Fellow blogs that FLY UNDER THE RADAR but that you OUGHT to know about!!! ... "SINETRACTS"

A few years back I received an email from this guy called Dag in Malmø, Sweden. He collected Turkish cult movies and he'd heard about how I'd published an issue of my zine STAY SICK! in which I'd reviewed a bunch of Turkish movies. He asked if I wanted to swap mags; He didn't actually have a fanzine ready but he was in the process of making one and as soon as he had it ready he'd send me a copy. I remember I also got an email from Linus, another fan of world-weird movies back then, and he said he'd written stuff for this new upcoming mag.

Well, if I had a dime for every time someone has told me they were gonna publish a fanzine and it never actually came out... then I would have a lot of dimes, haha. In other words, Dag never got his shit together to publish his Turkish movie fanzine nor did I ever hear from him again. Then years later I discovered that Lars Jacobsson had started running a blog on peplum movies (I posted about it here) and I discovered he had ONE link to another blog and much to my surprise that blog was indeed by the very same Dag and it deals exclusively with Turkish pop cinema!! Gee, Dag, how about telling me about it?? I mean, after all YOU OWE ME AN ISSUE OF YOUR NEVER PUBLISHED MAGAZINE!!! Hahahaha. Oh well, no worries, mate, I won't hold it against you, LMAO (if I did I wouldn't be advertising your blog, argh!).

Anyway, seriously, as a fan of world-weird pop cinema you need to check out Dag's blog. There are no reviews, no articles, no YouTube clips, no nothing! All it is is cover scans galore and credits for heaps of Turkish films!! It's pretty cool and very useful I'd say! Go here: SINETRACTS.



For all the entries in this series go here.

Crashing...

...in front of the telly. Yesterday, I watched KARA MURAT VS THE BLACK KNIGHT on German VHS. Cuneyt Arkin plays Kara Murat (or "Karamurat" in the international versions) and in this one we get twice as much of him as he also plays his own evil twin brother. Lots of action and violence. I found a Turkish TV print online but discovered that the TV print is actually cut (an arm chopping scene is missing in full).


This gory scene is actually from KARAMURAT: THE SULTAN'S WARRIOR but who cares, LOL.


Next up was THE DEVIL BAT, starring Bela Lugosi. Lugosi plays a disgruntled employee who plans to kill off his boss and the boss' family. In order to do so Lugosi creates a gigantic killer bat that he lets out of the window at night to follow his dastardly commands. I watched THE DEVIL BAT on a UK DVD. There was a bit of pixelation as it's a 3-films-on-1 DVD but it wasn't too bad.


Bela Lugosi being sinister in THE DEVIL BAT.

The last film I watched was KILLING BIRDS which is out on reg. 1 DVD as Zombie 5: Killing Birds. It's a daft re-title though as it's not really a zombie film (altho we do see a couple of zombies). KILLING BIRDS is directed by Joe D'amato and some other guy, I forget his name. It clocks in after approx 90 minutes which of course is normal running time but they could easily have cut out 15 minutes and it would've made it a much better film. As it is there are long boring scenes that just keep going forever, or so it feels. The actors were forgettable but there were some cool gore scenes so that was good. Overall, KILLING BIRDS was the least entertaining of the three films while KARA MURAT VS THE BLACK KNIGHT the most entertaining. DEVIL BAT is a enjoyable psychotronic flick that won't scare anybody nowadays (I'm not sure it ever did) but it was cool to watch and Bela Lugoso, altho playing the bad guy, totally steals the show.


Trailer for KILLING BIRDS


Scenes from the Italian language version. Unfortunately, the US reg. 1 DVD only carries the English audio track.

How to fly a kite and kill a guy (at the same time) *update*

I added a very cool Japanese cover scan to my IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN post. Go here.

