The healing power of Danish. Now, pass me that Wienerbrød!

I discovered this video yesterday and thought here was one more weirdo American (the USA being such a vast country means there's a LOT of them over there already. lmfao. Fortunately it's mostly the other ones I'm in touch with. lol) - but it turns out the video is fake. It's still very funny though. And interestingly enough, I'm apparently more of a journalist than the reporters at Danish national radio, Danmarks Radio, who covered the story believing it to be real. Suckers!!

But granted, she has done her homework to make it look real, she even has a blog and a facebook page. Go here. But leaving videos on her YouTube channel in Perfect Danish (and having her bio on IMDb) kinda ruins it. LOL

Random collection shots

EXTRAS: big Greek subs

Recently, I mentioned the upcoming dvd of THUNDER OF GIGANTIC SERPENT (aka Terror Serpent) from ATTACKAFANT ENTERTAINMENT and also mentioned that I was going to order a bootleg off eBay since the official dvd might still take a while to get released. I've finally received the dvd and as I expected the disc is a bootleg off a vhs and... yes, it's off a Greek video tape. LMAO. The picture quality looks like a second generation vhs dupe. I wish I could have got a dvd from that guy from Global in South Africa (as his dvd is probably off a real film print) but, oh well, at least I get to watch the film. I'm still looking forward to the official dvd, of course. It's bound to look better than this.

Murder by Decree - NL video cover

Thanks to Cinehound member KindOfB who posted the Dutch video cover for MURDER BY DECREE on Facebook on response to yesterday's post. Pretty cool cover I'd say!

MURDER BY DECREE (1979) - by Bob Clark, USA

It's been 6-7 yrs since I last watched MURDER BY DECREE (1979), a film in which Sherlock Holmes meets none other than Jack the Ripper! DECREE is directed by Bob Clark who made a bunch of cool horror movies (DEAD OF NIGHT, CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, BLACK CHRISTMAS - and he also made PORKY'S but that's an entirely different story. LOL). The film has a good atmos and is pretty good. Not a masterpiece by anbody's standards but worth the rewatch (every 7 years, lol).

The version I watched is the Aussie fullscreen ex-rental VHS.

PS: FINAL EXAM is from one of the trailers on the tape.

TRAILER:




PS.PS: Big thank yous fly out to Henrik Larsen who gave me the tape a long time ago.

VINEGAR SYNDROME to issue director's cut of mysterious CIRIO H. SANTIAGO film!

The info I have on this is more insufficient than insufficient but... it's just been posted on AVManiacs film forum that the new video label VINEGAR SYNDROME will be releasing *a* CIRIO H. SANTIAGO film and the version they have is a long director's cut version.

No hint at which film it is. Could this be the unrated version of NAKED VENGEANCE???


This is the exact text from AVManiacs:

VINEGAR SYNDROME's Drive-In Collection!

Was wondering when Jack J would make the scene ;-)

Feast your eyes on this...

"We have a few [Cirio films], including an ultra, ultra long version of one of his less seen epics [. . .] we'll be issuing it in its original director's cut and under its original title!"

New cool stuff from CODE RED

Check this rad shit out!! The new release from CODE RED is here and it's a cool Spanish horror double bill; THE VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY and DR. JEKYLL VS. THE WEREWOLF both by Leon Klimovsky. And if that wasn't enough... I'm told that they are the UNCLOTHED versions!!! The versions that came out from the folks at Mondo Macabro a few years back were the clothed versions!! This is great news. JEKYLL is taken from a 16mm print and carries the English dub (if I remember correctly the MM dvd is in Spanish with subs) and NIGHT ORGY is from a 35mm print (I don't know what the old dvd is as I only have an old vhs). The dvd is up for grabs at the Code Red store now.

Trailer for ORGY (I couldn't find one for JEKYLL):

VIRGIN APOCALYPSE to be released on dvd - fully uncut from 35mm print

aka Angels with Golden Guns / Terror in a Woman's Prison / Anger

Back in 2009 (almost to the date!) well known HK film aficionado Spannick mentioned on Cinehound forum that the German label he's working for, CINECLUB, was planning a DVD release of the rare VIRGIN APOCALYPSE. Now, 4 years later, it seems it's finally on its way! Yay! Spiffy!!

