Upcoming kung fu movies from Global

If you've read some of my old posts recently you know I've been talking quite a bit about the rare and unreleased (to homecinema anyway) Hong Kong/Thailand Lo Lieh film BIG BOSS PART 2 which Naushad Mohamed from Global Video had a print of until very recently.

A while ago a forum member that I know from Uncut.dk forum wrote to him and asked about the film and was told that he sold off the print to a cinema in Zambia. On the Kung Fu Cinema forum he has stated that he's kept a copy of the film (in one format or another, I'm not sure if it's a mere DVD-R or what) and I was hoping he'd be willing to sell either DVD-R copies of the film or even put it out as a proper DVD. Well, no such luck. He mentioned today on KFC that if he puts it out it won't be for several years.

MARTIAL MATES aka Black Dragon River

However, I asked Naushad which movies he is planning to put out in the near future and here's a list of upcoming titles. They're all taken from his 35mm prints.


Titles to be released soon:
MARTIAL MATES aka Black Dragon River
SUPERGIRL OF KUNG FU
GAME OF DEATH (Ramon Zamora)
FEMALE CHIVALRY
SPIRIT OF THE DRAGON (Ramon Zamora)
KUNG FU MONK

And later in the year/possibly next year:
KARATE STORY
ROTARY KICKS

And these English dubbed SB films:
DUEL OF FISTS
FLYING GUILOTINE 2
MY YOUNG AUNTIE


GLOBAL VIDEO
Global Video is located in South Africa and is run by Naushad Mohamed. From what I'm told Naushad Mohamed inherited a lot of films from his father-in-law who owned one of the biggest cinemas in S.A. and it's from this huge collection that he gets his rare prints.

Global Video is quite well known among fans of Italian spaghetti westerns as Naushad has put out many of these titles on DVD. Titles that are rare and/or haven't even been released to homecinema anywhere else. Global has also put out a number of other films but in posts on various forums Mohamed has kept stating that he prefers to put out spaghetti westerns as they're much more profitable than for instance Filipino films. He's always made it clear he's in this as a businessman, not as a film fan.

Actually, at some stage he was going to go put out a whole line of very rare Filipino films (one was Bobby A. Suarez' COSA NOSTRA ASIA, starring Chris Mitchum, which has never been released anywhere in English) but he cancelled the line after only three films (BIONIC BOY, DYNAMITE JOHNSON: BIONIC BOY 2, and THEY CALL HER CLEOPATRA WONG) because they didn't sell very well (he stated at one point they only sold 300 copies each). There's been speculation (and debate) among fans on message boards as to whether his DVDs (real factory printed DVDs, not DVDR) are bootlegs or not but Mohamed maintains they are legal releases as he has bought the rights for them in South Africa.

I bought the two BIONIC BOY films and CLEO WONG from him and they're pretty cool to have, not least since they haven't been released anywhere else on DVD. The picture quality isn't all that great; I don't know if he has a machine to copy from 35mm himself or he pays someone else to do it but the DVDs look like they've been transferred in the most crude way possible. When you watch the DVDs it's exactly like watching a film print with all its flaws that come from having been played quite a bit in cinemas. I guess somehow it has a certain charm.

The DVD covers are pretty basic and there's absolutely no extras on the discs. Global have no website as, according to Naushad Mohamed, nobody uses that in South Africa! So it's actually a little difficult to figure out how many titles are available or not.

Flesh & Blood... Compendium!

Niiice!!! I received a never used copy of Harvey Fenton's legendary book Flesh & Blood Compendium today! The book is a huge compendium of the best stuff from the first ten issues of Fenton's film fanzine/magazine of the same title. This is indeed brilliant as the book as been out of print for quite a while and go for steep prices. Big thank-yous go out to Henschjell of Uncut.dk for letting me have it for what I'd reckon is peanuts compared to what it often goes for on eBay. If you can find it on eBay that is! I did a 30 sec. check and all I found was issue #5 of the magazine and the "buy now" price was more than what Henschjell wanted! Just brilliant! :D


From FAB Press' site (which Harvey Fenton runs):

The Cult Magazine that Boldly Strode into the Dark Heart of the Exploitation Film Jungle!