Trolljegeren / The Troll Hunter - trailer

Check out this cool (English subbed) trailer for the new Norwegian horror movie TROLLJEGEREN aka The Troll Hunter. Looks pretty cool! xD

Ultra rare Filipino movie on Greek VHS

GET MY SON DEAD OR ALIVE
[click scan for full size]

Bill Barounis (of Onar Films) posted this scan on Cinehound yesterday!!! As I'm sure you realise Bill knows the ins and outs of Greek VHS releases and according to him this tape is the ONLY copy he's ever found! And as if that wasn't enough, he also states this tape is the ONLY tape this video label ever released!! How awesome. Bill, please send me this tape!!! xD


GET MY SON DEAD OR ALIVE
(Bukang Liwayway Films)

[Philippines release date 27th May 1982]

Director Jose “Pepe” Marcos Story Felix E. Dalay Screenplay Jerry Tirazona Producer Precy Mendiola Talavera Executive Producer Jerry Paz Talavera Cinematography Rey de Leon Music Gabby Castellano Editor Gervacio Santos Art Director Rolly Sto. Domingo Production Manager Celso Paz Talavera Assistant Director Dante Javier Sound Effects Editor Rodel Capule Sound Engineer Robert Tejada Color Consultant Rafael Uy Publicity and Promotions Mar F. Cornes, Rod Samson

Cast Rudy Fernandez, Eddie Garcia, Vic Vargas, Perla Bautista, Marilou Bendigo, Phillip Gamboa, Nick Aladdin, Jing Caparas, Joseph de Cordova, Renato Del Prado, Paquito Diaz, Ernie Forte, Baldo Marro, Jose Romulo, Jun Santos, Larry Silva, Vilma Vitug (Vilma) [Greek VHS cover also lists “Rechard Folk” and Joan Beck]

Scpace. Zee final fronteer.

I used to watch this as a kid growing up in the old DDR (i.e. Eastern Germany). We didn't have much else but canned food (sauerkraut and wienerschnitzel) and Russian polka music but we had one thing: We got TV rays from the free West thru the wall and we could watch Die Phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion. It made all the difference. It was truly wunderbar!

Alright-alright, I discovered Raumpatrouille Orion via the German satellite TV channel Sat1 in the early 90s and I've got the complete German box set release that came out a few years back. Unfortunately, it's not English friendly (but this clip is [albeit wobbly]).

Danish newspaper admats

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Cannibal Holocaust

Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS

"Her atrocities were so severe that even the SS feared her"

[click any of the admats for a bigger size]

Thanks to Kent for posting these on Uncut's forum.

R.I.P. Tony :-(

"Dannnieel" as only Brett Sinclair could say it. When we talked about The Persuaders my mum would always do an impersonation of Roger Moore's character on the show. And now he's gone. Daniel that is, or rather his alter ego, Tony Curtis. He was 85.

I still vividly remember that night in 1970 when I got out of bed, went into the lounge-room and found my dad and my uncle in front of the TV as the very first episode of The Persuaders (or De Uheldige Helte as it's known here) was about to begin. As a kid I wanted to be "the persuaders" when I grew up. Or rather, I wanted to be Danny! And now he's gone. RIP Tony. :-(



PS: Watch the into + end credits here. Unfortunately, I can't embed that video here.

ENDGAME coming to German DVD - uncut mind you!

Yes, it's true!!! I've just been informed that Joe D'Amato's legendary, violent post-apocalypse flick ENDGAME (aka Endgame: Bronx Lotta Finale) is finally going to be released on legit DVD in Germany. I have no info on the label nor whether it'll be a splice job (using old, missing gore scenes from VHS releases) as we've seen before with some of these films. I hope not but it any case it's brilliant news. Obviously I already own the uncut Danish VHS but still. xD xD xD

Screen grabs from the new DVD:

Karamurat: The Sultan's Warrior (Turkey, 1973)

Ahh, check this German VHS out! It's the Turkish Cüneyt Arkin movie KARA MURAT: FATIHIN FERMANI from 1973, known in English as Karamurat: The Sultan's Warrior. Thanks to Henrik Larsen I already own Mondo Macabro's UK TV print (in Turkish w/English subs) but when I stumbled over this tape on German eBay I knew I had to have it! Now, if just I could find the German dubbed print of KARA MURAT KARA SOVALYE'YE KARSI aka Karamurat Vs. The Black Knight (not released in English) then I'd be happy!! EDIT: My info on the film on this tape is wrong in the above post!!! I got my info from the German film data base OFDb (kinda the German answer to the IMDb) but their info on the English title is incorrect!!! DER HEILIGE KRIEG isn't aka The Sultan's Warrior (Kara Murat: Fatihin fermani) as they state but it's actually KARA MURAT KARA SOVALYE'YE KARSI (aka Kara Murat vs the Black Knight). And since I already have the English dubbed TV print for SULTAN'S WARRIOR I'm not complaining. This is pretty cool.