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    Guinea Pig Box Set (Unearthed Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Unearthed Films
    Released on: January 25th, 2005.
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    Year: Various
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    Guinea Pig Box Set – Movie Review:

    Way back in 2005, Unearthed Films wisely packaged up all four of their Guinea Pig DVD releases (with slightly improved cover art) and bundled them together in one fancy package and passed the savings on to you! That set is long out of print now, but here's a look at what was inside the Guinea Pig Box Set:

    Guinea Pig: Devil’s Experiment:

    The premise behind this shot on video Japanese short film from 1988 is that it’s basically a representation of a snuff film that was circulating in certain unsavory circles in Japan in the early 1980s. That’s all you really need to know going into it, and it’s explained in the subtitles at the beginning of the film. What follows is pretty much filmed nihilism - a cinematic study in torture and violence.

    A woman is abducted, who she is, we don’t know. Her name is never mentioned. Her three captors, all dressed in black, also never reveal their names or their reasoning behind her abduction. All we know is that they’ve got her, they’ve bound her, and they’re going to put her through some of the most perverse and disturbing tortures you can think of, to test the limits of the human body and see how much pain it can withstand.

    The nameless victim is punched repeatedly, viciously and kicked around, and then it starts to get nasty. Salt is rubbed into her abrasions, maggots are
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    Killing Machine (Adness) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Adness
    Released on: October 6th, 2004.
    Director: Norifumi Suzuki
    Cast: Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Tetsuro Tamba, Yutaka Nakajima, Sanae Kitabayashi
    Year: 1975
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    Killing Machine – Movie Review:

    Sinichi "Sonny" Chiba, the man with the sideburns and the karate skills that only a 70's action hero can maintain, is a veritable killing machine. At least that's the vibe you get from this aptly-titled martial arts flick from director Norifumi Suzuki. Chiba's screen presence is easily comparable to that of the most famous fight flick forefather of all, Bruce Lee. It's all about intensity with the Cheebster, and his brand of 'mean man'
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    U.D.O. - Live In Bulgaria 2020 Pandemic Survival Show (AFM Records) Album Review 

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    Released by: AFM Records
    Released on: March 19th, 2021.
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    Recorded in Bulgaria - where life is cheap!

    Hot on the heels of his utterly bizarre We Are One collaboration (also reviewed here
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    The Forest (Code Red Releasing) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Code Red Releasing
    Released on: February 23rd, 2021.
    Director: Don Jones
    Cast: John Batis, Tomi Barrett, Dean Russell, Ann Wilkinson, Gary Kent, Becki Burke, Corky Pigeon
    Year: 1982
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    The Forest – Movie Review:

    The Forest, directed by Don Jones in 1982, starts off with a lot of traffic jam footage before introducing us to Steve (Dean Russell) and Charlie (John Batis), two dudes looking to ditch their better
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    The Mary Millington Movie Collection (Screenbound International) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Screenbound International
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: George Harrison Marks, Willy Roe, Nick Galtress, John M. East, Roy Deverell, Simon Sheridan
    Cast: Mary Millington, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl, Glynn Edwards, Gavin Campbell, David Lake, Sally Faulkener, John M. East, Allan Warren
    Year: 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 2015
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    The Mary Millington Movie Collection – Movie Review:

    Mary Millington, born Mary Ruth Maxted in 1945, passed away from an overdose in 1979 but she remains a popular counter culture figure in her native England and beyond thanks to her run as a model and actress in various adult magazines and films made in conjunction with publisher/producer David Sullivan. British Blu-ray distributor Screenbound Films gathers together a selection of some of her better remembered films and has released them, with a load of extra features, as The Mary Millington Movie Collection.

    Disc One: Come Play with Me (1977):

    Directed by George Harrison Marks, this first film tells the story of an aged criminal named Cornelius Clapworthy (played by Harrison Marks himself) who makes his money as a forger. He and his partner in crime, Maurice Kelly (Alfie Bass), have been passing fake banknotes around London with quite a bit of success lately, although when they wind up on the wrong side of Slasher (Ronald Fraser), the gangster in charge of their operation, and find themselves pursued not only by him but also by a cross-dressing government man named Podsnap (Ken Parry) they decide to take off to the Highlands in nearby Scotland. Here they pose as a pair of travelling musicians and take up residence at Bovington Manor. Run by a woman named Lady
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    Fellini’s Casanova (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber
    Released on: December 8th, 2020.
    Director: Federico Fellini
    Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne
    Year: 1976
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    Fellini’s Casanova – Movie Review:

    Directed by Federico Fellini in 1976, Casanova stars Donald Sutherland as the infamous Italian man whose name has gone on to become synonymous with a man’s ability to seduce members of the fairer sex. Set in the seventeenth century and filmed entirely on location in Rome and set to a fantastic score from
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    Tintorera (Scorpion Releasing) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Scorpion Releasing
    Released on: January 5th, 2021.
    Director: René Cardona Jr.
    Cast: Hugo Stiglitz, Fiona Lewis, Jennifer Ashley, Susan George, Andrés García
    Year: 1977
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    Tintorera – Movie Review:

    Directed by Mexican horror and exploitation impresario René Cardona Jr. in 1977, two years after Jaws shattered box office records, Tintorera (also known as Tintorera: Killer Shark and Tiger Shark) centers around the exploits of a man named Steven (Hugo Stiglitz). He’s an
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Okatsu The Fugitive (Synapse Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Synapse Films
    Released on: November 13th, 2007.
    Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
    Cast: Junko Miyazono, Tatsuo Umemiya, Reiko Oshida, Yoichi Numata
    Year: 1969
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Okatsu The Fugitive – Movie Review:

    Never before released on home video in North America (or on DVD in Japan), the third and final film in the Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress trilogy sees Junko Miyazono as character once again named Okatsu.

    Once again directed by Nobuo Nakagawa (the same man who directed
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Quick-Draw Okatsu (Synapse Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Synapse Films
    Released on: November 13th, 2007.
    Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
    Cast: Junko Miyazono, Ko Nishimura, Kenji Imai, Harumi Sone, Yukie Kagawa, Reiko Oshida, Tomisaburo Wakayama
    Year: 1969
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    Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress: Quick-Draw Okatsu – Movie Review:

    Never before released on home video in North America (or on DVD in Japan), the second film in the Legends Of The Poisonous Seductress trilogy once again stars Junko Miyazono, this time as Okatsu, the daughter of a swordsman. Her life is calm and tranquil until her father
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    Cthulhu Mansion (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: March 2nd, 2021.
    Director: Juan Piquer Simón
    Cast: Frank Finlay, Marcia Layton, Luis Fernando Alvés, Brad Fisher
    Year: 1992
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    Cthulhu Mansion – Movie Review:

    One of Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón’s later efforts, 1992’s Cthulhu Mansion opens with an interesting scene documenting a very sinister magic act wherein a is made to float above an altar, raised by the magical
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    Barton Fink (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: January 6th, 2021.
    Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
    Cast: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub
    Year: 1991
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    Barton Fink – Movie Review:

    Set in the early 1940s, The Coen Brothers’ 1991 film Barton Fink is the story of a playwright of the same name (John Turturro of Miller's Crossing) who moves from his home in New York to the bustling borrow
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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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