It's a sad and beautiful world

Funny story. As you probably know I watch all kinds of weird horror movies from around the globe. One of my recent discoveries is the "Flying Head With Intestines Dangling Underneath" genre. For years I've been familiar with the very entertaining MYSTICS IN BALI but I always figured it was just a single film and not an entire genre but as it turns out there's a whole heap of films from Indonesia and (especially) Thailand about flying heads! Recently I've been able to find some of these films on VCD from Thailand (and on video from Sweden!!!) and a couple of days ago I found another one, KRASUE KUD PORB, at an eBay store in Thailand. Unfortunately someone else had already made a bid for it but I thought I'd just try and outbid him. After all, how many people are interested in these films. But then something most unexpected happened; the other "seller" kept bidding until we reached $60. Now, dear reader, think about this again; we're talking 60 dollars for a bloody un-subtitled video-cd with crappy picture quality. Even my bidding $60 was crazy so I decided to stop when the other one outbid me with $61. None of that is suspectful... but then this morning... I received an email from the seller saying the other bidder didn't have the money to pay for the VCD! So if I wanted the film I could have it for $60! Yeah right, you think I'm an idiot!! One of my film friends and I have both previously experienced to have lost auctions from this seller and just after the end of the auction he has emailed us and said that by chance he has just found an extra copy which we can buy for the same price as the winning bid. I got a feeling this seller now got greedy and wanted to see how far he could stretch the bow. I was so annoyed I began going thru all the VCD's at eThaiCD.com (often you can't do an ordinary search due to Thai titles being transcribed differently from Thai to Roman letters) and after about two short minutes I found it... at the price of... 6 dollars!! Including postage!!!
It's pretty cool to get this rare VCD ten times cheaper but it's also sad that there are people who'll go to such great lengths in order to make a buck.

Ahh, life is beautiful! I'm on holiday on the continent - and soon, very very soon, I'll be getting THIS:


The STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL from 1978!!!
It's weird; STAR WARS has been such an overwhelming success ever since the first film came out in 1977 but still almost nobody knows about this little seen TV holiday special that was made in 1978 to keep the interest in STAR WARS afloat. It stars the original actors from the real films; Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and maaaybe Mark Hamill (although some Internet sources say it's not actually the real Mark Hamill!!). It's supposed to be the worst pile of shite ever and George Lucas has (allegedly) stated he'd like to smash every copy of it with a hammer. One girl on IMDB wrote: "I lost an hour and a half of my life and really nothing happened during that time other than losing any shred of respect I may have had for George Lucas." This may very well turn out to be true... but by Jove I wanna watch this regardless.

The big wait

I ordered FATAL TERMINATION (violent Hong Kong movie) and WARDOG (violent Swedish movie) in February from "Dragon & Tiger" in Austria and now, three months later, they're finally shipping them out to me! Both DVDs were 'in stock' and it still took them three months. I emailed them and they never bothered to answer me. Anyway, screw the wait and all, I'm getting them now, they're both uncut and supposed to be excellent versions so woo-hoo!!!
You can check out D&T here.


FATAL TERMINATION stars Moon Lee, Simon Yam and Phillip Ko!!

You make me sick!

It took me ten minutes to chow down a whole bag of lollies (i.e. candy/sweets if you speak different kinds of Engerlish) and now I feel sick! For fuck's sake when will I learn!!!

Yiddish lesson for today

Kvetch [kvech] slang.
–verb (used without object) 1. to complain, esp. chronically.
–noun 2. Also, kvetcher. a person who kvetches.

kvetch
intr.v. kvetched, kvetch·ing, kvetch·es
To complain persistently and whiningly.
n.
A chronic, whining complainer.
A nagging complaint: "a rambling kvetch against the system".

kvetch
noun
1. (Yiddish) a constant complainer
2. (Yiddish) a nagging complaint
verb
1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" [syn: complain] [ant: cheer]

Pre-cert Betamax

Blah! I ate too much pizza tonight and I feel sick now! I guess I shouldn't have started off with that burger!

Anyway, I finally received my second batch of Betamax tapes from the UK! Yes, exiting!! They're in a terrible condition but that's not important. They're just cool to have (and they cost close to nothing).



Werewoves on Wheels Banned Pre-Cert Beta
Demon Pre-cert vhs
Hellnight Pre-Cert Banned Beta
House Of Exorcism Banned Pre-Cert Beta
I Drink Your Blood Pre-Cert Banned Beta
Love At First Bite Pre-Cert Beta
Mothers Day Pre-Cert Beta
Scanners Pre-Cert Beta
Terror Express Pre-Cert Beta
The Awakening Pre-Cert Beta
The Black Cat Banned Pre-Cert VHS
THe Blood Spattered Bride Pre-Cert Beta
The Slayer Pre-Cert Beta
Unhinged Banned Pre-Cert VHS
Virus Pre-Cert Beta

Only surviving "Vampira" show finally screening at Attic J.

