Afilli Delikanli (Turkey, 1976)

Amazing! I won Yilmaz Atadeniz' AFILLI DELIKANLI tonight on eBay! Yay! Spiffy! And I was the only bidder too! (maybe cos it's a Betamax but still!).

Yilmaz Atadeniz is the Turkish director who also did THE DEATHLESS DEVIL (aka Yilmayan seytan and on DVD from Mondo Macabro), SPY SMASHER (aka Casus Kiran, on DVD from Onar), KILING ISTANBUL'DA (also from Onar), and many more (Atadeniz is the guy in MM's docu who says "I wish we hadn't used a robot in DEATHLESS DEVIL that was so obviously a man in a robot suit", haha).

The Big Boss - original, rejected dub - part 2

The Big Boss - original, rejected dub

Usually I really have no interest in English dubs of old kung fu movies but all this talk about a rejected and basically lost dub of Bruce Lee's BIG BOSS is intriguing I must admit!


"Thoughout Ameria and Asia"???

Bruce is a many splendoured thing - part 2

Here's a couple screen grabs (or rather page grabs) from the upcoming Bruce Lee clone book! I just ordered and paid my copy tonight. Yay!

PS: And that's the actual finger of the author! LOL.





[click the scans twice to see them in full size]

Including postage to Europe it came to just under £24.

Savage Streets from AWE in June!

I've just noticed AWE are going to release the restored version of SAVAGE STREETS in June! The reg. 1 DVD from BCI (aka the old Brentwood label) came and went and has been OOP for quite a while now. On Amazon new copies are around 110 dollars at the moment!!! Great news indeed!!! And FOR ONCE it seems AWE are actually giving us a bit of extra stuff: I did a 7 sec. comparison and I believe all the extras from the reg. 1 disc are included!

Bill Barounis is back

[L-R] Bill Barounis & Tom "Shootgringoshoot" (Athens, 2010)

From what Bill is stating on his blog today he's not completely well, and the last two weeks have been very tough, but he's getting better. So glad to hear that! You can check Bill's blog post here.

The guy on the right grinning like an undertaker is Dutch/Swiss Cinehound member Tom aka "Shootgringoshoot" who went to hook up with Bill when Tom and his gf were on holiday in Greece earlier this year.

Awesome and truly fantastic old post revisited

More here.

THE GAME OF DEATH (Philippines, 1974) on ultra limited DVD

aka GAMES OF DEATH (South Africa)



Jun Gallardo's RARE Filipino kung fu film THE GAME OF DEATH from 1974 (starring Ramon Zamora, "Philippines' Bruce Lee") has never been released to home-cinema before so it's pretty exciting that Global in South Africa are putting it out on DVD soon! And if you're into Filipino films I suggest you order a copy right away, the print run is ridiculously low. 82 copies to be exact!!! And yes, among Global's received orders are orders from people with such names as J. Jensen and A. Leavold. LOL.



At the same time as releasing THE GAME OF DEATH Global are also going to release MARTIAL MATES and SUPERGIRL OF KUNG FU. However, in contraction to THE GAME OF DEATH those two sound terrible dubbing wise (if you ask me anyway) as they're dubbed into typical old-skool kung fu film English (the global guy has posted clips on YouTube from those two as well). I'm not sure if GAME was actually shot in English but it certainly sounds much more natural.

By the way, this GAME OF DEATH is not to be confused with the Bruce Lee film of the same title, obviously. The Filipino film was actually made a full 4 yrs before the Robert Clouse film.

THE HUNTED (Philippines, 1970)

Yes, yes, I know, don't tell me; that's SCREEN GRAB OVERKILL!! But it's just that Cesar J. Amigo's THE HUNTED from the Philippines, 1970, is sooo extremely rare that I thought it was justified! So kill me.

Just a word on the picture quality; If you think the screen grabs look slightly blurry you got that right! It's just my (our) luck that the only release of this film is a crappy Greek VHS! Not that all Greek video tapes are crappy, of course, but this one sure is! The picture looks like it's overmodulated like in the old days when you'd attempt to make a vhs-to-vhs dupe and the frequencies were too close. Actually, it's so bad I thought someone had switched the original tape with a dupe but that's not the case. Not that it would make much of a difference cos I may never find another copy anyway. Maybe it's possible to make a dvdr copy and remove the distorted image but if it is I have no idea of how to. I grew up in the jungle. Among apes.
Anyway, having watched my way thru many a pan & scan-un-dubbed-un-subbed-pixelating-taped off a VHS Malay video-cd I can say with confidence it's not that bad sitting thru this film. Okay, so it's fairly bad but the film makes up for it!

(plot run down & shit still to come)

Upcoming Mondo Macabro: Jesus Franco's SINNER

So far only two alternative covers. No release date.
Thanks to Worldweird's Jared who posted them on Dvdmaniacs. Apparently, the "covered up" version will be the one that goes out on store shelves. Hopefully we're talking a two sided cover here. xD.