The Fog / Phantasm trailer

Check out this rare TV trailer for a double program of THE FOG and THE PHANTASM! The trailer is from circa 1980.

Japanese lesson for today

Sorry, that last Yakuza film trailer I posted was entirely in Japanese so here's a crash course in Japanese with the lovely miss HM:

Yakuza's Law - trailer

This is how ALL trailers should look!!!

TNT JACKSON finally getting a proper dvd release!

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Brilliant news!! The last couple of days I've been asking around to see if there's a proper DVD release of Cirio H. Santiago's TNT JACKSON from 1974 available anywhere. The film is a Filipino/American co-production with Roger Corman's company, and it stars renowned Oxford trained character actress Jeannie Bell in the lead (alright-alright, her training was from being a Playboy Playmate but that's even better, lol).

Santiago liked the film so much that he later remade it not once but twice (as Firecracker aka Naked Fist in 1981, and Angelfist in '92)! There are about (at least) 10 different DVD releases of the film in the US but they're all public domain releases and they certainly look like public domain. They look like ass. My old Danish ex-rental VHS looks heaps better. The cover on this page is from the sell-thru release but they're almost identical.

Anyway, the news from today is that Cliff Mac and his cool Shout label are putting TNT JACKSON out next year on DVD with another Cirio H. Santiago film called SAVAGE!!! Great news or what! I have no idea if there's any DVD releases of SAVAGE but I wouldn't be surprised if there's only similar multo crappy public shit domain releases. Obviously, I have the film on Danish ex-rental VHS, haha (thanks heaps to Diabolik/Hans-Jørgen!).

I couldn't find a trailer on YouTube so here's a bit from the film. You don't need to watch it all just check a couple of minutes. The entire film is on YouTube's film upload channel but it's the same crappy DVD version that probably would make any grindhouse proud. Awful picture, awful sound, jumpy print at reel ends, the lot. Wait for the new DVD or get a copy of (or off) a video tape.

Jeannie Bell was also in Santiago's THE MUTHERS and a few more film and TV things like "Ironside" and ""Kolchak: The Night Stalker". I have no idea what she's up to these days.

O_O o_O O_O O_O

*leans back. caresses shotgun affectionately. awaits angry people at front door. and the hate-mail*

LMAO.

If I were in a poor man's version of Ministry I'd do a cover of this. Oh yeah. xD.

Dyland Dog - trailer

This trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the comic book series DYLAND DOG came up and disappeared again from everywhere on the web. So here it is again. ;-)

Clash on a Saturday

Yesbangkok1 (in the YT comments section):

I had to laugh at the people who wanted this at No 1 for St Georges Day. Have they listened to the lyrics? This song sums up how shit this country is. Travel the world and have your eyes opened.

Best ever pop song anybody could ever play on a Friday. Don't piss me off. I mean it!!! On any Friday!!! Ever!!!!!

I've been called Lucifer, I've been called Satan but my name is Richard. And YOU can call me Dick.

Death of a Snowman - dvd

Arrrgh! Don May and his Synapse label are going to release the South African movie DEATH OF A SNOWMAN in November. They call it a "South African exploitation classic", haha. Oh man, I've had this film lying around on a Danish ex-rental tape for at least 7 or 8 years WITHOUT watching it because I thought it looked totally boring, haha. I think I checked the first 5 minutes and then chucked it back into the pile where it's been ever since. Hahaha. Maybe it's time to give it a proper chance. :D

"Quite simply, this is the best 80's action film to be made in the past twenty years"

This is one of the trailers for RAMBO 4 (aka Rambo aka John Rambo) which I must admit I totally love! Fred Adelman said about it in his review on Critical Condition:

While I generally don't review recent theatrical releases, I'm going to make an exception here because I feel this is an important, nay, essential, viewing experience for fans of action cinema. Quite simply, this is the best 80's action film to be made in the past twenty years and director/co-scripter/star Sylvester Stallone has single-handedly restored my faith in American action cinema. It's not perfect, mind you, but it is the most rousing, bloody, audience-pleasing action flick that I have seen in theaters in many years.

- and I fully agree.

RAMBO 4 is so over-the-top violent and gung-ho crazy that it's a splatter movie fan's wet dream. And a trashy war flick fan's wet dream too. And I happen to love both splatter flicks and trashy war flicks!!! xD

Check the trailer and watch the movie!