Bruno Mattei's last two zombie movies, ZOMBIES: THE BEGINNING and ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD + THE JAIL (which I haven't got yet, boo-hoo). So I got in contact with the film company and said "Hey, you gotta publish an interview" to which they said "sticka it uppa your assa, bastardo", but when I told them who I am they realised their mistake and said, "Scusi, madre de dios, we are most asha-me-de. Here iz interview". Alright, maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but I did upload the interview to YouTube, haha. Hmm, and when you watch it it becomes obvious she was dubbed in those movies.

Three new ones from Global


As you'll surely remember unless you have the memory of a dingbat last week I casually mentioned some upcoming kung fu DVD releases from Global in South Africa. And a couple of days ago titles and dates for the first three releases were announced by the label:

SUPERGIRL OF KUNG FU
MARTIAL MATES
GAMES OF DEATH (from the Philippines, starring Ramon Zamora)

The three films are going to hit the streets on May the 30th and they'll be printed in huge print runs of 50,000... I mean... 50 copies each!!! @_@

I have no idea as to why the low print runs but maybe they don't reckon they're gonna sell very well. Incidentally, almost all copies have already been sold out (and yes I have secured the Filipino flick!).

Monday, May 10, 2010

Is that a monkey wrench in your pants?

Here's another PG porn video. Check it out, iz fuunnie. LOL.

The GIRLS WITH GUNS genre

Most fans of 80s HK flicks have a soft spot for the Girls With Guns genre and, well, so do I. xD. I've been a fan of HK cinema for 20 yrs and one of the very first films I watched around 1991 was ANGEL. The film spawned both a handful of sequels and dozens of imitators. Unfortunately, a lot of them were very difficult and/or expensive to get hold of back then so needless to say there's quite a few I've never seen before. Well, until now that is! Now I'm actually tracking down many of these gems and enjoying them heaps. And I'm gonna start reviewing some of them from now on. I know, I know, don't tell me; in order to do this properly I ought to start off with the original ANGEL series but I just couldn't be arsed. It's been reviewed so many times already. Pakistani poster I wanna go straight to the knock-offs and tonight I watched the highly entertaining ANGEL ENFORCERS directed by Godfrey Ho. Unfortunately, it's never been released on DVD but I watched it in the best video version there is; the UK tape from M.I.A. I also own the laserdisc version of the same release but I haven't got my LD player hooked up so for now the ol'e VHS will have to do. It's both letterboxed and has good, proper subtitles. I'll watch it again and get a review done. Hmm, come to think of it, apart from last night's review of Obskuriøst #11 (on the Danish section of this blog) I haven't reviewed anything properly for years (almost). Gee. Anyhoo, I'll give the flick another spin tomorrow and get a review done. Until then, have a look at the English dubbed trailer (and thanks to Spannick for uploading it!). PS: And yes that is the music from HALLOWEEN! LOL.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Is it porn if there's no R 'N' R???



LMAO. This video is totally funny. Watch it, dude!