Spannick's info from today says the upcoming DVD is from a 35mm print and the film is presented in 2.35 anamorphic!! That's very good news indeed. It's well known that Joseph Lai's IFD company can't provide proper prints for most of their films. In fact, according to Spannick the print for VIRGIN APOCALYPSE was, "the IFD Master delivered was in Fullscreen and horribly framecut".

And Spannick adds the IFD master was also 4 (four!) minutes shorter than the uncut print. Although not quite as butchered as IFD's fullscreen master the 35mm is missing about a minute's worth of footage. On the DVD the missing footage has been replaced by a few inserts from a German VHS (also presented in widescreen). Fortunately there's no need to worry about English friendliness! The DVD will contain both a German and an English dub!

In the extras department we find the English language trailer and an entire extra movie: COMMANDO FURY! This film is included (in the extras) as it's sourced from a Japanese video tape (2.35 widescreen). Spannick's label wanted to release the film on its own but the master from Joseph Lai was "unwatchable Fullscreen".

This is certainly great news! VIRGIN APOCALYPSE is very difficult to find. The cover scan here is from the UK label 4-BIDDEN ASIA who released it in Holland (most likely cos they weren't allowed to release it uncut in the UK due to harsh censorshit regulations there at the time) many years ago. I don't know how many different VHS releases that exist but they are indeed all very rare.

The web isn't exactly spilling over with reviews. The one I did manage to find says about the plot: "Sound's pretty simple right? Well, it took me two sober viewings to figure this thing out."

No final release date has been published yet.

SHOUT! FACTORY to cancel last three Filipino movies

Unfortunately, SHOUT! have just announced via their Facebook page that they're not going to release the last three Filipino co-productions that we've been patiently waiting for; SAVAGE, THE HOT BOX and THE WOMAN HUNT are not going to be release! Boo-hoo!!! I've been looking forward to those for what seems like ages (because it is actually ages!!).

All three films are released on VHS but it would have been pretty spiffy to get proper releases off the original negatives and in their original ratio aspect. Hopefully another company will pick them up and give them the same fine treatment that SHOUT! gave the other films. And maybe monkeys will fly out my butt. :(


THE TEN THAT MADE IT
Throughout the last couple of years SHOUT! Factory have released a whole range of ROGER CORMAN produced films in their "Roger Corman's Cult Classics" series. A few of those are of interest to this blog as they were filmed in the Philippines and have a number of regular Filipino actors in them.

So far SHOUT! have released...

THE BIG BIRD CAGE
BIG DOLL HOUSE
WOMEN IN CAGES
FLY ME
FIRECRACKER
TNT JACKSON
TOO HOT TO HANDLE
COVER GIRL MODELS
UP FROM THE DEPTHS
DEMON OF PARADISE.

Ten movies in total! And all of them in great shape and form (well, okay maybe except FLY ME which came off an old worn print but it was either that or no print at all so that's perfectly alright).

As a fan of these films I can't thank SHOUT! enough for finally give them their day in the sun. No longer do we have to settle for fullscreen reg. 1 public domain dvd's or old worn video tapes. So a big round of applause fly out to Cliff Mac and SHOUT for releasing these 10 films. I wish the last three could have been released as well but big kudos to SHOUT for the ones we did get. xD

 THE WOMAN HUNT on vhs from Denmark


If you wish to check the old posts about SHOUT!'s releases just click the "Shout factory releases" label at the bottom of this post.

Fond memories of double bills

The very first time I saw HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, and at the same time also the very first time I saw THE STEPFATHER, was on a double bill in around 1990 at the old (long gone) Scala Cinema Club in London. It was in the afternoon and the cinema was almost empty. The first film was HENRY which just blew me away. How do you follow HENRY? You can't. And although I love THE STEPFATHER it was a let down on that particular afternoon. I should add that I came to love it when I rented it on VHS later on after I went to live in this Danish shithole that I'm still trapped in (please somebody, help me escape!! haha). After THE STEPFATHER finished I just stayed in my seat and watched HENRY again. It stayed with me and I dreamt about it several nights afterwards. That hasn't happened at any other stage in my adult life. I own several copies of both films on VHS and DVD now.


HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER trailer



THE STEPFATHER trailer