Two minutes

- or twe minuten as we say in Dutch, haha I'm so funny, ohh my head hruts. Lissen i'm sorry mates, friends, foes , enemies, whathaveyou, but i'm sick and have been bedwritten for a couple days and this is my only two minutes online and on my computer in the last few days and it'll probly gonna be the only two min. in days to come too. My heAAD HURTS and my eyes water, did i meniton my head hurts and i feel dizzy. i you're someone who expects an answer or reply to something you'll have to wait, i'øm terribly sorry. if your someone who awaits stuff form me just be paitent.. patient and you'll get your stuff. i haven't enen looked at my inbox and am not going to go so. sorry. didd i mention mhy head hurts and im sick. pu-ha!! Satan og helvede! happy newyaer, im not even sure if it's been or not. what year is this anyway. Alright that's it im off again. in th words of patick whatshisface form that series whatwasitcalled "be seeing you".

NB and on top of thsis the fucking blogger gives me owewoiroiew problems!!!!!! but it seem to finally ahve posted thsi now!!!

Triad Story (1990) - trailer

Gee, I just discovered this one.
Another one for the definitely-gonna-get-that-one! list. xD

Oh Anthony

- and ohh Lily!!
Lily Chung that is! Queen of the Category 3 films. If I could marry a celeb I'd marry Lily (circa early 90s).

Rare ZOË TAMERLIS interview (1997)

A rare interview with Zoë Tamerlis (aka Zoe Lund) was uploaded to YouTube recently. I'm sure I don't need to tell you Zoë Tamerlis played the lead character in Abel Ferrara's MS .45 and was in BAD LIEUTENANT which she also wrote. Thanks to Derek Steckler for posting about it on Dvdmaniacs.







The interview was made by Ed Grant for a New York cable access TV show called Media Funhouse. He also wrote a piece about the interview which was posted on the station's blog. I'm being sneaky and posting it all here. I hope he doesn't mind. Nor that the TV station does. Nor that their lawyers do. Oh, and by the way, if you read Ed Grant's bio you'll see a lot of periodicals that he's written for. However, his biggest claim to fame (at least on this here site) is, NEEDLESS TO SAY, that he used to write for Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Video. :D

First posted on Media Funhouse' blog.

Angel of Vengeance, Casualty of Obsession: Zoe Tamerlis

The strangest celebrities sometimes show up at genre fan cons. Such was the case when Zoe Tamerlis, aka Zoe Tamerlaine, aka Zoe Lund, showed up at the Chiller Theatre convention back in 1997. Tamerlis will forever be best known as the star of Abel Ferrara’s kinetic and disturbing action-vengeance pic Ms. 45 (1980), which is a fusion of Death Wish and Taxi Driver. She was also a very sad drug casualty, as she died at 37, after what is referred to on several websites as “extended cocaine use, which replaced her prolonged heroin use.” She was an uncommonly beautiful model-actress who made only six features, and scripted one of Abel Ferrara’s finest works, Bad Lieutenant (1992).

When I spoke to her, she was 35 and extremely nervous. Some of this no doubt came from having to sit at a very busy convention trying to hawk rather bleary photographs of herself (she agreed to do the interview in exchange for me buying one — which I planned on doing anyway). She brought up the subject of drugs herself in the context of speaking about Keitel’s “nod” scene in Bad Lieutenant, and I must admit I was too shy to actually probe the issue, as her hands were rather shaky and had bruises on them, she was feverishly chain-smoking, and was wearing a dark mesh top that was see-through, which I didn’t realize until the interview had already begun.

She leaves behind indelible film images in the films of Ferrara (who himself has seemingly left narrative linearity behind in recent years), as well as Larry Cohen’s Special Effects. She did speak about her heroin use in a documentary about the supermodel Gia, which can be seen here. More about her life can be found here and at a very thorough site created by her husband Robert Lund at www.zoelund.com

MS .45 trailer:




PS: The reg. 1 US dvd is cut. The French dvd is fully uncut and has English audio. It's available from Amazon.fr under the title "L'ange de la vengeance".

NB: Yes, this post is partly a reprint as I want more people to know about this rare interview and nobody reads old blog posts anyway.

