Deja View: Turkish Star Trek

Here's a home video that's actually really good (no shaky camera, no naked legs, no trash on the floor!)!! It's done by Ed Glaser and if you're into world-weird movies I'm sure you remember Ed. He's the guy behind DarkMaze who released TURKISH RAMBO aka Rampage aka Korkusuz on reg. 1 DVD a couple of years back. Ed's a big fan of world-weird knock-offs of American films (aren't we all!) and here's his video about the Turkish version of the original STAR TREK telly series. Good fun!!!

King of the tube

Another crappy video. I'm beginning to think of myself as the Andreas Schnaas of YouTube videos, haha.

PS: and no need to mention it: Yes, I fucked up in reg. to the Gynther Meyer moniker!!! >_<

Oh Siouxsie!

I'm told crooked ex-Soviet Union scientists are working on a time-machine and trust me as soon as they get the bloody thing into production I'll be first in line to buy a single ticket set for 1977-85. I'll pay for the full rotation so that every time I reach New Years Eve 1986 I'll automatically get hurled back to 1977!!!

This is "Metal Postcard" by Siouxsie & The Banshees performed live in 1977. The track is originally from their début album "The Scream". The Banshees also recorded it for John Peel and it was later released on a Peel Session 12" EP which I bought when it initially came out. Siouxsie Sioux' voice is one of the very best in all of contemporary music if you ask me!

Awesome TAPES from the land of the rising sun finally on their way home

Not too shabby! Not at all, actually!! Tonight I won the Japanese VHS releases of IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN and THE EVIL DEAD! Bloody fantastic!! If you've been with me for a while you'll remember I won the Greek ex-rental release of IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN a couple of years back but I've wanted this one for quite a while. I already have a nice dvd-r of the Japanese tape so I knew how brilliant the picture quality is. Totally uber superior to the Greek tape; Colours much better! However, the Greek tape does have the advantage of original Mandarin audio with English subtitles. The Japanese tape is dubbed into English. But still!! (as they say in old kung fu films) And of course the cover is a beaut!!!



Next up is an little known indie horror movie called EVIL DEATH - hmm, or is it EVIL DEAD? Hahaha. Yeah, well, the days of it being only familiar territory to the most ardent hardcore splatter fans are long gone, and needless to say I've already got a handful of different versions of the film already but even so I still needed this rare Japanese tape. xD



MISSION TERMINATE! I bought this one last night. It's a Filipino Vietnam war flick and one of the few films in which Richard Norton actually gets to play the good guy. That guy must have played bad guys more than most other bad guy actors, haha. I already have the Greek tape but, well, you know, you should always do the utmost effort to obtain the Japanese VHS of any film which doesn't exist on DVD!



And lastly one that I sadly DIDN'T get: Dario Piana's TOO BEAUTIFUL TO DIE (1988). The film is a sequel to NOTHING UNDERNEATH (aka Modelmordene) which has one of the very few Danes in it who got to act in giallo films: former supermodel Renée. We're so proud of her (as if! If you wanna read about it on Wiki you'll have to check the English language page; the Danish page totally omits her film "career"). As far as I know, TOO BEAUTIFUL TO DIE isn't on DVD anywhere and the Japanese tape is one of the few releases. There's also a Dutch tape (ZDD has a boot off it) but it's fullscreen. This tape is lbx. Unfortunately some other schmuck won it. :/

Home video from a desolate farm house???

My sincere apology to everyone for my videos being so crappy! I look at Paul "Bookaroo Blood Bullets" videos and scratch my head! How the fuck does he do it?? And the same goes for Simon Explosive Action! So calm, so informative, so well filmed. The mind boggles (mine does anyway). o_O

Oh, and the battery ran out!!

I really can't think of a headline so just read the damn thing!

Fred Anderson sent me a link to this religious comic as he thought the resemblance (of the uncanny bald guy) to me was striking. LOL. Uncannily striking I'd say, haha. Most of you have never met me obviously but check the avatar on the right for a comparison. LMAO. I copied the comic from this page.

Dark leather, dark shades, coloured plastic trash... and Nico

ANDY WARHOL'S FACTORY PEOPLE
I watched this cool three part documentary on Andy Warhol and the people who orbited around him during the Factory period in the '60s. It's a pretty good documentary. There's also a 100 minute (director's cut) cinema edit which I haven't seen but I would assume it loses too much of the interviews and stuff (the TV version runs around 150 minutes). At the moment the same TV channel (DR K/Denmark) is showing another three parter; this one about Woodstock and it's weird to think these two extremely different kinds of attitudes/people/music existed around the same time. Some of the hippie music like Jimi Hendrix is cool but I'm definitely more of a Velvet Underground person. LOL. I dvdr'ed the sehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifries from telly which was a good thing cos the scheduled reg. 1 2-disc release was cancelled (but there's an Aussie DVD available on Amazon US & UK). The director's cut had a limited cinema release and is also on DVD but (apparently) only available directly from the producer. You can order it here and there's a shit load of info and interviews on that page as well.

NB: I looked up shades (i.e. sunglasses) on Wiki and who else but the pope of trash would pop up. LOL.

Frogs (USA, 1972)

I re-watched George McCowan's FROGS from 1972 tonight. I've only watched it once before, on television (sometime in the '90s). Tonight, I enjoyed my new rare Danish ex-rental VHS (I've been after that tape for almost 10 years so thanks to Henrik Larsen for finally letting go of his copy!).

I remember the TV print being way too dark but the VHS looked pretty good. There's also an MGM DVD and interestingly enough FROGS was included in MGM's "Midnite Movies" series but ONLY on video! Their DVD version is an ordinary release outside the series. Weird (and yes I own the DVD too).

Ray Milland is in the movie and he's always good. There are some good death scenes and the actors are all good. A few reviewers usually complain about the film taking way too long to really kick off and that it has too much dialogue. I guess a lot of people prefer the characters in horror movies to equal the depth of characters in the funny pages. Build-up and getting to know characters doesn't actually hurt a movie in my book. Actually not at all.

Flænset re-released on DVD in July

It seems there's a chance the old Danish splatter movie FLÆNSET (aka Shredded, 2000) is going to get a DVD re-release in July. At least it's listed on the Danish video store Laserdisken's webpage. I've never been able to find the original DVD version (and for some reason I just never got around to picking up the VHS when it was available!). The movie is directed Heini Grünbaum and it totally bombed when it came out originally and the director was never allowed to make another movie! However, it goes without saying that ordinary (lame!) film goers don't appreciate gory flicks and word is this is actually pretty good. Needless to say, I'm crossing my fingers this release is gonna happen. For a long interview with the director (in English) go here.

Thanks to Magnus for the tip.

Lame!

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