Last night I watched the only surviving episode of the original "Vampira" TV show from 1954!!! It was quite a treat finally getting to watch this show after having read about it for years and years, and after having watched Tim Burton's rendition of it in his (very good) film ED WOOD. The very first time I saw Vampira (the character) was around 1991 when I went to the cinema and watched PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE in Melbourne. And now, 15+ years later I finally get to watch her old 1950s TV-show. It was great, dark, cool, horrifying, and everything. In other words; as cool as "Vampira" in ED WOOD makes it out to be! I thought the DVD would only contain the show itself but actually it also contained the film Vampira showed on that dark and chilly night: THE MYSTERY OF THE 13TH GUEST (a Monogram horror movie from 1943). I watched the whole thing and the film was alright, not the best horror movie ever, but alright. But of course, it was nothing compared to the joy of finally being able to watch the "Vampira" show, even if the whole thing only lasted five minutes or so. An interesting feature is they kept the original TV ads in the movie and altho I usually hate TV ads I thought this was pretty cool. By the way, I found an online listing of all the films Vampira showed and guess what; She did actually show WHITE ZOMBIE as portrayed in ED WOOD! However, in ED WOOD we see WHITE ZOMBIE being shown on Halloween eve which is, eh, let's call it an stroke of artistic freedom on Tim Burton's part, haha. Actually it was shown in May. The Halloween film (shown the night before Halloween '54) was actually KING OF THE ZOMBIES! Ahhh, Vampira.






PS: Yep, I was sick of this blog being all black so now we're all red! (press F11 to remove the bar on top).

À l'intérieur

Woo-hoo! I finally received À l'INTÉRIEUR aka Inside in the mail today. It's taken a while, apparently it's shaken up such a stir that it's been sold out everywhere for a while but now it's here, here at Casa J!! I also got NEKROMANTIK 2 so the weekend is saved! Hah.

Sons of Mike Nomad doing Eindhoven '84

My cd player is busted so I'm going thru my old cassette tapes (now it really IS like living in 1988 'round here; I bought Betamax video tapes last week and now I'm fucking listening to cassette tapes, haha). Anyway, one of the tapes I pulled out is a bootleg of the kings of garage-rock, THE NOMADS, playing live in Eindhoven, Holland, 1984. It's just so good and cool and... Nomads-ie! And all day I've been thinking: 'Why don't they put out something new!!!'
They ought to. Nomads forever.

(and I should probably chose which lingo to use for this blog!)

Bruno Matteis store mesterværk

I dag fik jeg Bruno Matteis RATS indenfor døren. Jeg prøvede at sætte foden for, men den rendte sgu ved siden af og nu har den gemt sig et eller andet sted. Fandens!!
Som enhver exrental-samler med repæækt for sig selv vil vide, så udkom den på Polygram lejevideo for længe siden. Jeg har i mine år som samler kun een eneste gang præsteret at finde den. Men nu er den altså så kommet tilbage til Danevang, ikke fra Polygram, men AWE, så hvorfor tar du ikke bare og køber den. Skidt med filmen, det er bookletten, du skal koncentrerer dig om.

Det er i øvrigt sjovt, som omslags-info ændrer sig; på det nye dvd-cover nævnes det, at filmen foregår i år 2240. På den gamle vhs står der 2015! Men okay, selv hvis 2015 havde været korrekt (det er det ikke), så ville jeg nok ha foreslået, at man ændrede det. Sådan er det jo uheldgivis med science fiction-film, der foregår i en nøjagtigt bestemt tidsperiode; tiden har det med at nå op til filmen, og ganske som i "Månebase Alpha" (der foregår langt ude i fremtiden, nemlig år 1999), så er virkelighedens fremtid sjældent så radikalt anderledes, som den er i forfatterens fantasi. Eller også er den. Nogle gang meget mere. Hvem havde fx forestillet sig, hvor meget computere skulle være kommet til at fylde i vores liv. Vel at mærke, UDEN at de er blevet dræbermaskiner, vi behøver leve nede i kloarkerne for at undgå. Æv! Det havde sgu nok været meget sjovt.

(Hvis du ikke kender så meget til billige horrorfilm fra Italien, og hvis du synes at kunne fornemme en vist, ahm, ironisk distancetagen til filmen, så har du naturligvis ret; RATS er et makværk uden lige, men som trashfilm fyldt med blod, vold, og bare patter, så gør den det, den skal; den underholder. Og dét er bestemt det vigtigste!)

PS. Coveret er ikke det nye, det kan man sikkert snart se alle mulige andre steder, så jeg syntes, det var sjovere med den gamle danske vhs.