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SUMMER 2025 UPDATE

APOCALYPTIC FILMS

AA632 Mutant Action (93) aka: Accion Mutante   In the future, the beautiful people rule.  A band of mutants/handicaps, comprised of hunchbacks, cripples, a man with two heads, mental defects and others, abduct the pretty daughter of a wealthy man at a wedding party.  Escaping in their spaceship, they crash-land on Axturiax, a planet of no women.  Crazy violence, quirky characters, very dark gory comedy, intergalactic terrorism and (offensive to some) sexual humor.   English subtitles  BA 

CLASSIC HORROR AND SCI-FI FILMS

AA479 Battle of the Rails, The (46) aka: La bataille du rail  Featuring the saga of French Railroad workers who are part of an organized resistance during WWII Nazi occupation.  Risking their lives, Camargue and his deputy Athos manage the network in their sector.  Partly financed by the 'actual resistance' in an attempt to dispel the notion the French had capitulated too easily to their invaders.  This is what the French were dealing with under Nazi oppression, brought to light quickly right after the war ended.  French with English subtitles  BA

AA458 Blizzard, The (1923) aka: Gunnar Hedes Saga   In Sweden, Gunner Hedes herds and sells reindeer.  When injured while driving the herd over the frozen Arctic, Gunner becomes mentally incapacitated.  The film is incomplete, this is all that remains.  The montage sequence includes a painting coming to life, a nasty dream sequence, and a bizarre animal-phobic hallucination.  There's an astonishing river crossing where the reindeer cross a wide stretch of river.  Swedish Silent Film runs under an hour and has English translation

AA619 Escort Girl (41) At these nightclubs, women turn tricks as men pay for their services.  June is dating a district attorney that is investigating the business owners, not knowing her mother helps run the girls.  There are a few scenes of the escort girls lounging about in their underwear, and we also get a brief striptease where off comes a top, pretty explicit for 1941.  Naughty Campy Fun.  BA

W509 Go and Get It (1920) Had been looking for this one for awhile.  A gorilla man monster with the brain of a human tangled with a heroic junior reporter involved in journalistic rivalries and of course there is skullduggery afoot.  The ape monster man looks quite creepy and weird, better than the standard monkey-suit stuff that would follow.  Creative use of make-up at hand like Lon Chaney would have done. 

AA551 Hitler Gang, The (44) Bobby Watson as Adolph Hitler in this film about his rise to power.  Some of the facts are true, but there is also an amount of propaganda, missing Hitler's personality completely, mirroring gangster noir.  Of course, Hitler became another person in the eyes of American's after the war ended and America knew the true extent of his horrors.  Bobby Watson was the 'go-to' Hitler guy, playing Hitler about ten times in different films and projects.  Wow, typecast as Hitler.  Poor guy.  He died in 1965 at age 76 in Hollywood, killed by a Jewish mob who confused him for Hitler.  No, I made that up, his death was undisclosed.  Since he was a comedian, I thought he would get a kick out of it.  BA

AA451 Hot Rod Rumble (57) aka: Road Devils  Eccentric, Brando-acting rip-off Arny (Richard Hartunian, who was once slated to be the next James Dean) alienates the rest of the gang at the Hot Rod Club, causing his gal Terri (Leigh Warden) to romance Hank, another club member, who is killed in a car accident, while Arny is blamed.  Arny is beaten up, things going south for the budding rebel, but we all know who the real culprit of the accident is, Ray (Wright King), who's day is coming.  Hartunian died at age 39 in 1972, bailing on the whole 'acting' thing in 1961.  BA

X568 House by the River (50) aka: Floodtide  aka: El fantasma de Río   Novelist Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) makes his sexual moves on the maid and kills her when she refuses to comply.  Byrne, with the assistance of his disabled brother John, puts her body in a sack and dumps it in the river.  Stephen is fine going about his usual day to day.  John however, is not, and takes to drinking.  John is also the primary suspect as his shifty brother Stephen implicates him.  The sack bobs to the surface, blonde hair....  BA

AA621 Mad Youth (39) aka: Girls of the Underworld   A rich older woman feasts on male escorts.  One of them (her favorite) starts seeing her daughter Marian on the sly.  There's enough to go around girls.  But alas, mother hogs 'The Count' (as he is called) and Marian heads for Pittsburg to be with her friend Helen who is caught up in a prostitution ring.  Can they be saved from this den of sin?  BA

W512 Mr. Washington Goes to Town (41) In the 1930's and 1940's, many theaters were segregated.  Specially tailored for a black audience , this film features a black-actor spin silliness of what passed for zany spooky comedy in 1941.   The movie goes off-the-rails with a kitchen sink mentality including an invisible man, a talking parrot, a headless man, a gorilla and much more.  Mantan Moreland and F.E. Miller star.  BA

W524 Murder at Dawn (32) aka: The Death Ray   The original 'Frankenstein' would have been a whole different monster without the creative efforts of Kenneth Strickfaden, the king of electrical special effects.  This would be the second film that used this technology.  This is an old dark house mystery with secret passages, dark cloaked figures, science fiction science, trap doors, disappearing corpses, a sinister caretaker and a funny scared black taxi driver.  The film runs under an hour. 

W513 Mysterious Island, The (1929) aka:  Den hemlighetsfulla ön   In Color!  Straying wildly from the Jules Verne source material by combining them, maintaining the fantastical science fiction/fantasy elements, The Mysterious Island 1929 in Color is quite a feast for the eyes to fans of ancient science fiction/fantasy films.  The special effects are interesting, and state-of-the-art for the era.  Here we have the obligatory giant squid, a land of dragons and an undiscovered H.P. Lovecraft-like fish-people race of midgets who like to drink blood.  Made as sound entered the scene (talkies) we get a little bit of silence, and some sound as well.  Jules Verne did not live to see this film, ,dying in 1905 at age 77.  He was a little man at 5' 5", but managed to write some of the biggest science/fiction fantasy stories of all time, still used to this day.   BA

AA547 Power of the Whistler (45) Richard Dix returns as a man with amnesia after an accident.  A woman tries to help him.  He turns out to be a good cook, but everything he touches seems to die.  Wait until they figure out who he is, and his true purpose.  The man is bad news all the way around.  Do not let him near your pets!  A psycho thriller with a thunder and lightning finale.  BA

AA549 Secret of the Whistler (46) Greed and betrayal as a cheating husband (Richard Dix) waits for his wealthy ailing wife to die so he can marry a blonde greedy material girl (Leslie Brooks).  The wife recovers and, disappointed, he poisons her.  But there are twists ahead, guilt and comeuppance.   BA

W500 Stampede (30) aka: Africa in Flames   Filmed in 1929, released in 1930.  A little black baby in the brush watches as a lion attacks and aggressively devours his half-topless mother.  Boy was that lion hungry.  A large snake dangles above, ready to eat the boy.  Black natives dressed in white come to the rescue, a topless woman in white rescuing the boy from being swallowed whole. 

AA627 Teenage Devil Dolls (55) aka: One Way Ticket to Hell   Cassandra is a heroin addict with a record and we backtrack to see her story and how she fell so low.  Cassandra's choice of friends at high school turn out to be very clean looking delinquent bikers.  Now in with them, all drugs are on the table for consumption.  It was only marijuana at first, the gateway to hell.  Her grades drop.  She is no longer eligible for college.  Narrated is this one way ticket.... 

