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    Crazy Samurai 400 Vs. 1 (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Well Go USA
    Released on: March 2nd, 2021.
    Director: Yûji Shimomura
    Cast: Kento Yamazaki, Yousuke Saito, Ben Hiura, Fuka Hara, Tak Sakaguchi
    Year: 2021
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    Crazy Samurai 400 Vs. 1 – Movie Review:

    Director Yûji Shimomura's 2020 film Crazy Samurai Musashi (which has been retitled Crazy Samurai 400 Vs. 1 for its North American release by distributor Well Go USA) starts with a scene where a young man,     ...
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    Dark Intruder (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber
    Released on: February 2nd, 2021.
    Director: Harvey Hart
    Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith
    Year: 1965
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    Dark Intruder – Movie Review:

    Directed by Harvey Hart, 1965's Dark Intruder is set in 1890 and stars the inimitable Leslie Nielsen (immortalized in The Naked Gun but so much more than just Frank Drebin) as an occult investigator named Brett Kingsford. He's called in by Police Commissioner     ...
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    Shogun’s Joy Of Torture (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: February 23rd, 2021.
    Director: Teruo Ishii
    Cast: Masumi Tachibana, Reiko Mikasa, Yuki Kagawa, Asao Koike, Miki Obana
    Year: 1968
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    Shogun’s Joy Of Torture – Movie Review:

    One of numerous ‘torture anthology’ films made by the inimitable Teruo Ishii, 1968’s Shogun’s Joy Of Torture presents three separate short stories set in the feudal era, all of which are joined by some obvious thematic elements. On their own, these stories are strong stuff, and when combined, they make for an even grislier viewing experience, albeit a very nicely made one. The production values in the film, like the other ‘torture’ films that Ishii     ...
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Female Demon Ohyaku (Synapse Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Synapse Films
    Released on: November 13th, 2007.
    Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
    Cast: Junko Miyazono, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kunio Murai, Koji Minawara
    Year: 1968
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Female Demon Ohyaku – Movie Review:

    Never before released on home video in North America (or on DVD in Japan), the first film in the Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress trilogy stars Junko Miyazono as Ohyaku. Poor Ohyaku has had a rough life. Her mother was a prostitute who tried to kill them both and the suicide attempt left the otherwise beautiful girl with a nasty scar along her back. Now grown,     ...
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    August Underground (Toetag Pictures) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Toetag Pictures
    Released on: September, 2005.
    Director: Fred Vogel
    Cast: Kyle Dealman, Casey Eganey, Fred Vogel, Dan Friedman, Aaron LaBonte, Ben LaBonte, Alexa Iris, Victoria Jones, Andy Lauer, Peter Mountain, Allan Peters, Steven Vogel
    Year: 2001
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    August Underground – Movie Review:

    Like a lot of people, I first heard of Fred Vogel, Toetag Pictures, and August Underground through an article in Rue Morgue Magazine. If you're curious, it was the February 2003 issue with House Of 1,000 Corpses on the cover. The article in question, written by Mike Watt, did a damn fine job of ensuring that I really never wanted to see this film. Quite simply, it sounded nasty. Well, a few years have passed     ...
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    Dark Tower (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: March 2nd, 2021.
    Director: Freddie Francis, Ken Wiederhorn
    Cast: Jenny Agutter, Michael Moriarty, Carol Linley, Theodore Bikel
    Year: 1988
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    Dark Tower – Movie Review:

    Directed under the alias of Ken Barnett by famed British cinematographer Freddie Francis (who worked on many Hammer and Amicus pictures during his heyday) and reportedly completed by cult filmmaker Ken     ...
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    The El Duce Tapes (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: David Lawrence, Ryan Sexton, Rodney Ascher
    Cast: Eldon Wayne Hoke, Hunter Jackson, Michael Bishop, Rick Bishop, Eric Carlson, Steve Broy
    Year: 2020
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    The El Duce Tapes – Movie Review:

