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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.
    Director: Various
    Cast: Various
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Hills Run Red (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: Carlo Lizzani (as Lee W. Beaver)
    Cast: Henry Silva, Dan Duryea, Thomas Hunter, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Nando Gazzolo
    Year: 1966
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    The Hills Run Red – Movie Review:

    At the end of the American Civil War, two friends return home with a whole lot of stolen cash. Unfortunately for them, some Yankee soldiers catch them with the loot. Ken Seagull (played by Nando Gazzolo of Django Shoots     ...
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    Happy Times (Artsploitation Films) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Artsploitation Films
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: Michael Mayer
    Cast: Michael Aloni, Liraz Chamami, Iris Bahr, Alon Pdut, Stéfi Celma
    Year: 2019
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    Happy Times – Movie Review:

    Michael Mayer’s 2019 film Happy Times is set pretty much entirely at a posh mansion situated in the hills of Hollywood. Here Sigal (Liraz Chamami) and Yosi (Ido Mor) decides to invite a group of friends over     ...
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    Martial Law 1 & 2 (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: November 27th, 2020.
    Director: Steve Cohen, Kurt Anderson
    Cast: Chad McQueen, Cynthia Rothrock, David Carradine, Jeff Wincott, Paul Johansson, Billy Drago
    Year: 1991/1992
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    Martial Law 1 & 2 – Movie Review:

    The two movies that put the mighty Cynthia Rothrock, arguably the greatest American female action star in history, on the map, are now on special (and limited!) edition Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome!

    Martial Law:

    When the first film opens, a kung-fu cop working for the L.A.P.A. named Sean Thompson (Chad McQueen – son of the great Steve McQueen!), nicknamed ‘Martial Law’ for reasons never properly explained, has disguised himself as a Domino’s Pizza delivery guy to make his way into a jewelry shop where the bad guys currently holding people hostage inside are…     ...
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    My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (First Look Features) DVD Review 

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    Released by: First Look Features
    Released on: September 14th, 2010.
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Michael Pena, Grace Zabriskie
    Year: 2010
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    My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done – Movie Review:

    The first collaboration between David Lynch, here serving as producer, and Werner Herzog, handling directorial duties, 2010's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is a weird film. You'd expect it to be, given the fact that it's from the men who gave us Eraserhead and Even Dwarves Started     ...
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    JSA - Joint Security Area (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: January 19th, 2021.
    Director: Park Chan-wook
    Cast: Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho
    Year: 2000
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    JSA - Joint Security Area – Movie Review:

    Park Chan-wook has received a lot of critical acclaim not only in his homeland of South Korea but also on the international cinema circuit for his revenge dramas, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance but his star first really started to rise in 2000 with the military thriller JSA or, Joint Security     ...
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    Giant From The Unknown (The Film Detective) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: The Film Detective
    Released on: January 19th, 2021.
    Director: Richard E. Cunha
    Cast: Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Buddy Baer, Gary Crutcher
    Year: 1958
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    Giant From The Unknown – Movie Review:

    Directed by Hawaiian born filmmaker Richard E. Cunha, the same man who gave us Frankenstein's Daughter and Missile To The Moon, is set in and around the small California mountain town of Pine Ridge. The locals are in a bit of a huff lately, as they’ve found some animals torn to bits and, more recently,     ...
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    Gambling City (No Shame Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: No Shame Films
    Released on: July 26th, 2005.
    Director: Sergio Martino
    Cast: Luc Merenda, Dayle Haddon, Corrado Pani, Enrico Maria Salerno, Lino Troisi
    Year: 1975
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    Gambling City – Movie Review:

    Luc Merenda (the handsome French star of Sergio Martino's earlier The Violent Professionals and Joe D'Amato's Tough To Kill) stars in this thriller from Sergio Martino that walks the line between an Italian crime film, a drama, a comedy, and a thriller.

    Merenda plays Luca Altieri. When we first meet Luca, he's decked out in jeans and a sweatshirt but still     ...
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    Lady Frankenstein (Nucleus Films) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Nucleus Films
    Released on: April 17th, 2019.
    Director: Mel Welles
    Cast: Rosalba Neri, Joseph Cotton, Paul Mueller, Herbert Fux, Mickey Hargitay
    Year: 1971
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    Lady Frankenstein – Movie Review:

    Long a staple of budget releases and multipacks thanks to its ‘public domain’ status, Lady Frankenstein stars the gorgeous Rosalba Neri (credited as Sara Bay) as Tania Frankenstein, the daughter of the infamous Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotton). When we meet her, she’s just been accredited as a surgeon and is     ...
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    Half Baked (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: November 4th, 2020.
    Director: Tamra Davis
    Cast: Dave Chapelle, Harland Williams, Jim Breuer, Rachel True, Guillermo Diaz
    Year: 1998
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    Half Baked – Movie Review:

    Tamra Davis, who a few years earlier gave us the gift that keeps on giving that is Billy Madison, directed Half Baked in 1998, a film that stars a pre-Chapelle’s Show Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins. Ever since he was young, Thurgood     ...
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    I Am Thor (Dark Sky Films) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Dark Sky Films
    Released on: January 19th, 2016.
    Director: Ryan Wise
    Cast: John Mikl Thor, Mike Favata, Keith Zazzi, Steve Price, Pantera
    Year: 2016
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    I Am Thor – Movie Review:

    Directed by Ryan Wise, I Am Thor starts in the early days of one Jon Mikl, later to become better known as Thor, the real life Canadian heavy metal superhero. We learn how Jon was obsessed with comic books and superheroes as a kid, even going to class dressed as Superman. From there, through his older brother, he got into     ...
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