W501 Two Monks (34) aka: Dos monjes  Monk Javier is acting violently in the gothic monastery and fellow monk Juan believes he is possessed by demons.  Javier chases down Juan and hits him on the cranium with a sturdy crucifix.  But what has brought on all this madness.  A woman? The story is told.  In Spanish with English subtitles

AA550 Whistler, The (44) Depressed after the death of his wife, a man hires an assassin to kill him, but doesn't want to know when or where.  Life goes on and the man finds that his wife is alive.  But the man he paid to hire his assassin is dead, and he knows not who is out to kill him at his misinformed behest.  Richard Dix, Gloria Stuart and J.  Carrol Naish as 'The Killer'.  Nice suspense, makes the most of it's 50 minute running time.  BA

DINOSAURS, LOST LANDS, SWORD AND SANDAL, PEPLUM AND FANTASY FILMS

Q646 AD Project EP 1 (06) Here on planet earth a mysterious society monitors the actions of aliens among us.   A man has entered a protected area and he is thrown into convulsions.  Hypnosis.  Revealing a door that crosses into an alternate temporal dimension.  Some creative camera shots spin out of control and become part of the plot somehow.  This is a UFO film, made with limited funds that does include the lights descending from the sky while people stand and watch in a big field.  Will the aliens land and come to us?  Widescreen  Italian with English subtitles

AA494 Attack of the Super Monsters (83) Animated feature about the return of the dinosaurs who are here to destroy mankind.  They never died off, but had retreated to the center of the earth.  Now they are being used by diabolically tyrannical Tyranis who uses the mutated dinosaurs descendants as super monsters!  Mankind is doomed.  Or is it?

W511 Frankie's Aliens (57) aka: Frankie no uchujin   Rocket experiments failing miserably seem to have disturbed the natural order of space as a strange saucer flying at super sonic speed is spotted darting across the night skies.  'I come from an alien world.  We are afraid that earthlings will destroy the universe'.   This message (one of) the standard in 1950's 'invasion' films.  Frankie is picked up by the aliens and learns their way of life.  Can a compromise be reached? Plot twists and really funny moments in this light-hearted science fiction from Japan with typical special effects in their cultural tradition.  In Japanese with English subtitles

W510 Kliou, the Killer (1935) A tiger (Kliou) has been attacking the villages, killing people and livestock in a savage region.  Khan, of the Moi tribe, is severely mauled by the killer Kliou.  Witch doctors claim that Khan will only survive if Kliou experiences a bloody injury as well.  Two go into the jungles to hunt Kliou.  Topless native women adds to the fun.  This is not a documentary, but told in flashback by a white hunter, the cast does not speak because they are actually primitive natives in the wilds of Viet Nam being filmed for a movie.  Black and White

AA565 Legend of the Sacred Stone (00) aka: Sheng shi chuan shuo   Martial Arts Fantasy told entirely with puppetry!  The craftsmanship is astonishing, the creativity and skill, unparalleled.  The ghoulish puppets, the skeletor-like guy, the squirting green blood....  swordfights, exploding stalagmites, fast-action fighting, bloody red death with sad music.......  More surprises to come.  From Taiwan with English subtitles  BA

AA536 Lilac Ball, The (88) aka: The Purple Ball  aka: Lilovyy shar   All manner of flying saucers and bizarre special effects.  Corpses on a ship in outer space.  The hairy four-armed Chewbacca rip-off guy is hysterical.  I think he is a bear man, but he just looks like a guy in a bad wool suit.  You can see the strings on the vine creatures.  Aliens.  A spaceship that looks like a large acorn.  Laser beams that burn you alive.  A flying carpet.  A bird creature that communicates and resembles something the designers of 'The Giant Claw' would have conceived.  A princess.  A sorcerer.  Is that a kitchen sink?   Russian with English subtitles

AA594 Little Magician, The (77) aka: Der kleine Zauberer und die große Fünf  Oliver comes from a family of practicing conjurers (long before Harry Potter was around) who receives an 'F' on his magic exam.  Oliver scurries about wildly trying to change his failing grade to a passing one.  Maybe he will learn a lesson in honesty?  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stop a bully with the snap of your fingers?

W505 Lord From Another Star, The (48) aka: The Man From Another Star  aka: Der Herr vom andern Stern  Simply through personal concentration, a man has the ability to travel throughout the entire universe.  Passing Earth, he becomes distracted and boom, that is where he lands.  Immediately, he is targeted by the police, who consider him a danger.  The man comes with strange powers....  German with English subtitles

AA553 Man-Eater of Kumaon (48) aka: La tigre del Kumaon  aka: Le Mangeur d’Hommes  Based in truth, Hollywood's version.  In the Kumaon District of India, comes a hunter (Wendell Corey) to kill a tiger he wounded previously  that has been terrorizing and feeding on the villagers.  The poor beast has been slowed down due to injuries from the careless hunter, but people are easy to catch and kill.  The tiger becomes mythic.   Some exciting scenes of tigers attacking humans, and another staged tiger versus crocodile sequence.  Also starring Sabu.  Did you know in India tigers eat hundreds of people every year but are a protected species?  BA

AA595 Moonstone Gem, The (83) The evil Baron threatens to steal the most precious gem of all....  happiness.  Under a large rock mountain, across a moat guarded by fierce trolls, down 960 stairs, through 26 doors and 15 vaults sits the most cherished and wonderful of all national treasures....  The Moonstone Gem.  A puppet show- runs a bit under an hour. 

W507 Mystery of the Eternal Night, The (56) aka: Tayna Vechnoy Nochi  aka: Geheimnis der ewigen Nacht   Science Fiction from Russia - Plant life rises from the depths, unstoppable, after an underwater explosion.  Is this Atlantis?  Inhabited not with any kind of human hybrid but instead a hub for undiscovered brightly colored radioactive plants and strange fish.  This resistance to radiation, combined with the rapid growth, poses a threat to mankind.   Russian with English subtitles  In Color  BA

AA615 Pharaoh (66) aka: Faraon  Made in Poland, Egypt and more.  Much better than 'Cleopatra', this depiction of ancient Egypt takes a realistic approach.  This is the tale of  an apocryphal pharaoh Ramses Xlll whose obsessive effort to seize power from the theocratic (the swamp) clutches of the clergy is met with resistance.  Can he take his place and right the direction of Egypt before the clergy's actions change Egypt forever? Dirty priests, gold, secret unfavorable treaties, squandering of great wealth.....  The Pharaoh will foment the masses against the clergy...  Incredible production design, you will believe that you are in ancient Egypt proving CGI is not always an improvement in this strange future world we now reside.  Fantastic Uncut Sharp Color Widescreen   In Polish with English subtitles version 2 hours and 32 minutes  BA

AA605 Pharaoh (66) aka: Faraon   Widescreen English Dubbed  2 hours 13 minutes: This version of the excellent Polish film is dubbed into English but not as sharp as subtitled version.  BA 

AA598 Pirates of Capri, The (49) aka:  I pirati di Capri   In the year 1799, the people of Naples are badly in need of a liberator.  Swashbuckling pirate Count de Amalfi (alias 'Scirocco') is a Zorro sort of character, serving the Queen, who is the sister of Marie Antoinette, kept ignorant of her people's treatment by the evil Baron von Holstein, and she is so terrified after her sister was beheaded, the mere mention of 'the people' throws her into a panic.  Sirocco (Louis Hayward- the only one to dub his own voice) now knows he must take down the Baron with his band of pirates.  BA

AA599 Princess Xuxa and the Tramps (89) aka: A Princesa Xuxa e os Trapalhões  A planet, dominated by Rata the Conqueror, is where Princess Sharon is kept without knowledge of the acts of Rata.  Rata has expelled the elders and enslaved the children of the kingdom.  Now it is up to three lazy princes and a knight to overthrow Rata.  Science fiction comedy loaded with sight gags from Brazil.  After being smothered with Star Wars crap for decades, give this one a shot.  Portuguese with English subtitles  BA

AA590 Ruslan and Ludmila (72) Part One  aka: Ruslan i Lyudmila 1  aka: Il castello incantato 1  A fantastical Russian sword and sorcery epic with massive scale special effects.  A fantasy film, a Russian 'Lord of the Rings' (without the ring) and so much more.  Much thought went into this visual feast.  The Giant's Head, The Fearsome Forest, The Lair of the Evil Dwarf, The Evil Witch, Mario Bava inspired lighting .....  Russian with English subtitles  BA

AA591 Rusland and Ludmila (72) Part Two  aka: Ruslan i Lyudmila 2  aka: Il castello incantato 2   The battlefield is ablaze.  Wagon wheels are rolled down a hill on fire.  Heads are whopped off, one after another from horseback, one man is cut in half and held high, still talking.....  This is not a gore, but a fantasy film with forest maidens and an ugly old witch that can transform herself into a beauty.  Much of the special effects remind one of Ray Harryhausen type visuals, the colors incredible.  Miniatures, back screen paintings, a tiger attack....  Russian with English subtitles  BA