    Eldon Wayne Hoke was born in 1958, and was killed in 1997 when, loaded out of his gourd, he ran into a fast moving train in Los Angeles. In the years between, he raised a lot of Hell as 'El Duce', mostly as the drummer/lead singer of notorious 'rape rock' pioneers, The Mentors. The band probably     ...
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    Queens Of Evil (Mondo Macabro) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Mondo Macabro
    Released on: March 9th, 2021.
    Director: Tonino Cervi
    Cast: Haydee Politoff, Silvia Monti, Evelyn Stewart, Ray Lovelock, Gianni Santuccio
    Year: 1970
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    Queens Of Evil – Movie Review:

    When Tonino Cervi’s 1970 film, Queens Of Evil, begins, a young man named David (Ray Lovelock), a bit of a hippie type, is riding his motorcycle through some pastoral scenery and enjoying the night time ride when he runs across a stranded motorist. The older man’s Rolls Royce has     ...
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    Eastern Promises (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: January 6th, 2021.
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Cast: Andrzej Borkowski, Naomi Watts, Sinéad Cusack, Boris Isarov, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel
    Year: 2007
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    Eastern Promises – Movie Review:

    When David Cronenberg’s 2007 film Eastern Promises begins, a fourteen year old Russian girl wanders the streets of London only to collapse on the floor of a pharmacy, blood seeping from between her legs. She’s rushed to     ...
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    The Curious Dr. Humpp (AGFA/Something Weird Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: AGFA/Something Weird Video
    Released on: January 26th, 2021.
    Director: Emilio Vieyra, Jerald Intrator
    Cast: Ricardo Bauleo, Gloria Prat, Aldo Barbero
    Year: 1971
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    The Curious Dr. Humpp – Movie Review:

    Originally released in its native Argentina as La Venganza Del Sexo, Emilio Vieyra’s film was picked up for stateside distribution by Jerry Intrator, the same man who gave us Satan In High Heels, and released to the American market with a whole lot of newly shot sex footage added into the picture. The result was The Curious Dr. Humpp, a mind-numbing mix of sci-fi elements, horror movie cliches and gratuitous     ...
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    Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review 

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    Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review
    Released by: Mondo Macabro
    Released: 2002.
    Director: Juan Lopez Moctezuma
    Cast: Claudio Brook, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini, David Silva
    Year: 1975
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    Alucarda – Movie Review:

    Directed in 1975 by the late Juan Lopez Moctezuma (producer of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo), Alucarda is a powerful and genuinely disturbing piece of nunsploitation. Known under a few different titles, it was most commonly seen in the USA as Sisters of Satan, and that's not a totally inaccurate description     ...
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    Bamboo House Of Dolls (Celestial Pictures) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Celestial Pictures
    Released on: December 4th, 2003.
    Director:     Chih-Hung Kuei
    Cast: Lo Lieh, Brite Tove, Wang Hsia, Li Hai-shu, Terry Liu
    Year: 1973
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    Bamboo House Of Dolls – Movie Review:

    A Women In Prison film from director Kuei Chih-hung (who also did Killer Snakes), Bamboo House Of Dolls takes its cues from the entries in this sub-genre that came before it but does the 'chicks in chains' thing with a decidedly Hong Kong/Shaw Brothers slant to it.

    Instead of nasty Nazis, this time around the culprits are the Japanese (a very common antagonist in Chinese cinema of this     ...
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    Madame Claude (Cult Epics) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Cult Epics
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: Just Jaeckin
    Cast: Francoise Fabian, Klaus Kinski, Dayle Haddon, Murray Head
    Year: 1977
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    Madame Claude – Movie Review:

    Made hot on the heels of box office sensations Emmanuelle and The Story Of O, director Just Jaeckin’s third film, 1977’s Madame Claude (which was based on the book of the same name by Jacques Quoirez and released in the United States originally under the alternate title of The French Woman) stars the beautiful Françoise     ...
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    The Train (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber
    Released on: January 5th, 2021.
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Cast: Suzanne Flon, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon
    Year: 1964
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    The Train – Movie Review:

    Directed by John Frankenheimer and based on the novel Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, 1964’s The Train takes place in France in 1944 at the height of the Second World War. The Allies are closing in and a high ranking German officer named Colonel     ...
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    Freaky (Universal Pictures) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Universal Pictures
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: Christopher Landon
    Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, Celeste O'Connor, Alan Ruck
    Year: 2020
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    Freaky – Movie Review:

