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    Hercules And The Captive Women (The Film Detective) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: The Film Detective
    Released on: April 13th, 2021.
    Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
    Cast: Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Laura Efrikian
    Year: 1961
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    Hercules And The Captive Women – Movie Review:

    Also known as Hercules Conquers Atlantis (Ercole la conquista di Atlantide in its native Italy), Vittorio Cottafavi 1961 picture Hercules And The Captive Women stars beefy bodybuilder Reg Park as the titular hero, Hercules!     ...
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    Minor Premise (Utopia) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Utopia
    Released on: April 20th, 2021.
    Director: Eric Schultz
    Cast: Sathya Sridharan, Paton Ashbrook, Dana Ashbrook
    Year: 2020
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    Minor Premise – Movie Review:

    The feature-length directorial debut of filmmaker Eric Schultz, who co-wrote the script with producers Justin Moretto (an actual neuroscientist) and Thomas Torrey, 2020’s Minor Premise, based on a short film Schultz made a year or so earlier, the film introduces us to a young neuroscientist     ...
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    Mafia Vs. Ninja (Crash Cinema) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Crash Cinema
    Released on: February 22nd, 2005.
    Director: Robert Tai
    Cast: Silvio Azzolini, Wang Hsia, Charlema Hsu, Alexander Lou, Eugene Trammel
    Year: 1985
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    Mafia Vs. Ninja – Movie Review:

    When a traveling man named Jack Doe (Alexander Lo Rei of Ninja: The Final Duel) meets up with an assailant named Charlie Wu who mistakes him for a rapist, the two quickly let bygones be bygones and off they go to room together and take jobs at the local sewage plant. Eventually     ...
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    Jeremy (Fun City Editions) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Fun City Editions
    Released on: April 20th, 2021.
    Director: Arthur Barron
    Cast: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Leonardo Cimino
    Year: 1973
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    Jeremy – Movie Review:

    Jeremy is, quite simply, a very nice movie about two very nice teenagers who meet and quickly fall in love. It stars Robby Benson as the titular Jeremy Jones, a shy and fairly awkward kid who lives in New York City and is really into play his cello. He’s also into horses and basketball.     ...
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    Legend Of The Eight Samurai (Adness) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Adness
    Released on: February 8th, 2005.
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku
    Cast: Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mari Natsuki, Keiko Matsuzaka, Hiroko Yakushimaru
    Year: 1984
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    Legend Of The Eight Samurai – Movie Review:

    Sonny Chiba is something of a god in exploitation flick circles yet he has never attained the respect a Bruce Lee or a Jackie Chan gets without hesitation from the larger pool of film buffs. Perhaps it is due to the fact that his catalog is poorly represented on these shores and his     ...
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    Hitcher In the Dark (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: February 23rd, 2021.
    Director: Umberto Lenzi
    Cast: Joe Balogh, Josie Bissett, Jason Saucier, Robin Fox
    Year: 1989
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    Hitcher In the Dark – Movie Review:

    Released as The Hitcher 2 in Italy, Umberto Lenzi (credited as Humphrey Humbert) directed this 1989 thriller that begins when a young man named Mark Glazer (Joe Balogh) picks up a pretty blonde hitchhiker from the side of the road. She climbs     ...
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    Karate For Life (Adness) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Adness
    Released on: January 18th, 2005.
    Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
    Cast: Sonny Chiba, Kojiro Hongo, Hideo Murota, Masaru Shiga
    Year: 1977
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    Karate For Life – Movie Review:

    Sonny Chiba once again reprises his role of real life Karate master Masutatsu Oyama for the third (and final) time in Karate For Life, the fantastic third entry in the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy comprised of this film as well as Karate Bullfighter and Karate Bearfighter.

    The film opens with a scene involving Oyama's arrival at a small Karate Dojo. He shows up to lay the smack down on the school's Sensai, as he feels that his style is closer to dancing, than to real Karate.     ...
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    Karate Bearfighter (Adness) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Adness
    Released on: December 28th, 2004.
    Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
    Cast: Sonny Chiba, Jun Fujimaki, Elji Go, Masashi Ishibashi, Hideo Murota, Etsuko Shiomi
    Year: 1975
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    Karate Bearfighter – Movie Review:

    I have to be honest – this review is probably going to be more than a little bit biased. Having seen Karate Bearfighter in the early 2000s for the first time via a DVD of dubious legitimacy, the film stuck with me and quickly became a personal favorite. So much so in fact that I have the image from the Japanese one sheet permanently inked on my left arm and shoulder. Karate Bearfighter is one of my favorite films from my absolute all-time favorite     ...
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    Hunting Ground (Mondo Macabro) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Mondo Macabro
    Released on: April, 2021.
    Director: Jorge Grau
    Cast: Assumpta Serna, Víctor Valverde, Luis Hostalot, Montserrat Salvador, José Antonio García Romeu
    Year: 1983
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    Hunting Ground – Movie Review:

    Pulling from better known home invasion films like Straw Dogs and The Last House On The Left, Jorge Grau’s 1983 film Hunting Ground (or Coto de caza – Code Of Hunting in English - in its native Spain) stars Assumpta Serna as a lawyer named Adele. She makes     ...
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    Man Of The East (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber
    Released on: February 9th, 2021.
    Director: Enzo Barboni
    Cast: Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Harry Carey Jr., Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto
    Year: 1972
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    Man Of The East – Movie Review:

    Directed by Enzo Barboni (credited as E.B. Clucher), who struck box office gold with leading man Terence Hill on films like They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name and Crime Busters, 1972’s Man Of The East sees     ...
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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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