W506 Secret of Two Oceans, The (57) aka: ori okeanis saidumloeba  aka: Le mystère des deux océans   Science Fiction from Russia.  Enemy agents of mankind have set up secret automated facilities in both the Atlantic, and the Pacific oceans with the sole purpose of sinking ships.  On a mysterious island, which displays Easter Island type statues, there exists a fantastical lair that would make even the richest Bond villain blush.  This is from where they launch their deadly torpedoes.  Plenty of gadgets and sci-fi goodies to entertain this familiar mish-mash, with no credit to Jules Verne.   Two disc set counts as two as the tale is spun in two parts.  Russian with English subtitles  BA

AA603 Shadow of the Eagle (50) aka: L'ombre de l'aigle   18th century Venice: Treaties, alliances, double-crosses, betrayals, romance, swashbuckling, period costumes.  Some nice splashes of violence and sadism like when Valentina Cortese (as the Princess) is tied and whip-lashed and a man has his head sunk in a bucket of molten steel.  Richard Greene is Count Alexi Orloff.  Also starring Greta Gynt and Binnie Barnes as Catherine, Empress of Russia.  BA

AA600 Shape of Things to Come, The (79) Man has set up colonies on the moon in a future where earth is uninhabitable.  They are soon under the grip of 'Omus' the Robot Master (Jack Palance).  The opposing side have a little robot dog named 'Sparks'.  Awww.  Some laugh out loud moments with goofy model spaceships and some pretty bad special effects.  Touted in 'Starlog' magazine before it came out as 'the next big thing'.  Model miniatures, wacky disco, special effects so bad you will be amazed they kept them in the film and more fun.  The army of robots look like marching garbage cans.  Hyper space!  Purple Blood!   Also starring Barry Morse and Carol Lynley.  Widescreen  BA

AA537 Shinobi Demon: Duel in the Wind (70) aka: Haunted Samurai  aka: Kaze no tengu   A brutal enforcer for the Yagu ninja clan must track down deserters to his clan and kill them.  One, his brother-in-law.  After, in a fit of despair, his sister hangs herself.  He still is not finished with killing, but the death of his sister has changed him, and now he is the one who is hunted.  In the movie's wildest moment, an army of topless female ninjas rise out of the water and spit daggers, and actually swordfight underwater!  Widescreen  Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA601 Snow Devils (65) aka: Devil Men from Space  aka: La morte viene dal pianeta Aytin  A mysterious warming of the ice caps.  In the Himalaya's a weather station is decimated by a race of Yeti's, snow-dwelling ape creatures with plans to melt the ice with their big machine equipment, destroy mankind, then refreeze everything, or something......  These Yeti's are really aliens from outer space!  Bad special effects, laser guns, kitschy costumes and set designs, bad hair....  So much fun.  Catnip for 60's kids.  BA

W502 Temple of the White Elephant (64) aka: Sandok, il Maciste della giungla  Directed by Umberto Lenzi.  The Sikkim rebels belong to the deadly sect of the white elephant.  When they capture an English Lieutenant and the daughter of a Viceroy, Dick Ramsey (Sean Flynn, son of Errol, dead by then) is sent into the deepest jungles to rescue them.  Action adventure with incredible locations also starring Marie Versini.  Italian with English subtitles  BA

AA607 Welcome to Blood City (77) Memory erased captives find themselves in a century old cow town where only the strong survive.  It's a 'Westworld' training farm for killers controlled by a 'Big Brother' super computer operated by Sheriff Fredlander (Jack Palance).  People are used as pawns.  The ones who have the aptitude to kill are the victors, or are they? Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar both must fight their fate!  Directed by Peter Sasdy  BA

EDGAR WALLACE FILMS

AA448 Attempt to Kill (61) After firing one of his employees, a man of wealth is almost murdered.  Of course, he suspects who is behind this, but they learn the man he had fired has been killed.  Freda Jackson as the abandoned wife and Patricia Mort as the secretary who will scare you when she reveals her true nature.  Filmed by the lovely river Thames in the sunshine.  Also with Derek Farr and Tony Wright. 

AA443 Backfire!  (62) A cosmetic company on the edge of ruin finds the only way out.  Arson!  Owner Mitchell Logan (Alfred Burke) decides collecting on the insurance will make his loss painless.  Sometimes as we all know, the best laid plans of mice and men can....  backfire!  This is not the first time we watch someone become undone by their own stupidity.  Blame it on the cleaning lady!  Also starring Zena Marshall and Derek Francis.  Zena Marshall was romanced by Sean Connery in 'Dr. No' the same year. 

AA447 Clue of the Silver Key (61) A rich old blind money lender doesn't want his niece to marry a handsome penniless painter.  Dime a dozen these guys.  The old man is murdered, and so is an alcoholic waiter, shot dead in the street with a large sum of money on his person.  Bernard Lee plays a crusty inspector investigating both cases.  A clue-dropping mystery that also stars Jennifer Daniel. 

AA446 Man Detained (61) Frank, a safecracker, steals a fortune from a safe at the Maple Photographic Studio.  The theft is reported but only the petty cash, not the full amount.  The burglar wonders why the stolen cash is not being reported.  This stolen loot is so hot, no one wants to talk about it.  When Mr.  Maple is found murdered, Frank becomes a suspect.  But a twist.....  Michael Coles, Elvi Hale and more star. 

AA445 Never Back Losers (61) Horse race corruption as two rival gangs try to rig the outcomes.  When a horse jockey is killed in a 'car crash' an insurance agent is sent to investigate.  One of the gang worries the insurance company won't pay out and takes counter measures.  Patrick Magee is the villain Ben Black.  BA

AA492 Racetrack Murders, The (64) aka: The Seventh Victim  aka: Das 7. Opfer   Listed #D458 in an English dubbed version (see catalog for mini-descript), this is a nice sharp print in original German language with English subtitles.  One of the best with all the bells and whistles including hot dames.  BA

AA444 Sinister Man, The (61) It was a student of kung fu who killed the Oxford Professor they find dead in the Thames.  Stillman of Scotland Yard investigates the homicide which also involves the theft of three ancient artifacts from the far east country of Kytang.  Plenty of red herrings and a hysterical final fight scene that looks like a couple of drunks fighting in the back yard with easily spotted doubles.  John Bentley and more star  BA

EXPLOITATION FILMS

AA579 Adolescents, The (75) aka: Las Adolescentes  With Koo Stark as 'Ana' a shy boarding school student, who goes to London with a few other girls and they become targets of some exploitation photographers who want their young naked bods in their skin magazines, the operation run by Mr. Hansen (Jack Taylor!) .  Jimmy (Anthony Andrews) smooth-talks Ana back to his apartment, where hidden cameras are placed.  Something strange happens, they are being filmed as they have sex!  Ana, back at boarding school is now the cover girl for a sex rag.  Later, a black guy rips off her clothes and violently rapes her while a pervert snaps away with his camera.  The girls are knockouts, some of the nudity and sexual situations have been noticeably edited back in from other more complete prints.   Extensive location footage of London right in the middle of the 1970's.  Lust, Sex, Shame, Expulsion.  Maria Perschy, Cristina Galbo, Susan Player, Victoria Vera and more.  The kicker trivia.  Koo Stark was a sometime girlfriend of Prince Andrew in the 1970's, but after starring in 'Emily' and 'Marquis De Sade's Justine' she fell out of favor.  Knowing what we now know, think about it.   English dubbed print!  BA

AA588 Dirty Story, A (77) aka: Une sale histoire   Michael Lonsdale (Bond villain in 'Moonraker') stars as a man who recites a story about when he was a young man and found a peephole in the ladies toilet in a small cafe.  He relates how this closely guarded secret became his prime obsession.  We see the same story twice, first from the actor doing the dialogue, then the real thing from a documentary.  Filthy talk, misogyny, insistence on having dignity while spying.  French with English subtitles - Under an hour total

AA620 Hail Mary (85) aka: Je vous salue, Marie   A modern retelling of the virgin birth? Marie likes to play basketball and finds out she is pregnant but has had sex with no one.  Sure she didn't.  Joseph, her boyfriend, is schooled by the angel Gabriel, you know, because sometimes things like this happen.  Strange professor philosophy, the life impulse to breed, love, copulate, reproduce...  an 'alien impulse' (huh, what?).  The professor is confused about life, and yet, he teaches.  The movie suggests we are creations of a life-force that enjoys watching our plight as humans.  Beyond this pessimism, lots of nudity with some really hot babes, so call me shallow.  Right or wrong, a movie made, a human experience.  Pope John Paul ll was pissed, and so were many others. 

