Pulp International

On Monday I suggested you check out the web-page/blog PULP INTERNATIONAL and I want to stress how much fun this blog is. Check out three of today's pulp covers (from Italy). Wauw!! Totally rad!! And there's more of the same. You gotta go there! (I can't link to the post so if you read this sometime in the future you gotta go to the "Shocking Blue" post from today's date).





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The other woman...

...alright maybe not quite but the other BLOG! I finally did a proper update on the Filipino war movie blog with some crazed Aussie guy's long rant with some Dutch guy. LOL. Oh, and Eric Hahn is now a follower of that blog as well. How cool is that. Eric has a blog of his own as well now. It seems every Westerner who was ever in a Filipino war flick has his own blog now. Well, ya ain't gonna hear any complaints coming from this here hack writer! He doesn't have very many blog entries yet but check out his post about the DELTA FORCE 2 helicopter crash. Mind-blowing reading. Go here. Oh, and one of his other posts is about living his Mexico. Gee man, it sounds most of all like BEING ON THE SET OF A FILIPINO WAR MOVIE!!

Kind of blue

Photo of Miles Davis, after being beaten and arrested by New York City police outside the club Birdland, fifty years ago today.

I got the above picture + text (from today) from this very cool blog on everything PULP. And incidentally the blog is located in ... the Philippines! :D You should check it out, lots of cool pulp'y pix.

Bergman's lost production

Had Ingmar Bergman ever made a film in Japan it would've looked like this. I'm sure.

Equalizer 2000 (1986)

Friend and follower of this blog Burt Spoor was interviewed by Andrew Leavold yesterday on Facebook and I posted a bit of that interview on my Filipino war movie blog yesterday. One of the films Burt talked about was Cirio Santiago's MAD MAX 2 clone EQUALIZER 2000 (aka Defender 2000) so I thought I might as well pull this one out of the pile-to-watch pile and give it a spin. :D

What can I say other than it was good fun! And everyone was in it: Richard Norton, Don Gordon, Eric Hahn, Henry Strzalkofski, Nick Nicholson, Vic Diaz, and Bert Spoor. Some of the storyline doesn't make sense at all but you sort of expect that don't you, haha.

My VHS is a Danish tape from Juno Media and I'm certain it's uncut. Fred Adelman reviewed the US tape from MGM/UA Home Video on Critical Condition but that version only runs 77 minutes. Fred mentions that the uncut tape runs another 8 minutes so I'm confident the Danish tape is uncut as it clocks in around the 84 min mark. Also, the two scenes that Fred refers to as being cut out of the R rated tape are both in the Danish version. Unfortunately, this isn't released on DVD.

I might as well repeat Burt's bit about Equalizer 2000, altho he didn't remember that much from it, LOL.

Bert Spoor:
I cannot remember much of the Equalizer, I did the routines and died again several times. A lot of background action, being blown away and fly the sky. There was a small incident however I won't forget. There was a little tree left in the frame, and this little tree was suppose to break at gunfire. At action the little blast made some noise and ... Read moresmoke, but the tree was still there. At take two, just about action, this sucker all of a sudden falls down, very slowly. It's quiet on the set then everybody starts laughing when Cirio was cursing: Putanginamo. Third take the tree was set back to possision, I think this one worked...

One thing I'd like to know tho; Who was the chick that Norton hooks up with? Was she in other Filipino flicks? And what was Richard Norton really like? In most of his films he plays the bad guy but here he's the hero. Maybe he got to play the hero cos he has that broad Aussie accent like Mel in the MAD MAX films, xD.

EDIT: I looked up the film on IMDb and the chick who plays the hero's love interest is Corinne Alphen and the data base says she now works as a certified professional Tarot card reader, haha.

Read Fred Adelman's cool review here.

MORE EDIT: I found the trailer on YouTube. Yay!

TV docu from early 80s on HC punk in L.A.

Ahh, the good ol'e days. Watch this a lean about a past not long ago and yet in a completely different society. Oh, and I was there man!

Oh ILSA!!!

The original 3 VHS releases of the ILSA films in Denmark!

ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS


ILSA, HAREM KEEPER OF THE OIL SHEIKS


ILSA, THE TIGRESS OF SIBERIA


Notice when these films originally ran in the Danish cinemas and came out on VHS the title character was called "Ilse" because that's the correct Danish and German spelling. This "Ilsa" is an American respelling. Unfortunately, when the Danish video company put out these films on DVD a few years back they didn't bother to use the Danish title. Many Danes don't give two fucks for tradition. :/


Covers not surprisingly courtesy of Mr 'Bolik.

Captain Berlin Vs. Hitler - trailer

Patrick posted this but I gotta post this as well!! This looks too awesome not to post!!!!! Jörg Buttgereits new movie. :D

Cool DVD cover art? Yeah, right. My arse!

More from Diabolik's amazing collection of rare Danish ex-rental tapes.

DADDY'S DEADLY DARLING


JEG SÅ JESUS DØ aka DET BLODIGE KORS


MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND


I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE aka DAY OF THE WOMAN


THE DRILLER KILLER

(You can click all the covers for bigger size)

Thanks to Diabolik.

Do you need "Frankenstein's Castle Of Freaks" in your collection? Now here's your chance

There's an auction for it on eBay UK, check it out here.

And yep, they still use Pound Sterling in the UK, that's not Yen or Pesetas. :-O

There's even three days to go.