Over the course of ten seminal issues in magazine format and a hugely successful book format edition, Flesh & Blood became established as the leading brand name in cutting-edge film criticism during the latter years of the Twentieth Century. Always one step ahead of the rest, Flesh & Blood featured the world's best writers reporting on the most important sex, horror and exploitation cinema in the world. Flesh & Blood Compendium is simply The Best of The Best.

Ground-Breaking Articles on eye-opening subjects including: Prosthetic Sex Films, RealiTV and Death Film, Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Marquis de Sade, Jack the Ripper, Postmodern Slasher Movies, British Trash Films from the 70s, Charles Manson, Rape/Revenge movies, African Witchdoctors, French vampires, Japanese Ultra Violence and Belgian artcore...

Interviews with cinematic legends including: Russ Meyer, Joe D'Amato, Jess Franco, Tinto Brass, Bigas Luna, Marco Ferreri, Fred Williamson, Coffin Joe, Peter Jackson, Gerard Damiano, Freddie Francis and many more!

All this topped off by a never-ending reviews section covering films that can't be read about anywhere else, and all delivered with the Flesh & Blood guarantee of top-quality, enthusiastic, accessible and intelligent critical writing.
# Pre-Postmodern Slasher Seeks Ironic Teen for 'Meaningful' Termination
# The Eye In The Portal of Hell - Coffin Joe interview
# Frustration
# Jacking Off the Censor
# Jack The Ripper on video
# Marketing of the Contemporary British Horror Film
# Thanks for the Mammaries - Russ Meyer interview
# Deadlier than the Male
# Pasolini, Salò, Sade
# The Vulgar World of Tinto Brass
# Dissecting the Human Condition - Nacho Cerdá interview
# Necrophilic Art
# Cerdá on Love, Death and Life - Genesis set report
# The British Trash Files
# Dust Devil, Tarkovsky and God - Richard Stanley interview
# The Devil in Mr. Damiano
# The Devil Made Her Do It!
# The Operation
# Gina Velour - pictorial
# don't make God the villain - Scooter McCrae interview
# Freddie Francis interview
# of vampires and the gods of Greece - Harry Kümel interview
# I Know You're Watching Me
# Cafe Flesh 2
# Beyond Ultra Violence
# Marco Ferreri
# The Early Years - Peter Jackson interview
# Mario Bava's Bleak World View - The Nihilism of Rabid Dogs
# The Making of Exposé
# Prosthetic Sex
# The Final Girl in Folktale and Horror Film
# The Erotic Obsessions of Bigas Luna
# A Different Point of View - Jess Franco interview
# Coming to a Fork in the Road - Frank LaLoggia interview
# Flesh & Blood - The First Ten Years
# Fantasy, Reality and Bodily Fluids - Behind the Green Door
# They Sucked His Brains Out!
# William Burroughs
# Charlie's Family - Jim Van Bebber interview
# Dead Men Don't Rape
# Gangstas, Grier & Golf - Fred Williamson interview
# A Legacy of Terror - Norman J. Warren interview
# More Blood!
# Michael Ninn's Sex and Beyond
# Postcard From Colonel Kurtz - RealiTV and the Death Film
# Michele Soavi interview
# The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
# Joe D'Amato Talks Dirty
# Flesh & Blood Film Reviews

More memorable scenes from Pedicab Driver

Philosophical quote for today

Screen grabs from the new HONG KONG GODFATHER dvd

Here's a bunch of screen grabs from the new spiffy release of HONG KONG GODFATHER that all fans of violent HK triad films have been impatiently waiting for! xD. The scans come courtesy of the two Ians; Ian Jane and Ian F of Dvdmaniacs.











The old bootleg. Cut and dubbed in Mandarin but until the new version the only way to watch the film.