AA569 High (68) Explicit sex scenes in this tawdry tale about a young drug-addicted couple who sell their asses for drug money.  Pot smoking, color tints, black and white sequences mixed with color scenes, casual non-erotic sex, awkward dancing, random uninhibited nudity, bad bad hippie music, snappy editing, panhandling, beauty parlor makeover....  What's strange, this is very light on sex and drug use, instead, the day-to-days of their meager existence and how they get on, made easier for them because they never seem to hit skid row.  Finally, an explosion of violence, and laughter after killing.  Beware of those who have nothing to lose.  Banned in Canada when it came out, presumably from the loose morals depicted.

AA521 Horny Diver: Tight Shellfish (85) aka: Zetsurin ama: Shimari-gai   Horny Diver!  You've been down too long in the midnight sea....  A man is sent to a small fishing village to seduce the women, and trick them into signing over their land to his boss, a greedy business tycoon.  Everything is going swimmingly until the girls realize what is happening.......  Can you do the backstroke?  Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA622 Pleasure Party (75) aka: Une partie de plaisir   Joining 'Swinger's Massacre' in the 'swapping gone wrong' genre.  What is titled as a sexy romp spins into a nightmare of a domineering man who forces his wife into something that destroys their marriage and his next relationship ends in tragedy.  Paul Gegauff is Philippe, a man obsessed, his wife Esther is played by his real life wife Daniele Gegauff.  Gegauff wrote the story based on his experiences.  His wife left him and in 1983 at the age of 61 he was stabbed to death by his second wife in Norway.  Life imitates art.  Widescreen   French with English subtitles  BA

AA625 Run Swinger Run!  (67) aka: Nude on the Run  Laura (Gretchen Rudolph) runs away from home after being raped by some creep and is thrown into troubles immediately.  Selling drugs turns to Laura becoming a woman of the night, the day, whenever.  But a sniper is taking shots.  Run Swinger, Run!  Generous helpings of foxy 60's chicks in skimpy lingerie and nudity.  Gretchen Rudolph's knockers should have won an Academy Award.  BA

AA626 Sensuous Nurse, The (76) aka:  L'infermiera  aka:  I Will If You Will  Ursula Andress is the nurse hired to take care of a man with a heart condition by the greedy heirs who want him to get so aroused by her beauty he eventually collapses and dies.  He does indeed become smitten.  Ursula Andress appears full frontal in a number of scenes, a true goddess.  And as if that wasn't enough, another 'Bond' girl, Luciana Paluzzi shows off her ta ta's in a most frenetic fashion.  Characters are mostly exaggerated caricatures including Jack Palance in a particularly pervy role.  Very politically incorrect fun!  BA

AA587 Sex Freedom in Germany (70) aka: Wunderland der Liebe - Der große deutsche Sexreport   A chubby man describes his experiences as a male prostitute.  Anti-Christian weirdoes sacrifice a live pig, spilling blood and guts on naked lost women.  Oh, they're artists.  Sure.  That's just gross you sickos.  They seem like nice people.  Hah!   A defrocked priest is forced to resign his post we are told, after being caught in a hotel room with a boy.  What he does next is even worse!  A girl whips herself, two women discover they are lesbians.  We have seen black face, how about complete black body?  Some belly laughs.   Dubbed into English in Liverpool to comic effect.

AA629 Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn, The (77) aka: La vergine, il toro e il capricorno   Wayward husband Gianna forsakes the sensual favors of his beautiful wife Gioia (Edwige Fenech)  and seduces a series of women.  He can't stop and they all want him, why, I'm not sure.  What a fool!  Steaming mad, Gioia gets even when she goes to the seductive lothario Patrizio to get her revenge.  Very sexy nude scenes with Fenech, like when she orgasms with Patrizio while on the phone with her husband and he is talking on the other end, clueless.  Widescreen English Dubbed  BA

AA566 Way Out Topless (67) Going to a Go-Go!  Join me, and we will examine topless dancers and strippers in the wonderful cities of Baltimore Maryland and Washington DC.  Hourglass waists and torpedo tits are the order of the day.  The girls are taken to a modern gym to lift weights, getting those flabby thighs under control.  Some of the lifting, is topless.  Let's face it, that's how we imagine the girls at the gym looking as we are pumping away.  Don't worry, the stripping is coming!  My how times have changed.  Bodacious Ta-Ta's, Good and Plenty.  BA

Q971 Wife Swapping Italian Style (69) aka: Cuori solitari  aka: Lonely Hearts  Stefano (Ugo Tognazzi) and Giovanna (Senta Berger) spend the summer in their house on Lake Como.  He is 45, she is young, both are bored.  A young couple pitches a tent on their property and swims in the lake naked.  Stefano places ads for swinging behind the back of Giovanna.  Later they try, but with every couple they meet, a red flag comes up and they bail.  Later when a couple with culture as themselves arrives.....  Rare English dub print  BA

S315 Wilbur and the Baby Factory (70) aka: The Pleasure Farm  The choice for the young man in the story? Get drafted and go to war, or father 2000 children for a superior future race.  See the title.  Wilber is now under contract and is being physically and chemically conditioned for his two year task.  His predecessor, known to some as 'the bull' was kept under lock and key, and has committed suicide.  Wilber is kept drugged, and he escapes...  BA

AA630 Yiptease (various) Various clips of Amy Yip in various stages of undress and scenes of Amy doing her thing, compiled some time ago by some folks out of Miami, back in the day when Amy Yip was a highly celebrated queen of Category III Hong Kong films. 

EXTREME HORROR & GORE FILMS

F875 Absolute Punishment: The Ultimate Death Experience 2 (98) We can't say we've all been there.  Not yet anyway.  But these folks have sadly passed this mortal coil and traveled beyond.  Some of their deaths, we actually see.  A woman is murdered on a Spanish TV show, a press conference suicide, a child molester is shot at an airport and more archive footage too terrible to mention. 

F657 Adult Animation Shorts (various) First: The Censor (80): Faceless censors watch a sexual act on film, all making comments and being offended.  The comedy part?  Everybody is claymation, including the film characters!  Time to vote for a rating, or an outright ban!  Second: Desire Pie (76): This is a cartoon of a truly hardcore nature with some weird freakish touches.  Three: Covered in Fleas (88) Four: Malice in Wonderland (82) Surreal, Sexual and Utterly Terrifying revisiting of 'Alice in Wonderland'.  Five: Truly amazing downbeat claymation madness with a dead burglar, a seedy bar and a drunken vision of sex and death.   Six: Wild Times in the Wildwoon (80) Road trip with five young men going to Atlantic City.  Seven: Random Positions (83): Filmed with real photo clips and fast/slow motion.  Bar conversations with men and women and bizarre dancing.  Eight: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (81) Short, poorly animated sexualized version of the tale with Grandma boning the wolf, it gets even dirtier.....  All on one disc and running under an hour. 

