Thursday, July 24, 2008

Kaptajn Amerika, patriotisme, og en uheldig mangel på sprogkonsekvens

Fandens osse!!! Jeg ka' sgu ikke finde ud af, om den her skide blog ska' være på dasnk eller hva'. Dansk. Sidder der nogen ovre i Minnesota og febrilsk logger ind hver 50. minut for at se, om en mand med en pose over hovedet har udgydt noget nyt for pøblen igen eller hva'? Jeg ved det ikke, hva' rager det osse mig. Hey Nicolai, jeg ved, du sidder derude og febrilsk etc. og vi PM'ede jo om superheltefilm tidligere (så kan Uncut da om end ikke andet bruges til dét, når nu ikke der er nogen, der gider komme med indlæg) og check den her, jeg købte her til aften. Well, i nat (man er vel natteravn! Og jeg bemærker, at en anden natteravn også sidder derude i mørket og rent faktisk er kommet med et indlæg på Uncut; Hi Dennis! Hæh!). Anyway, her er den:



Der var en eller anden stakkel, der sad derude og troede, han skulle ha' den... det sku' han så bare ikke, LOL.
CAPTAIN AMERICA!! Yeps. Jeg har nu egentligt altid syntes, Kaptajn Amerika, som han ikke overraskende hedder på dansk, er lidt for, well, amerikansk (læs: patriotisk). Alt det her med flaget og "the american way" osv., men filmen er ganske underholdende. Jeg kan meget godt li' de der billige næsten TV-agtige produktioner, hvor der virkelig skal lige dele fantasi til fra henholdsvis filmmagernes side, for at få det til at se nogenlunde ud, og fra seerenes side for at tro bare en lille smule på det fjolleri, der foregår oppe på skærmen, haha. Det er 15 år siden, jeg sidst har set CAPTAIN AMERICA, men specialeffekterne løfter sig vist ikke meget over Batman TV-serie-niveau. Jeg har også fornyligt fået FANTASTIC FOUR, ikke den nye store blockbuster, mind you, men Roger Cormans aldrigt udsendte film fra '97. Jeg har endnu ikke set den (so many films, so little time), men de fem minutter, jeg checkede, ser lovende ud. Hva' det så er de lover om er jo lige det. Hæh.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Queruak!!!

Back in '84 my cousin Ronny rented QUERUAK (aka Hands of Steel) on Betamax video and made copies for the both of us. I still have that betamax copy somewhere. I even cut out a picture of the video cover from a newspaper and glued on the box. Ahh, such happy moments, haha. I must have watched that film... well many times. A couple of years ago I got hold of the original locally released video tape (on vhs though!) but now... NOW... as of today... I'm also the happy happy owner of the Japanese vhs release which you can see here:

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So why a new vhs you ask; well, unfortunately QUERUAK hasn't been granted a proper dvd release yet and obviously I wanted to watch it in the best possible way; hence the Japanese vhs! It's letterboxed, folks! And video tapes from the land of the rising sun mostly have a supiour picture quality to all other video releases. That's why! As I hinted at, the film is out on dvd but in one of those dvd packs from Brentwood and I'm certain it's one of those fullscreen versions with vhs picture quality - and often that doesn't refer to Japanese vhs quality!
Hmm, I know, I know, you're wondering: "that's fine and all but why write a blog entry about a bloody video purchase!" Well, my friend, cos it's my blog, that's why! LOL x 10.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

DR SATAN Y LA MAGIA NEGRA (1968)

[short review from Cinehound]



aka Dr. Satan Versus Black Magic
dir: Rogelio A. González
Ay, caramba! I watched this on bootleg dvd last night and what a swell horror movie this is!! It's the second film in a short run Dr Satan series (it only ran two films) and unfortunately I haven't got the first one.
The plot: The devil, El Diablo, or whoever, pays a visit to Dr Satan who is an evil dude and tells him he has to go to Earth to deal with another evil dude who's working on a formula to turn ordinary metal into silver. Or gold. To take over the world. Or something along those lines. My Spanish isn't as good as it never was anyway :lol: Now I wish I'd paid more attention in class all those yrs ago. :(
Oh, and the second evil dude is also a vampire by the way. And there's some of those niiice women you always see in old Mexican movies. In this one they've been turned into mindless zombies by the evil vampire guy (zombies but pretty ones, not rotting, LOL).
Anyway, very enjoyable even without subtitles. As far as I know it was never put out on dvd but the boot looks fine. It's off a Spanish lingo vhs.
- And there's the fakest vampire bat I ever saw!!

OBS: IMDB has an entry for the film and there's a US video box title listed!! Does any of you know of this release? I assume it would have been dubbed in English. Does any of you have it???

[the review at Cinehound is here]

Friday, July 11, 2008

Habla Espanyol... Doktor Satan?