    Directed by Christopher Landon, who co-wrote the script with Michael Kennedy, 2020's Freaky begins on Wednesday The 11th and takes place in the town of Blissfield, a small town that just so happens to be the     ...
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    Blood Ceremony (Mondo Macabro) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Mondo Macabro
    Released on: March 9th, 2021.
    Director: Jorge Grau
    Cast: Lucia Bose, Espartaco Santoni, Ewa Aulin, Ana Farra
    Year: 1973
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    Blood Ceremony – Movie Review:

    Directed by Jorge Grau, best known for the excellent Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (one of the finest zombie films to come out of the European horror boom), 1973’s The Legend Of Blood Castle is a pretty solid take on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a story that’s been milked in horror cinema time and time again (Hammer’s Countess Dracula standing as a good example).

    The film tells the story of a noblewoman named Marquise Erzsebet Bathory (Lucia Bose) who completely by chance winds up getting the blood of one of her super-hot     ...
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    Honey Boy (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: December 2nd, 2020.
    Director: Alma Har'el
    Cast: Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Shia LaBeouf, FKA Twigs, Byron Bowers, Laura San Giacomo
    Year: 2019
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    Honey Boy – Movie Review:

    Directed by Alma Har'el from a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, which the actor wrote based on his own childhood, Honey Boy introduces us to Otis Lort. When we first meet him, he’s an adult (played     ...
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    Video Essay - Pupi Avati's The House With The Laughing Windows 

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    Rock! Shock! Pop! is once again proud to host Paul A.J. Lewis' latest video essay, a look into Pupi Avati's classic 1976 picture, The House With The Laughing Windows!

    La casa dalle finestre che ridono (The House with Laughing Windows; ...
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    Bizarre (Synapse Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Synapse Films
    Released on: June 28th, 2005.
    Director: Anthony Balch
    Cast: Richard Schulman, Janet Spearman, Dorothy Grumbar, Anthony Rowlands, Norma Eden
    Year: 1970
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    Bizarre – Movie Review:

    Bizarre (better known as The Secrets Of Sex, which is what is on the title card used for this presentation) is an Amicus-style anthology film laid out in a similar way to films like The House That Dripped Blood but with the emphasis being much more on sex rather than blood. Narrated by a talking mummy (British radio personality Valentine Dyall provides the voice), through the film we witness the ongoing battle of the sexes through various     ...
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    He Came From The Swamp: The William Grefé Collection (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: November 24th, 2020.
    Director: William Grefé
    Cast: Rita Hayworth, Richard Jaeckel, Christopher George, John Darrell, Jeremy Slate
    Year: 1966, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1977, 2001, 2016
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    He Came From The Swamp: The William Grefé Collection – Movie Review:

    Arrow Video, in conjunction with Something Weird Video, gathers together a nice selection of Florida-based exploitation impresario William Grefé in one deluxe boxed set dubbed He Came From The Swamp: The William Grefé Collection. Here's what is inside…

    Sting Of Death/Death Curse Of Tartu:

    1966's Sting Of Death opens with a scene where a monstrous hand reaches for a screwdriver and destroys a radio before then heading to a dock and murdering a beautiful blonde woman lounging beside the water. The creature (some guy in a wet suit, flippers and some goop) drags her corpse through the water as the opening credits play out over top. From there, a group of people arrives at that very same dock and head into the house nearby. It turns out that this is the home of a Marine Biologist named Dr. Richardson (Jack Nagle) and his daughter Karen (Valerie Hawkins) has just returned from college for spring breaks with a few foxy friends in tow. Richardson's right hand man, the much younger Dr. John Hoyt (Joe Morrison), is also hanging around, as is a manservant named Egon (John Vella), a creepy guy with a droopy eye and some bad burns on his face.

    From there? It's party time! A bunch of guys from the nearby biology school are heading over to the beach to party with the girls. From here, a large group of cool kids jump, jive and wail to the sounds of Neil Sedaka's smash hit, ‘Do The Jellyfish.' At any rate, as all     ...
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