9875 Adventures of Electric Rod Boy (87) aka: Adventure of Denchu-Kozo   A boy is bullied at school because he has an electric rod growing out his back.  Better his back than his ass.  Moma, his female classmate, comes to his rescue, and he shares with her his 'time machine'.  He travels to the future where he encounters a vampire gang that is hunting the adult future Moma.  Moma's explains to him that she has been waiting for him, knew he was coming from the past.  Electric Rod Boy has a job to do...  save planet earth!  Fast-paced running under one hour.   Japanese with English subtitles

AA657 Appointment with Fear (85) aka: Angriff aus dem Jenseits   According to legend, Attis, King of the Woods/Egyptian King of Nature, sacrificed his child for immortality, free to wander the earth at will.  Attis needs an infant a year to survive.  A man with the powers of astral projection uses his powers from behind his asylum bars.  So when he is spotted out committing atrocities, he is not really there at all.  A pawn of Attis, to make his goal, when really he could have saved time and just went to Planned Parenthood.  Can a group of teenagers and an inquisitive detective save a dying woman's infant from being the next victim of Attis?  Will the evil be stopped?  Troubled production with a lot going on, too many hands in the plot, makes for compelling viewing for psychotronic movie fans.  BA

AA477 Bestije (77) aka: Beasts   A woman arrives at a forsaken and doomed floating island, bringing excitement and a breath of fresh air to the inhabitants.  All emotions are accelerated as love, hate, passion and fear begins to spread.  Is she a witch?  A seductress?  A liberator?  Man will forget his dignity and become a beast.   Pessimistic Serbian/Croation in the long tradition.   English subtitles and slightly Widescreen  BA

AA561 Cassandra (87) Cassandra is having unsettling nightmare visions, connected to her past, her present, worrying her parent's who harbor a dark family secret.  Cassandra's mother is a fashion model, her father (Shane Briant), an adulterer.  Things get worse when it seems she is being watched, and murders that occur, Cassandra can see them in her mind.  The film borrows from familiar territory, but since we are in Australia, it all feels new.  Nice stalk and kill, effective nightmare jumps....  a supernatural spooky slasher.  From the director of 'Long Weekend' Colin Eggleston.  BA

AA578 Chinese Torture Chamber Story, A (94) aka: Moon ching sap dai huk ying   When a woman is accused of murdering her husband, a confession court uses violent methods of torture that make the scenes in 'Bloodsucking Freaks' tame in comparison.  Balancing the film out (to what, I can't say regarding to) is plenty of sex, rape and nudity.  Ass flogging to the point of bruised and bloody, naked flying martial arts sex with spin-action climax ('that was the very best screw I ever had' she says), woman whipped, blood-soaked sex....  But who is the real villain?   English language dubbed  BA

AA564 Desolation Angels (82) aka: Fair Game  Three well-to-do cute young schoolgirls (who all look like they are in their twenties) pick the wrong weekender house for a getaway.  Menaced by two carloads of scary dudes on the road, they make their escape and arrive unharmed only to find out the madmen are part of the territory.  Also arriving Pam (Karen West, Australian Playboy) fleeing with the loot after a check forgery scheme.  The bad guys are here to kill.  Pam gets doused with petrol and....   Upgrade!   BA

AA493 Honeymoon Horror (82) aka: Texas Honeymoon Horror  Innocent couples have arrived at the secluded rustic lover's paradise 'Honeymoon Lodge' for a weekend of romance.  What they get instead is an experience of blood and terror!  People begin to disappear.  A crispy face-burned killer is on the loose in the rural slasher clone tradition.  We see his origin in the opening prologue.  Some interesting camera work, a few nice kills.   Not 'Honeymoon of Horror” 1985, or any other, this is a film never listed before.  BA

W522 Lost and Found #9: Turbo Comp (97) Practical joke opens this mix-disc of madness, followed by movie clips and then real-life in your face awkward moments on the streets with regular people who are messed with mercilessly.  Then some old-fashioned footage of looters.  Squirrels are shot and they explode in slow motion.  Some O.J Bronco footage.  Geraldo show deals with racists.  Drug Addicts.  Hookers.  More wild clips to come.  Sort of like the other series of clips known as  'Lost and Found'

W516 Lysogeny: Noise Noise Sandwich (0?) What Offends You Most?  Exploding Squirrels?  Sado-Knife Torture?  Solo Fecal Consumption?  This 40 minute 'shock' comedy is the graphic portrait of the Texas noise band Lysogeny.  Take a look into the insane, non-professional, drug provoked realm of American noise.  Guaranteed to piss off everybody in the house if played loud.  A complete mess! 

AA654 Mosquito (76) aka: Bloodlust  aka: Mosquito der Schänder  aka: Mosquito the Rapist   An accountant, deaf and dumb, with a doll fixation, wants to snuggle with a nasty hooker and she kicks him out.  Later, on his wimpy little yellow scooter, he visits a mausoleum, cuts into a dead woman's breast and drinks the blood.  He is Mosquito.  Later he returns, plucking out the eyes of a female corpse, taking them home.  Back again, this time he cuts off a dead woman's head.  He writes 'Mosquito' on the wall with a big red sharpie.  When a girl falls to her death from a rooftop, he digs her up, panics and runs.  He experiments drinking blood from the neck's of his dolls with a two-pronged straw.  Now he is trying it out on a real corpse......later, brutal bloody murder...  Surreal sick horror dubbed into English and Widescreen  BA

AA653 Murder Secret, The (88) aka: Don't Be Afraid of Aunt Martha  aka: The Broken Mirror  aka: Non aver paura della zia Marta   Richard (Gabriele Tinti) gets a letter telling him his aunt is getting out of the nuthouse.  Together with his family, they travel to her country house to meet her.   The caretaker greets Richard, informs him his aunt is delayed, and warns the family to not open the door to the basement.  Richard foolishly opens the door.   Next, one-by-one the butchering begins.  What dreadful secret is about to be revealed?  Forced to kiss a maggot spitting corpse, decapitation by chainsaw and more enjoyable scenes of horror.  Directed by Mario Bianchi and supervised by Lucio Fulci.  BA

AA634 Mystery Files (96) aka: Qi yi dang an   A trilogy of tales, each with a tale of murder, each with a twist of some sort, there the mystery.  1. Friends   2. Strange Murder Case   3. Midnight Witness - Each one has an occurrence, followed by a mystery, that is solved, or are they?   Widescreen  Cantonese with English Subtitles

AA612 New Wife's Private Parts: Forced Caress (91) aka: Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami  Psycho creep doctor lives alone with his crippled daughter in an abandoned clinic.  He hates women, feels they are inferior.  He kidnaps pretty ones and takes them to the clinic for torture, and trains them to do his bidding.  'I'll cure you in no time' he says, approaching with a loaded syringe.  'But there's nothing wrong with me!' the bound babe in wedding dress insists.  We see the back-story.  Things get pretty rough with his playing, seriously cringe.  His goal is to transform them into 'very good girls' so they can lick his toes, and play with his crippled daughter.  Face sitting, masturbation and squishy sounds and finally, comeuppance.  Japanese with English subtitles

AA649 Night God Screamed, The (71) aka: Quella notte in casa Coogan   Harlan is a Manson-like madman, leading a group of fanatic followers.  They crucify a preacher, hanging him from a cross in his own church.  Harlan is convicted, vowing vengeance on the preacher's wife, the judge and the jury.  The 'family' followers of this killer cult descend upon an isolated country house to further this mission of unprovoked terror.  A Hunger For Power....  A Thirst For Blood!  A Night of Unspeakable Horror!  The age of Charles Manson and one of the films inspired by real life events.  BA

X950 Night of Bad Taste: Volume One (various)   We have volume two of Night of Bad Taste already listed with it's dozens of cool trailers and insight by a guy who doesn't speak English.  (Luckily he shuts up for most of the disc and all we get are cool trailers).  This is part one of 'Night of Bad Taste' with a whole other serving of tasty trailers featuring films that are not known as 'mainstream'.  Just leave it on. 

AA650 Night of Death (80) aka: La nuit de la mort!   Deadlock House (it looks amazing) is a secluded retirement home housing eccentric old people.  The secret they hide?  They stay alive by eating human flesh (and it seems to work!).  The new nurse arrives for her eight month stay, the old nurse disappears, down the throats of the old people of course.  Have a heart.  Yum.  Hope she had health insurance.  The landlady and the caretaker are both very strange.  But of course they are.  A nice topless scene from the female lead and a creepy old people attack sequence.  Widescreen   French with English subtitles  BA

AA665 Night of the Bloody Transplant (70) aka: The Transplant  Snow bound Michigan is the setting for an illegal heart surgery that goes wrong.  Actual heart surgery footage was the selling point.  Killings by a paranoid psychotic and evil doings by the mad surgeon.  The film is padded by local talentless music acts, burlesque dancers and body painting.  Psychotronic time capsule.  Not to be confused with 'Night of the Bloody Apes' or 'The Amazing Transplant', this is a different beast altogether. 