Hmm, jeg bemærkede, at min kommentar til et blogindlæg på Sørens Skræk & Rædsel i går rent faktisk var længere end Sørens indlæg. Hmm, mon den slags virker skræmmende på blogskribenter?
Og så fik jeg lige en håndfuld godter i posten: Min "Fantastik Türk Sinemasi"-bog nåede endelig frem (faktisk gik det ret hurtigt, den har bare ligget nede på posthuset en uges tid, før jeg fik tid til at hente den. Og jo, jeg er stadig arbejdsløs, tak for at spørge, haha). Jeg fatter naturligvis ikke et ord af teksten, men bogen er fantastisk. Holdda kæft, hvor den spilder over med fantastiske og coole lobbycards, posters, og billeder fra tyrkiske film (i de fantastiske genrer)!! Masser af Kilink og 3 Dev Adam-agtige film, Cüneyt Arkin-en masse, Tarkan, osv. osv.!! Næsten 500 sider. Miltos fra Cinehound fortalte mig, at Bill fra Onar har talt om at få den oversat til Engelsk og udgivet. Jeg krydser krampagtigt fingrene for det! Og så fik jeg også DR SATAN Y LA MAGIA NEGRA ["Dr Satan og den sorte magi"] og EL PLANETA DE LAS MUJERES INVASORAS ["Invasions-kvindernes planet", en titel der grangiveligt lyder bedre på spansk!] på bootleg fra USA. Jeg var nødt til at købe filmene, for nu havde jeg jo allerede købt de her viste lobbycards, haha. Nu kan jeg sparke mig selv i hovedet for ikke at ha' fulgt bedre med i spansk-timerne!



Nå ja, og så fik jeg da også lige den nye tyske halv-bootleg dvd-udgave af Argentos FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, som jeg ellers havde forsvoret aldrig at købe, fordi jeg ikke brød mig om filmen, da jeg så den for 15 år siden, men Nils Markvardsen fortalte mig for nyligt, at den vinder meget ved at blive set i et ordentligt format (end den GRIMME pan & scan fullscreen-version, der var den eneste udgave, der florerede dengang tilbage i det gamle århundrede). Den nye dvd er nu godt nok ikke den bedste version af en film, jeg nogensinde har set, det ville være synd at sige. De genindsatte scener er hentet fra et videobånd; et SLØRET videobånd, der ser ud som en femtegenerationskopi! Og en af trailerne i ekstramaterialet er også fra et videobånd... med slidtage-stribe foroven og det hele... og efter et øjeblik SÆTTER BÅNDET SIG FAST... og bliver siddende en rum tid for derefter at fortsætte og hakke i det!!! Men okay, det er trods alt alligevel en bedre udgave end de tidligere. Synd for tyskerne, der gerne vil høre det tyske dub i øvrigt; lyden er RIGTIG fæl!! Kassetten er dog den typiske flotte type, som jeg kun har set fra Tyskland (lidt i stil med en "snyde-bog", der er hul indvendigt). Hvis man ikke passer på, kan man iø nemt komme til at bestille den fra eButikker, der tager pænt over 200 kr. for den. Jeg fik den via tysk Amazon til ca. 170 kr. inkl. porto.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

life is a pain

Renowned philosopher Homer Simpson said it best: "It's funny because it's true"

Yeah, it's still 1998 around here!

Hey, I bought this:


- the PIONEER CLD-D 925!!! Yes, paesano, the last and best laserdisc player Pioneer ever put out! Or something. It's still located down south but hopefully the delivery people won't sit on it/throw it/break it/whatever.

Now I just need one of those Betamax players they use to sell in the Middle East. X

Saturday, June 28, 2008

L'OSSESSA



I watched Mario Gariazzo's Italian THE EXORCIST rip-off L'OSSESSA tonight. It was even made the same year (1974) as the original and contained some of the scenes we've become accustomed to by now; the possessed girl writhing on her bed, spewing green goo, and being just generally blasphemous and swearing. I must admit she was a major letdown to the film; I mean instead of Linda Blair we get a twenty year old Italian girl with black hair and a perfect body. She ruined every frame she was in! (picture Homer Simpson, head lump-sided, drooling, and going "arrrrrr"). No, actually the only real letdown was the atrociously bad print from Alpha Video (in the States). Fullscreen, a master so obviously taken from a bad video master, and with colours so faint they looked as thought the print were recorded using a cheap two headed vcr! Anyway, none of that ruins the film which was enjoyable. Not quite in the same league as the film it rips off but pretty cool never the less.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

The devil within

The very first extreme horror movie I ever watched was THE EXORCIST back in '84 when it was shown here on television. I'd just got my first vcr back then and obviously had to tape the film. I'm sure you'll find it entertaining to hear that I never actually watched my tape. I simply found the Satanic stuff too scary and eventually erased it without one single viewing! Yes, much has changed. Yesterday I mentioned watching LEGACY OF SATAN and while going thru my last couple of weeks' purchases it occured to me I've incidentally bought a bunch of horror films and related lobby cards that deal with the subject; First up is my new Italian double disc release of LISA AND THE DEVIL / HOUSE OF EXORCISM and a HOUSE OF EXORCISM lobby card from Mexico:


- And then we have my new dvd + very cool Mexican lobby card of L'OSSESSA (aka The Sexorcist/The Tormented):


- And believe it or not but today I got BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL on dvd!! Maybe I should start to listen to heavy metal music again. Hmm, where did I put my Iron Maiden records?

Legacy of Satan


I watched LEGACY OF SATAN last night and I'm gonna watch it again tonight. Yes, it's THAT enjoyable. It's trash, it's horror, it's... strange, odd, and weird. Three words that basically mean the same - and it's that weird! It's almost hypnotic. It draws you in! It sucks you in and you can't get out. Oh, and the music (and I use the term loosely) is...
However, why would I write a review of it when Joseph A. Ziemba already did a really good one here: Legacy of Satan.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Fantastic Turkish Cinema

Ahh, the long back-order wait is over and I'm finally getting this:

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Fantastik Türk Sineması; the bible on Turkish films in the "fantastic" genres! And no I'm not getting it from Turkey but the US. 31 bucks + postage from www.tulumba.com