Bruce is a many splendoured thing

Note: This post was originally only about the Bruceploitation book but if you wanna read about TURKISH PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC and beyond then go to the comments section!



Whoo-hoo! There's a book on Bruceploitaion on its way!! How truly awesome is that - well, if you're a fan of exploitation cinema anyway (and that would be me, LOL). There's no final release date nor price yet. It's listed on Amazon UK for pre-order but according to the two authors (based in the UK) neither the date nor price mentioned on Amazon is correct. It'll probably be cheaper and get released sooner.

RM Films International demand Dvdmaniacs ban members

My most recent post from yesterday is about the Russ Meyer Collection box. Incidentally, there's been a long running thread called "How Come Russ Meyer Films Are Poorly Distributed on DVD?" over on the film forum DVDMANIACS (aka AV Maniacs). The thread is dealing with the fact that Russ Meyer's films haven't been re-released in proper remastered versions and that all that's available are DVD releases pulled from old laserdisc or VHS masters. Out of the US and UK DVDs the UK ones (which I talked about yesterday) are by far the better ones.

However, one of the things that has been talked incisively about in that thread is how Russ Meyer was diagnosed with Alzheimer's during the last few years of his life and that scrupleless caretakers took over his estate (Meyers didn't have any family) and had him sign over his film rights and all to them. Now, obviously I wasn't a fly on a wall in Meyer's mansion so my info is from what I've read on the Internet but I believe it's well known knowledge by now and that this is how the situation is. These people now run RM Films International and are behind the Russ Meyer DVDs in the US.

Anyhoo, then yesterday these fine people sent Dvdmaniacs a letter demanding the people in charge ban a list of members who have been critically vocal about RM Films and that posts be deleted. Yeah, wauw! What douchebags!! You can read the letter here (post #170) and follow the case. Today Dvdmaniacs mainman Ian Jane sent them a letter which is also posted in the thread (post #219). Maybe these people ought to consider working with Meyer's fans instead of against them - and if they put out proper versions they wouldn't have to be bothered with negative criticism over the old crappy ones. Just a thought. ;-)

"If you want wild women fast..."

About 18 months ago I discovered that the über cool Russ Meyer Collection box from the UK had been reduced to only £43 on Amazon UK. With an added fee for postage it all came to a "whooping" £45! That's only around $70 for 18 awesome Russ Meyer films! And on top of this we're not talking crappy public domain releases (a format that doesn't exist in the UK or Europe anyway) but proper DVD releases.

And in addition to being proper releases I'm also told they're way better than the reg. 1 releases. And they contains extras which the US discs don't. And the US discs are way way more expensive. So £45 seemed like a VERY good deal. And it was. But get this: I've just discovered that now you can get the same box for... £18!! That's 28 dollars (or 155 DKK). Arggh. If you have the slightest interest in cool psychotronic movies I strongly suggest you get hold of this ASAP!

John Waters once described Russ Meyers' film FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! as the best move ever made (basically it's about three über-cool/über-tough chicks who drive about somewhere in the mid-1960s and kick other peoples ass, or have sex with 'em, or kill 'em, or both! Basically have fun, listen to way cool music, and look mean! Whadda movie!That film alone is worth the $28 dollar price tag!!! In fact all Russ Meyers' four "Roughies" movies (Faster Pussycat, Lorna, Motorpsycho, and Mudhoney) are in the box. Get it here.

PS: Yes, they are PAL DVDs so if you're in the US you'll need to make sure your DVD player can play that format (or play them on your computer).







PS: The German title for FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! translates to The Satan Chicks from Titsville (Die Satansweiber von Tittfield). Haha.

Oi, Danish ham, I'm talking to you!

I have a feeling my Danish section of this blog is so secret that even my Danish and Scandinavian readers either forget to check for new posts or don't even realise it exists. The link is located in the bar on the right. Or click here.

The (zombie) South Shall Rise Again

"Curse of the Cannibal Confederates"?? More like curse of the zombie confederates!! LMAO.