W520 Painless Steel Part Two (90) This was considered obscene in Britain, and Mr. Sebastian the famous piercing pro, was jailed at the time.  Take a journey into the world of those who need to get their bodies mutilated to feel okay with themselves.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.  Some people drink, others toke, still others need to tattoo their whole freaking bodies, some people all of the above.  Just an interesting exploration into this in the times of 1990 when it was maybe not as mainstream as it is today. 

AA471 Private House of the SS (77) aka: Casa privata per le SS  There may be traitors in their midst.  Nazi officials hire beautiful prostitutes, led by Fra Inge (Marina Daunia) to seduce military men who are suspect.  Orders from Hitler himself.  The girls easily root out the weeds, and are then given the task of exposing other undesirables for extinction, including the nasty murderer Oscar and his band of henchmen.  Wacky Hans, likes to bash out a tune on an organ between orgies, and spurns the smitten Frau Inge, who sets him up to die.  Loads of nudity, sexual perversions, a sadistic whipping and suicide.  Directed by Bruno Mattei, this is his 'Salon Kitty'.   English dubbed Uncut Version  BA

N293 Puppy (07) aka: Waldile: Der Schlimme Killer Hund   A puppy is washed up on the shore.  A puppy with Viking heritage.  A pet shop owner rescues the puppy and gives it to her sister.  This is no ordinary puppy.  The puppy begins to slowly kill everyone in the home where the new owner lives with her roommates.  The movie is hysterical, and one of a kind.  Sexy coeds, heavy metal, a miniature Viking ship (this the puppy's former mode of travel) and more.  Double it with 'Mongrel' for a two-treat delight.  Woof! 

AA472 She Devils of the SS (73) aka: Eine Armee Gretchen   aka: Fraulein in uniforme   Since this film was made for the German market, the Nazis are not depicted as terrible as they really were.  Instead, the picture relies mostly on the ogling of young and beautiful naked German women.  This is not about historical accuracy or political correctness, but more like a racy nudity-filled 'Hogan's Heroes'.  Light and breezy.  Nazis happily rolling about in fields, or enjoying swastika-topped cakes, cheerily praising the Fuhrer while cavorting in the nude.  Wow.  English dubbed and slightly Widescreen  BA

AA546 Strange World of Coffin Joe (68) The opening salvo forcefully uttered by Coffin Joe will save those of you who are currently in therapy, a fortune.  Now for three tales of horror!  1.  The Dollmaker: Robbers rape the daughters of the Dollmaker, and then learn why the eyes in the dolls of the doll maker are so realistic.  2.  Perversion: A man has unholy lust for a woman.  When she is stabbed to death he spends the night in her tomb to satisfy his dark obsession.  Necrophilia!  3.  Ideology: A madman (Coffin Joe himself actor director Jose Mojica Marins) goes to extreme measures to prove the nonexistence of human love.  Dungeons, torture, cannibalism....  Quite dark and horrifying, unlike anything being made in America in 1968.  English subtitles

W517 Time to Kill, A (13) aka: Eine Zeit Zum Toten   Death Wish POV!  Four men are to blame for the death of Rene Martens sixteen year old daughter.  They got her drunk and then raped her.  Suddenly Martens is alerted to the event being posted online.  He watches the video of his daughter's gang rape.  Despair.  Now, is a time to kill.  Martens gets a gun.  Later, he tracks one of the rapists.  The scum begs for his life, but Marten shoots him anyway.  More must die.  Filmed from the point of view of Rene Martens.  You become him entirely in the first person perspective.  Eating, Driving, walking in well lit locations...  killing.  All Martens POV.  German language only.  Give it a chance, very real, especially when he kills a rapist right in front of the guy's wife and son.  Bye-Bye you bastard.  You will root for Martens.  A righteous POV kill film. 

AA496 Trail, The (83) aka: Jui gwai chat hung   Taoist priests, who transport hopping corpses, are hired to transport a real dead body (for a change) to it's final resting place.  Best described as a horror comedy tangled with a kung fu -western vibe.  There's an oozing, leprosy-infected swamp zombie out for revenge, opium smuggling, Exorcist-referencing to comic effect, stealing John Carpenter's 'The Thing' score bits...  All because the priests lose their corpse in a quicksand bog and it rises from the muck ....  Widescreen  Cantonese with English subtitles  BA

W514 True Gore 2: Empire of Madness (89) After a scary violent open, where a man is murdered and decapitated, his severed head begins to speak, and talks of the ways of death...  of being dead.  He claims he has never felt so alive, as being dead!  Now, he introduces scenes of death, torture and dismemberment.  He warns us all that we are next.  A graphic brain removal is  followed by other real horrors, as a scary synth soundtrack destroys your very sanity. 

L894 Victim, The (99) aka: Muk lou hung gwong   When man who has lost his job returns home after being kidnapped and tortured, his personality changes.  He had been left hanging by his heels in a deserted hotel, haunted by the ghosts of the former owners, victims of a murder suicide.  Now he is irrational, seemingly possessed.  A mixture of horror and crime with twists and turns.   Cantonese with English subtitles

K760 We Await (96) An altered state, madness mind-set of a movie about a man foraging for wild fungus who finds a strange crystal that has power over all who touch it.  Jack uses it to capture the soul of his sister as she dies slowly of cancer.  He creates a nectar from the fungus and feeds it to others who trip their brains out and become cannibals...  + Debbie Does Damnation (99)  Debbie is in Claymation Hell after offing herself.  A battle is afoot.  Debbie must retrieve the horns of Satan.  Stop-Motion and Live Action Madness. 

L614 Wedding Trough, The (70) aka: The Pig Fucking Movie   One sick piece of work from Belgium with no dialogue filmed in black and white.  A man lives alone on a farm, his only friend's are pigs.  Real pigs.  Not some fat wife or slobby granny, but sows.  He falls in love with a pig and starts banging it.  Old MacDonald has a farm.  The pig gives birth to mutant human/pig hybrids.  The relationship goes bad.  Time to slaughter the pig.  Murder in this case since the pig is his beloved.  Excessive full frontal male nudity, mating animals, man-on-swine action (simulated) you get the picture, although you may not want to....  Insane, never boaring, but some will call it hogwash. 

AA571 Wife Collector (85) aka: Hitozuma korekutâ   Each woman gets a ride in the wrong taxi.  The driver is a rapist who videotapes his sexual deeds, for pleasuring himself later.  He has a collection, labeled for each rape conquest.  Misaki becomes a nymphomaniac.  She will even take you, if you want her.  Casual sex, rape, masturbation, lesbian licks....   Cantonese with English subtitles  BA

AA469 Wonderland Horror (86) aka: Daikanyama Horror   Before the mainstreaming of 'American Idol' type crap, three Japanese girls who aspire to be new pop idols train in a secret school designed for them.  But this is not training, but ultimately a place for them to be terrorized by the band 'Gastunk' and forced to eat guts and puke.  All in good fun of course.  Wrapped around the meat of the thing, dance scenes and people walking around.  This is like a horrifying  music video gone terribly wrong.  The thing is, when shit finally hits the fan, it's surprising.  Japanese with English subtitles  BA

HAMMER & BRITISH FILMS

AA490 Cater Street Hangman, The (98) aka: The Inspector Pitt Mysteries   A serial killer is on the loose in Victorian London.  The feisty Charlotte Ellison (Keeley Hawes) defies the wishes of her stern father (who seems like he may have something to hide) and assists the Inspector (who is under great duress) to catch the killer.  High quality production that will keep you guessing until the credits roll. 

