Come to papa!

I've been trying to get hold of Ocean Shores' VHS release of the new-wave HK movie JUMPING ASH (1976) for quite a while and this afternoon I finally secured a copy. Yay! Actually, I've lost out to other eBay bidders TWICE in the past and BOTH times was due to my "only" having placed 30 bucks on the tape and some other schmuck won it for 31 dollars. TWICE!! .\_/.
Haha. Well, that's life.

A while ago a got hold of the Greek VHS which is taken from an old and scratched (beyond belief) print with big Greeks subs that cover up the on-screen text. Anyhoo, today was my lucky day! I placed 50 bucks and won the fucker for just under the 9 dollar mark! Amazing!! All the way up to the finishing line I kept thinking "somebody's GOT to make another bid! How could they not! Are they daft!! It's JUMPING ASH for crying out loud!!!" Hahaha. Oh well, maybe everyone was out in the sun. My luck indeed.

For my old posts about JUMPING ASH go here.




- below the old Greek VHS:

Survival of the Dead: talk 'bout barebone!

I've just bought George A. Romero's latest entry to his never-ending zombie tale; SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD. It's the UK DVD and you can get it cheap from Play.com (retailing at 7 Euros) and I must say I'm slightly disappointed. Usually I like to watch a film's trailer and some of the interviews. And it's cool to have the subtitle option. Well, you can forget any of that with this release; It has got NOTHING! O_O!! Nothing other than the film itself (obviously)!! No trailers, no interviews, no crappy advertising "documentaries", no alternative footage, or even English subs for the deaf (which I'd call hearing impaired if I were PC, so I don't). What a crappy release! And in addition to that some people even say the film sucks, haha (but obviously I'm gonna make up my own mind about that).





Gee, there's more extras in this post than on the DVD!!:/

Bobby A. Suarez double now set for October!

I wrote about the upcoming DVD release of THEY CALL HER CLEOPATRA WONG and ONE ARMED EXECUTIONER here and I've been informed that the release is now set for October. Also, I can now reveal it's going to be one release containing both films, i.e. not two separate releases. The info I have is that Andrew Leavold's interview with Bobby A. Suarez is probably going to be included. Word is the interview is the only one that was ever filmed with Bobby! I certainly hope it gets included.

Put on your bikini and shoot machine guns

Yep, this video is from the one they're watching in Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN. It's an awesome video; I mean all it is is a bunch of scantly clad sexy babes with automatic guns going: "This is an AK47" pow pow pow pow.
- Haha. Absolutely fantastic! xD. And yes I've posted it before but, uh, I thought you needed to see it again. LMAO. It's available on VHS and DVD in the US. I want one!

Better not piss off a truck!

I bought DUEL (1971) on DVD today. It's directed by Steven Spielberg from before be became famous. Funny enough, I also watched another early Spielberg film recently; MURDER BY THE BOOK (also from 1971). I haven't actually watched DUEL for many years but I do remember it as being really good (and I also remember being disappointed Dennis Weaver didn't act like his Mccloud character in the film. LOL). Although made for American telly it did actually play cinemas in Europe and OZ. Unfortunately, I never got to see it at the cinema but only on TV. As far as I remember the first time I watched DUEL was sometime in the 70s or early 80s maybe.

Message From Space on DVD

aka UCHU KARA NO MESSJI (Japan, 1978)

A hundred years ago I got a VHS dupe of this film from Henrik Larsen (Obskuriøst magazine) off the English dubbed Danish VHS, and now it's finally been released on DVD by Discotek Media. The film is a cool Japanese STAR WARS ripoff from 1978 starring among others Sonny Chiba and Hiroyuki "Henry" Sanada. It's directed by Kinji Fukasaku who also did THE GREEN SLIME and BATTLE ROYALE (to mention two rather different films, LOL).




Info from Discotek Media's eBay store:

OFFICIALLY LICENSED IMPORT VERSION! THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC, LICENSED DVD. Contains both the Japanese language version with English subtitles and the English language versions! Plays on all DVD players. The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the metal skinned Gavanas, who's leader Rockseia XLL takes orders from his old wretched mother. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each one to be received by a chosen one. Its up to these special warriors to save mankind from the Galvanas attack. Starring Sonny Chiba, Vic Morrow, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Tetsuro Tanba. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale)

THIS CLASSIC HAS BEEN UNAVAILABLE ON DVD UNTIL NOW!

Cry of the Banshee galore

How weird is that! This morning (around 11!) the mailman delivered two parcels, one from Mexico and the other from Denmark, and they both contained CRY OF THE BANSHEE!! O_O

The parcel from Denmark contained 12 rare ex-rental tapes (thanks Mikkel!) and one of them is the old Vincent Price movie CRY OF THE BANSHEE. And from Mexico I got the Mexican lobbycard. You can gawk at both of them in the above. xD. Awesome! Now I just need to get the DVD as well, haha.

Well, actually the DVD (from MGM's reg. 1 "Midnite Movies" series) is necessary as it contains the original British version of the film. This Danish tape is a bit of a curiosity as it contains AIP's old American print! According to a reivew on Uncut.dk by Jakob Skøtt, the US version is edited differently, scenes are swapped around, and some occult scenes are colour tinted. Obviously, I'd like to watch both versions.

THE MASKED DEVIL (Maskeli Seytan) (Turkey, 1971)

More psychotronic goodies from the world of Turkish pop cinema! MASKELI SEYTAN (which I assume means The Masked Devil) is from 1971 and directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz (who also did THE DEATHLESS DEVIL (DVD from MM) and SPY SMASHER (from Onar). This one comes courtesy of Ciko. Check out the trailer, it's pretty awesome not least the end where the baddies are attacked by... a MUMMY!! o_O

Most best ever video on a Wednesday!

Revolting Cocks doing "Do ya think I'm sexy"!!!

I taped this off MTV's "120 min" in around 1992 along with a Chris Connelly interview. Connelly was the lead singer at the time and one of the things he said was that the video is directed by the guy who did the special effects for the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. To me it looks more like it could have been done by someone who did the SFX for the much gorier sequel, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, part 2 but anyway I haven't actually been able to establish the connection between any of them, neither the video nor any of the films. EDIT: 12 years later and I've just rewatched the old Chris Connelly interview and I CLEARLY GOT IT WRONG the first time around! He doesn't mention that the director (Tom Rainone) directed TCM. He said that some of the castmembers from the original TCM are in the music video. D'oh!!! /Jack, 19.12.2022) And now I can't even remember the fucken director's name, hahaha. Arrr, sod it. Just watch this piece of brilliant trash popculture. There's stuff from 1980s splatter movies in there, there's psychotronica galore, and awesome chicks. One of the actors from TCM is there and Scott Ian (of Anthrax) shoots a machine gun in there somewhere too. Play this over and over all night. The picture quality is a li'l low but if you really wanna watch it properly it's out on DVD (incidentally a Ministry DVD!).