- reviewed somewhere else...

I just did a quick review of Tonino Valerii's Italian genre movie LA SPORCA INSEGNA DEL CORAGGIO. You'll find it here (and yes, post date is way old but the review is brand new!). I've been running the Filipino Vietnam War movie site, WHEN THE VIETNAM WAR RAGED... IN THE PHILIPPINES, for 18 months and I haven't done one single review, haha. Well, until now that is (and obviously I kick off in grand style by reviewing an Italian film that wasn't even filmed in the Philippines or even has any Filipino actors in it, arrhahaha. Yes, ridiculous!). xD xD xD

End of the line

I finished a four week course today instigated by the local jobcentre ("How to apply for a job when you're an unemployed punk") and what better way to celebrate than with Tom Waits' "How's it gonna end" from his "Real Gone" LP.

More rare Asian stuff on vhs: DRIVING FORCE

VHS/Greece/fullscreen/English dub/Greek subs

At the same auction where I won KILLER ANGELS I also won the Greek VHS release of this rare Filipino film DRIVING FORCE from 1989. Yay! Spiffy!!

I was the only bidder. Suckers!!! (^_-)

Howz life in my digital toilet?

Lately, I've experienced a new (to me anyway) kind of spam; People who sign up to follow this blog but who don't give two shits about the blog or the contents. What they hope for is that you and I will click their shitty avatar and go check out their "blogs" which aren't real blogs at all but whatever crappy shite they try and shove in our faces. xD.

Well, getting more subscribers is nice and all but not just any subscribers. These people might as well save their energy and not bother cos I'm deleting their sorry asses as quickly as I can. They're going down the crapper right away. Hahaha.

Killer Angels - finally coming home

I've just won the awesome... the amazing... the uber entertaining... shoot 'em up... gun them down... and then shoot 'em again... "GIRLS WITH GUNS" epic KILLER ANGELS (1989) which stars Moon Lee. It's completely on level with ANGEL 1 & 2 (aka Iron Angels 1 & 2) and a much better sequel to that series than ANGEL 3. I've had the unsubbed VCD for years and years and have watched it many times cos the storyline is cartoon-like, you don't really need to understand the dialogue. A couple of years back I got an English dubbed bootleg DVD of the film but now, at last, I've secured an original VHS of the English dubbed print. Yay! I've lost this release before when it went for big bucks but tonight I was the only bidder! Awesome!!

PS: don't get confused by the "Greek" title, Ultra Force (which incidentally is the alternative title for ROYAL WARRIORS in Germany and Denmark!) this is indeed KILLER ANGELS.

The old HK VCD (in Cantonese/Mandarin, no subs)

Ellery Queen Mysteries - complete series finally on DVD

I've just discovered that the complete Ellery Queen Mysteries series has recently been been released as a 6 disc DVD box set! The box contains all 22 episodes plus the pilot "Too Many Suspects".

I used to watch this as a kid in the mid 70s but have never had a chance for a re-visit so this is pretty cool. I have no idea if the show holds water or if I'll still like it but I'm definitely gonna order it.

Someone on Amazon.com wrote an informative review, you can check it here.

Fear Itself (Masters of Horror, season 3)

My bank account is in the red and with last night's purchase it's gonna be even more in the red, argh!!

The kinda third season of the US TV show Masters of Horror, retitled Fear Itself, has just been released on local DVD. Søren over at Skræk og rædsel blog has mentioned it a couple of times and since I quite enjoyed season 1 I thought I'd check out how much this new set retails for (and no, I still haven't got season 2 which for some reason wasn't released here. I'll get the reg. 1 set eventually). In a few months you can probably scoop it up for DKK 70-100 but right now it's around 300 Danish pesetas ($56). A bit much for my in-the-red budget so I checked Amazon and lo and behold they had THIS spiffy edition...



...for a mere 24 dollars! So needless to say that's the one I ordered! :D

I mean how cool is that; Get a skeleton shaped cover or a boring Danish one?? Yeah big difficult choice!! (like NOT). Both releases contain the complete series. The Danish e-stores I checked all mentioned it's "season 1" but none of them mentioned the link to the Masters of Horror series or that it's in reality season 3 (just produced for a different network). IMBECILES! I spit in your face!! (LMAO).

PS: click the skeleton cover twice for gigantic bone size! xD.

ZUMA - finally uncut & subtitled!!

[click cover for cool size]

Thanks to my French Canadian friend Matt over in Korea I now own a remastered, uncut, and subtitled print of the legendary Filipino horror movie ZUMA!! Yay!!! I've had a dvd-r dupe of ZUMA for quite some time but the film is in Tagalog and needless to say the Japanse VHS doesn't have English subs. ZUMA has never been released in an English friendly edition anywhere so it goes without saying that this is a custom made version. I don't download from torrent sites but I'm aware that a subtitled version of the Japanese VHS has been available for a while. However, firstly the Japanese VHS is missing no less than FIVE minutes and apparently the print wasn't all that good (and out of sync too). This new print has the missing scenes re-inserted (from a TV print), and Matt has remastered the print and re-synced the audio. Oh, and he also did the way cool cover you see in the above!! Cheers, Matt.
Matt also sent me a subtitled and uncut fan edit that he did of POSSESSED II and a properly letterboxed edition of the Indo flick HUNGRY SNAKE WOMAN (starring Suzzanna). More YAY!!!

Crazy Indonesia: "From fighting in the streets to fighting in the sheets"

Trailer for the Indonesian colonial war movie DAREDEVIL COMMANDOS (1985) starring Barry Prima, from Rapi Films.





The cover scans are both Danish. The cover text reads: "An exiting 5 star action movie from the inhumane war hell of the jungle", haha. Five star film!? o_O

VHS collectors unite!