AA628 Chastity Belt, The (72) aka: Up the Chastity Belt  aka: Naughty Knights  Outrageous English humor starring comedian Frankie Howerd as (raised by pigs) Sir LurkaLot, the lost twin brother of King Richard the Lion-Hearted who's long left for the Crusades.  Dame De Custard has an easy combination lock on her chastity belt, but her daughter is impenetrable.  The Crusades are featured as a sort of tent-city Las Vegas with sexy belly dancers.  Jokes keep flying as we engage frustrated ladies in waiting.  Robin Hood and his Merry Men also make an appearance!  Bawdy British humor that also stars Eartha Kitt, David Prowse (as 'Sir Grumble') and loads of attractive females.   BA

AA483 Clothes in the Wardrobe, The (93) A young Lena Headey stars here as 'Margaret', a woman who would rather be a nun than a housewife.  The wedding is arranged and the guests are beginning to arrive.  The match is unsuitable.  Outrageous.  Can the impending nuptials be sabotaged?  The thing is, Margaret has met a hunkier, kinder man, while her wedding was being planned.  Veteran cast includes Catherine Schell, Britta Smith, Joan Plowright, Jeanne Moreau and more. 

W515 Crackhouse (03) Docu   An ex-crack head visits Liverpool, where 'The Beatles' were born, and we see insight into the lives of crack addicts in the UK, along with prostitutes (some of them pregnant), shoplifters and other deviants.  The theme is simple.  This is not going away.  In fact, the U.K. in 2025 is now unrecognizable, the culture being slowly destroyed as pubs across England are shuttered by the hundreds. 

AA618 Deep End (70) aka: La ragazza del bagno pubblico   Mike (John Moulder-Brown of 'Vampire Circus') really digs his older trick turning coworker Susan (Jane Asher) at his new job at the rundown bath house.  In the meantime, his first lady client is Diana Dors, so fifteen year old Mike really has his brain busy.  The use of color imagery in this film is meant to drill into your mind along with the gritty, abstract, storyline sending signals of accidents and destiny blended with young sexual obsession.  Susan is a tease.  Mike starts to stalk and act weird, going off the deep end.  BA

AA525 Great Van Robbery, The (59) aka: Allarme a Scotland Yard   The Royal Mint van has been looted.   Man of action husky, portly karate man Caesar Smith (Denis Shaw) is enlisted to find the mint banknotes, traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris as he tracks a London coffee importer, leading to a shoot-out amid sacks of coffee beans.  Cheap and efficient with locations achieved through stock footage.  With Kay ('Cat  Girl' 1957) Callard as Ella.  Written by Brian Clemens.  BA

AA585 Hidden Room, The (49) aka: Obsession  Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) has had just about enough of his wife Storm's (Sally Gray) adultery with a younger man.  That's okay, he has the perfect plan.  Foolproof.  Revenge!  He forces the man at gunpoint to a underground bombed out abode, and chains him to the wall.  There they have some tense conversations, but most of the time, the sadistic shrink Riordan is about his usual daily business.  The wife is in a panic.  Where has her lover gone?   BA

AA506 Keep Your Seats, Please!  (36) Musical chairs as George Formby tries to discover which of a half dozen chairs his late eccentric aunt has hidden a large cache of jewels meant for him so the others do not get their greedy hands on it.  The chairs however, have already gone to an auction house.  Formby has a banjo in this film, and sings a couple of songs.  Snap-wit dialogue.  Also starring Alastair Sim.  Formby was illiterate, could neither read or write, but still made his way with a successful career, thanks to his wife.  BA

AA503 Memento Mori (92) Elderly people who all seem to know one another in some way receive telephone calls saying 'remember, you must die'.  At a funeral a few of these people realize they have all answered this ominous message.  A revelation morphs into a murder mystery of sorts, with a cast of British veterans each relishing their servings of English ham.  Thora Hird, Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, Maurice Denham and many more. 

AA596 Miranda (48) While fishing, married Dr. Paul Martin is captured by Miranda, a real mermaid, who takes Paul to her sea cave.  She will only release him, if he agrees to take her to London as 'his patient'.  Miranda and men find each other irresistible, she quickly adds the chauffer and the fiancé of Paul's neighbor to her list of conquests, seducing them with her charm, not her body, she is wheelchair bound after all.  Miranda sleeps in a tub of cold water at night, and her diet is raw fish.  Miranda wants a man, the mermen just are not doing it for her.   Followed by a sequel “Mad About Men”1954  #A53  Not to be confused with 'Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid' #5351.  BA

AA504 Monster: The Mystery of Loch Ness (22) New footage, new revelations, new super-colorful footage of the Loch Ness Lake.  Join us in the search, the speculation, the obsession.  Is the beast there?  Has it ever been? Learn more, or nothing, here. 

AA502 Mr. Horatio Knibbles (71) Young Mary, with her banana seat bike, wishes for a bunny rabbit for her birthday.  No, alas.  Mary does however get a bunny in the form of an invisible dapper (and creepy) man-bunny.  Mr. Horatio Knibbles is his name.  Don't wear it out.  Knibbles reveals himself to Mary, but only Mary, making for comedy moments.  Like when Mr. Knibbles kicks people in the behind when they are bending over!  Oh you silly!  Colorful, and very weird.  Take that Harvey! 

AA505 Murder at the Windmill (49) aka: Murder at the Burlesque   A man in the audience during a performance at the Windmill Theater is shot from the stage (for a change).  A particularly annoying critic? However, the show must go on (and it does) as a detective works to solve the murder.  Wise-cracking chorus girls but no famed Windmill nudity to be had.  A slice of theater history.  Written and directed by Val Guest.  BA

AA633 Murder Elite (85) Diane Baker (Ali Macgraw) moves back to the family's English farm with her sister Margaret (Billie Whitelaw), who does not approve of Diane's promiscuous ways.  Annoyed by the machinations of farm noises, Diane wants to sell and return to the city.  Margaret says no way.  Meanwhile a mysterious killer stalks the farming community countryside.  Diane fantasizes of the killer murdering Margaret, so she can get the money for the farm and escape.  As she plots, the fates line up a very different plan.  More a British Thriller than a slasher, but still very atmospheric, the big old gothic house is amazing, and the score by Hammer legend James Bernard makes things seem more suspenseful than they really are.  Ali Macgraw may be a bit out of place here, but is fun to watch.  Billie Whitelaw scared me good with her Mrs.  Baylock in 'The Omen'.  Hywel Bennett is pretty effective, if you remember 'Twisted Nerve'.  The last gasp of 'Tyburn Film Studios'. 

AA624 Room 43 (58) aka: Passport to Shame  Herbert Lom shines as a horn-doggie daddy pimp oozing charm and generosity, luring women behind closed doors where he turns into a  brutish woman handler, savagely grabbing and slobbering kisses, even his toupe looks like it has an erection.  Eddie Constantine is a two-fisted cabbie who rouses his fellow peers to confront the 'ho-mongers'.  Also, a weird weed-induced dream sequence.  Diana Dors and more.  Michael Caine and Ann Reid appear uncredited as a young bride and groom.  BA

AA501 Sky Pirates (80) Radio-controlled model Spitfire aero planes loaded with attack darts by their young owners, are directed in a battle of sorts against the smugglers of diamonds, who are using similar planes for their crimes.  It's a battle in the sky! 

AA592 Snake Woman, The (61) aka: Vom Teufel gezeichnet   1890 England.  A doctor injects his ailing wife with snake venom.  Later she gives birth to what the villagers call 'The Devil's Baby'.  The mob rises with their lit torches, and they burn the house down.  Years later, villagers are dying from snakebite.  Low budget but very passable British chiller.  Pair with Hammer's 'The Reptile'.  Widescreen  BA

AA498 Storyville: Sex on Screen (23) aka: Body Parts   Exploring the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood and the impact on woman and girls in the real world.  Some of the gals featured are not thrilled with their sexual exploits on the big screen.  

AA500 Sykes and a Bandage (74) Eric Sykes, and an episode of one of his many projects, he sits on a couch, leg in bandages, later also both arms, to comedic effect.  + The Eric Sykes 1990 Show (82) In 1982, Eric Sykes makes a prediction that by 1990, celebrities will have to pay for their own TV shows.  This involves skits of a British humor that is now lost in eternal time warp.  Even the British seem to be sensitive to their past, posting a warning in the opening that states 'This Programme reflects the standards, language and attitudes of it's time.  Some viewers may find this content offensive'.  Which makes me ask the question, to whom is this flaccid apology meant for?  Isn't England still held by the British in 2025?  Stiff upper lip my ass. 

