Scoop up them ex-rentals!

Henrik Larsen of Obskuriøst magazine is selling out of his collection of rare video tapes. Quite a few German peplum tapes (in German) and horror movies (in English) and then some. Go here. Write for info on prices (I can't see an email address but you can use the comments section).

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Last of the Zombies

Hey hey heey!! I finally got hold of the Japanese video release of Bruno Mattei & Lucio Fulci's big masterpiece ZOMBI 3 (Japanese title: SANGUELIA 2). Awesome!!! I've been on the lookout for that one for quite a while. So what this means is that I now have the video version of ZOMBI 3 on video and the DVD version of ZOMBI 3 on DVD - whereas most of you losers out there have to settle with Media Blasers' or Another World Entertainment's cut 'n' paste DVD version which basically means you've got the video version AND the DVD version all in one*. Video-on-DVD, hahaha.

Check the DVD cover here.



*i.e. the MB/AWE DVD is taken from a cut master which had the censored bits reinserted using a video tape as source for the censored bits.

DEVIL TIMES FIVE (1974)

I watched DEVIL TIMES FIVE tonight and, whoah, what a cool, bizarre and devilish wee horror flick this is! Five kids from a car crash turn up at a guest house in the middle of a snow engulfed nowhere. Guess what happens. No, actually, DON'T guess! Get the film! It's an awesome slice of obscure 1970s American horror. And there's quite a bit of cheesy gore too so I'm happy as happy can be. You should be happy too: Check out this fine but sadly often forgotten entry to the American 70s horror cinema.

I watched the film on an NTSC video tape. I received the tape yesterday and the eBay seller I bought it from stated the cover was "in good condition". Obviously we speak very different kinds of English as his definition of "good condition" left enough room for the cassette to be cut on ALL sides! Hell, the right side of the cassette was completely missing and so was the top! But hey, the tape itself had PERFECT playback ALL THE WAY THRU THE FILM!!! Wauw!!! How often does that happen with tapes from 1984!!!

DEVIL TIMES FIVE is also out on a widescreen reg. 1 DVD but the tape is open matte and it looks just fine! Anyhoo, no matter your format of preference just get it. You'll thank me for it later. xD

Pffft!!!

My friend, bloddrikkeren från Kyrkslättan, is just too funny for his own good! PFFFT to you, Member-X!!!

LMAO

Some of us... grew up... on this stuff... :D

Alyas Batman En Robin

While trying to find stuff for a reply to Matt Der of Belgium on Dvdmaniacs I stumbled over this trailer for the Filipino superhero film ALYAS BATMAN EN ROBIN. I've had the film on tape for well over five years (thanks Henrik) but I've never seen the trailer before. Check it out, it's good fun. I have no idea if there's a DVD or VCD release in the Philippines, this is obviously from an old video tape.

Hausu (1977)

Woo-hoo! The very cool Japanese horror movie HAUSU (aka House) is finally being released on English friendly DVD! And it even comes out on both UK And US dvd; in the UK on January the 25th and from Criterion at some stage in 2010. I've already got two prints of this film (a TV print from American TV and a fan subbed version of the Japanese DVD) and this is just great news. HAUSU is actually a kids' movie but the fact that it was made for kids just adds to the surreal weirdness of it all. Don't worry, this isn't for little kiddies and it's especially not made the way they would've made it for kids in the West. It's gory, wild, strange, and then some more wild. Check out the trailer (which is the old Japanese one but with subtitles) and the "killer lamp" clip. I urge you to get it. If you like worldweird stuff you're gonna love this.






The UK dvd:

■New digital anamorphic widescreen transfer
■Japanese with optional English subtitles
■An extensive 90-minute selection of interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, co-screenwriter Chigumi Obayashi, actress Kumiko Oba and Toho promotional executive Shoho Tomiyama
■Theatrical trailer
■A luxurious booklet, with new writing, stills, promotional material and more.

The Skids are coming

Don't gimme that Green Day/U2 shite! This is how it's supposed to sound!! The original version by the Skids from Scotland.



From 1978, with Stuart Adamson who later went on to form Big Country.

Every single time I go to the cinema I wish I were Sick Girl

If you're a movie fan who go to the cinema once in a while I dare you to not wanna be Sick Girl in this video. I certainly do. xD.

Sick Girl "Thank You For Not Talking" PSA

Sick Girl | MySpace Video

And besides that; I watched SICK GIRL (the movie, not to be confused with the "Masters of Horror" episode, which by the way is also totally cool!) and loved it! There's a whole thread of naysayers over on Dvdmaniacs (actually the only poster who likes it is Don May, the president of Synapse Films who released the film on dvd, LOL). Anyway, I quite liked it and thought it was good fun. Oh, and there's a docu on the dvd about Leslie Andrews, the girl who plays the fucked up main character, and, uhh, she's kinda messed up herself; For leisure time fun she's been taking death photos of herself the last three years, haha. Some boring critics keep saying the actors aren't good and all but it's a low-budget indie film so obviously you're not gonna get Jack Nicholson to star in it. Personally I didn't have a problem with the actors at all. Good fun!!


PS: The video isn't from the film but (I guess) a spot made for cinemas to get people to shut the fuck up. Cell phones, babies, teenagers, dumb people, and anything that lights up should be banned from every cinema on Earth and people should be hanged for breaking it. Very annoying.

Come to daddy little froggy

If you read one of the Scandinavian lingos you really ought to check out Søren Jacobsen's Skræk & Rædsel blog as this week has been French week with nothing but froggy horror flicks. Pretty cool! Go here.