Deep Blood (1989)

[I think this is a cardboard cover version]

[this is the ordinary keep case version I received. The other cover looks cooler though!]


I watched Joe D'Amato's JAWS ripoff DEEP BLOOD (original title: Sangue Negli Abissi, Czech title: Bestie Z Hlubin) yesterday and I must say it's not the world's goriest nor most scary shark movie, haha. However, it was alright. If you want lots of shark attack scenes then, well then you'll get mighty disappointed as there's a lot of stuff going on land but less (much less) happening on the sea. Someone mentioned that the film almost has a plot! (in some grotesque Bizarro World version of the Batman 1960s TV show an enthusiastic narrator utters frantically WHAT IS THIS?? ... A PLOT?? IN AN ITALIAN JAWS RIPOFF??? CAN IT REALLY BE?????? Haha.

The DVD I watched is from the Czech Republic and apparently it's the only DVD relase there is. It's fullscreen but even so the picture looks alright. The DVD is released by the Ritka Video label which also was the first company to put out Bruno Mattei's last two zombie movies, ZOMBIE ISLAND & ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING, anywhere in the world! They've also put out Franco E. Prosperi's WILD BEASTS, unfortunately only with Czech and French dubbing. Recently I was lucky and got hold of the English dubbed NTSC tape in good condition. I got the Czech DVDs from this store (they don't take PayPal, only banktransfer).

Unfortunately I couldn't find a trailer for DEEP BLOOD on YouTube so instead here's the trailer for Bruno Mattei's CRUEL JAWS which uses scenes stolen from DEEP BLOOD anyway, LOL (and from The Last Shark, Jaws, and Jaws 2!!!).

"Men trur jeg kan med handen på hjerte si at det er den groveste filmen fra skandinavia i historien"

Med hagla i handa og hora i panna!
Awesome! This is a new Norwegian splatter movie entitled HORA [whore] which is being released on DVD from Another World Entertainment in February of next year. I have no idea whether the movie is any good or not (feel free to send me a review copy, boys! xD) but the Scandinavian output of gore flicks is so small (read: non-existent) that just the fact that someone decides to make something like this makes it worthwhile.

According to AWE's website the film won the main prize at some film festival in Holland called But earlier this year. Also according to their website this is going to be a Norway only release (!!) I wrote to AWE and asked them about a possible release in Denmark or if fans would be able to order the Norwegian DVD from AWE or Absurd-online (kinda AWE shop) but now three weeks later I still haven't received an answer.

Anyhoo, in a thread on the Norwegian horror movie message board Skrekkfilm.com the director of HORA, Reinert Kiil uttered the line quoted in the headline that basically says he believes the film to be the nastiest film in Scandinavian film history. Let's wait and see if it can live up to that but it certainly sounds good!


Here's a teaser trailer:




I'd also just like to say hello to my latest follower; Raquel Crusoé from Brazil. Miss Crusoé is a famous pianist and I had a look at her blog and, eh, I have no idea what interest she would have in my crappy blog about messed up pop-culture. I thought of the possibility that someone else might have added her profile but I believe you can only do that yourself. Oh well, welcome Raquel in any case.

Santa Claus (1959)

More psychotronic Christmas movies. This is René Cardona's SANTA CLAUS from Mexico in which Santa fights the Devil! Cardona also directed a whole bunch of El Santo and Blue Demon movies, and also LA MUJER MURCIÉLAGO aka The Batwoman which I've mentioned here before. AWE really ought to have released this one this year instead of just re-releasing SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS! Oh well, maybe next year (it's available on reg. 1 DVD though). xD

Awesome.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

So what are you gonna watch for Christmas? Me, I may just pull out that ol'e psychotronic favourite SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS! xD




This is truly one of the most frightening scenes ever committed to celluloid!

Xmas

Xmas Horror - Funny video clips are a click away

It's almost Christmas! We don't celebrate it here as Christmas is banned in Denmark (we don't even have December but 60 days of November, I'm not kidding!) but even so, merry Xmas to all you cretins out there where ever you may be. Even those of you in Norway. xD