AA533 Tiger Bay (34) Olaf and his gang commit every offence, including murder.  The worm turns when Lui Chang finally gets up the nerve to strike back.  Limited sets used to maximum effect, a well-done battle scene, Henry Victor as a gangster leading a wild and deadly gang who speak with practiced English elocution, and Anna May Wong in the performance of her career.  Not to be confused with the 1959 'Tiger Bay'.   BA

AA510 Trial of Madame X, The (48) aka: Jacqueline   Often filmed tale based on the 1910 play about a woman who finds herself being defended for murder by her long-lost son who is now a brilliant French advocate. 

AA511 Voice Within, The (46) During a smuggling operation meant to earn money to help his brother escape the clutches of the IRA, Dennis O'Shea (Kieron Moore) kills a constable.  The policeman's black dog will not forget, and stays on his trail.  Or is this pursuit in his mind? In either event, O'Shea, is wracked with guilt, and paranoia....  Kieron Moore would go on later to star in some important science fiction films like 'Day of the Triffids', 'Crack in the World' and 'Dr. Blood's Coffin'. 

AA442 White Trap, The (59) Paul Langley's (Lee Patterson) wife Joan (Felicity Young) is about to go in labor.  Paul's dilemma?  Paul is in the slammer.  Meanwhile, there is a problem in the delivery room.  Paul escapes from prison, leading the police on a wild chase as he races to be at his wife's side.  There is a twist in the trap.   

MISCELLANEOUS SPY, ACTION, WAR, MARTIAL ARTS, DRAMA, COMEDY AND MORE

AA631 Angel Mine (78) Cinema held together by a loose narrative framework, labeled as New Zealand's first 'Punk' film.  Set in Auckland, it depicts marriage and suburbia as some people see it.  A young couple becomes entangled in a surrealistic world switching between reality and fantasy while attempting to model their lives on media advertising in the world of punk music and black leather.   BA

AA573 Angel's Leap (71) aka: Da parte degli amici firmato mafia   During opening credits, hitmen kick down a door and shoot to death a man and a naked blonde, then cops attack a punk spray-painting over a political figure on a building, beating him and taking him away.  This is all about an electoral battle raging in Marseilles.  Younger gangsters support the opposing side to the old school, creating a rift, resulting in shootings and bloody violence, dealt out by henchman/hit man Henry Di Fusco (Gordon Mitchell).   The lead candidate is behind the killings, which result in Di Fusco killing the wrong people.  Now, pissed off, the sole-survivor of a gangland family (Jean Yanne), goes on a violent rampage of revenge.  Brutal, vicious and violent vendetta is order of the day.  The snake torture is priceless.  Di Fusco squeals, and ....  Car chases, great stunt work, unexpected bursts of violence...   The last ten minutes and resolution was riveting.  Also starring Senta Berger.  Dubbed into English  BA

AA655 Assault on Agathon (76) Terrorist bank robbers and assassinations in the south of Italy climaxes with the kidnapping of Interpol investigator Matt Fenrek.  His lover Maria appeals to Fenrek's old comrade-in-arms Cabot Cain for help.  There we learn more about the dreaded madman Agathon and his campaign of murder who's ultimate goal is a revolution in the Mediterranean.  Cain travels to Salonika in search of Agathon and sleeps with Helen, Agathon's mistress (Marianne Faithfull), who is killed for her infidelity.  Cain tracks Agathon to his mountain lair....

AA555 Avenging Warriors of Shaolin (79) aka: Jie shi ying xiong   aka: Shaolin Rescuers  Young and restless, a waiter, and a tofu store worker, train in martial arts, in the hopes of being heroes for a cause.  Meanwhile, an evil white-eye-browed priest is destroying all of the Shaolin Temples with his crew of kung-fu ass-kickers.  One injured Shaolin disciple escapes the carnage, and finds help with the two young men, and others.  Training sequences, fights with chopsticks, stools, whatever is handy.  The final violent encounter is over 20 minutes long.  Widescreen and English dubbed  BA

L292 Beartooth (78) aka: Adventures of Beartooth   In the tradition of 'The Wilderness Family' and 'Grizzly Adams' comes a feel good adventure as two former rivals become friends in order to survive the ordeals of a harsh winter.  I may be stretching the feel good part.  Nice Montana locations, hillbilly music by Johnny Bush that sounds like 'Dukes of Hazard' and stars Dub Taylor, Buck Taylor and Judy Nugent.  Where’s Bart the Bear when you need him?   BA

AA476 Beauty of Vice (86) aka: Lepota Poroka   In Serbia, a straight-forward conservative couple, take new jobs at a nudist colony.  The wife observes and discovers activities and freedoms that she never knew existed.  For the Balkan, a film relevant for it's time, presenting two extremes.  When the wife starts splashing around naked in the pool...  things get even more weird.  English subtitles and slight Widescreen

8832 Behind the Rising Sun (43) aka: Tragico oriente  J. Carrol Naish and Tom Neal (among other white actors) in full oriental makeup play father and son Japanese.  The usual workings of culture clash with Americans in their midst and other political complications threading through and then the Pearl Harbor attack changes everything for everybody.  Ugly results of indoctrination depicted through a conditioning process, and not a genetic flaw as other films of the era would put forth.  Social disorder.  Also starring Margo, Gloria Holden and more.  BA

AA480 Being Different (85) Disfigured by nature or an unfortunate accident, these individuals existed as side show attractions adding flair to the carnival experience.  And they also earned money.  You will meet the 'Monkey Girl', 'The Alligator Man', the tallest woman in the world, conjoined twins, a modern day elephant man (Bob Melvin, a lost soul from hell in 'The Sentinel') and others.  The poetry of life, a quiet triumph of the human spirit. 

AA545 Big Bad Sis (76) aka: Sa dam ying  Ping Chin is Fung Yin, a badass sis/former gangster.  That's former.  She is now reformed.  Fung Yin is a factory girl, working with others of her class at a clothing site.  Sewing.  Always sewing.  We get the back-story on a few of the girls, and a sadistic training sequence that gets out of hand.  We all know you can never run from your past.  It finds you!  Lesbians always get into fun catfights in the restroom, you watch!  Battles to be the head bitch...  the least of their troubles when real trouble comes, Fung Chin's old gang!  After much brutal violence, Fung Chin takes on over a dozen men using a shovel, her teeth...  then reinforcements arrive for a painful looking battle royale.  Widescreen  Cantonese with English subtitles  BA

AA484 Black Crown (51) aka: La Corona Negra   Andres (Rosanno Brazzi) falls in love with amnesiac Mara (the sensuous Maria Felix) and her past begins to reveal that she was a very bad woman.  Very bad.  Ice Cold Bad.  Suspense, twists, surreal scenes, stolen precious stones, weird dreams where bizarre hands appear in the blazing desert sun where vultures stalk the dead ....  Maria Felix is the most perfect Femme Fatale, and one Mexican's cinema's most gorgeous.  Spanish with English subtitles  BA

7447 Black Like Me (64) aka: No Man Walks Alone  A true story filmed for the big screen.  A reporter (James Whitmore) makes himself up in blackface (going even further to darken his skin) during the height of the Civil Rights movement.  Then, he wanders the segregated South and lives the 'experience' of a black man, talking black, and getting angrier and angrier.  Apparently this movie pisses people off.  I wasn't around when this was happening, but I found it compelling.  A full length minstrel show.  Anybody with a brain would have seen through his 'knee-grow' disguise, but fascinating all the same.  Will Geer, Clifton James, Roscoe Lee Browne and Sorrell Booke.  BA

AA666 Blue Lightning, The (86) The world's most priceless opal is sought by adventurer Harry Wingate (Sam Elliot) after he is hired by a gem collector to recover 'the blue lightning' (as this opal is named) from the clutches of the Irish Republican Army financier Lester McNally (Robert Culp).  McNally has a seemingly impenetrable fortress in a small town in the Australian outback.  Also starring Rebecca Gilling, she of 'Stone' and 'Return to Eden'.  BA

AA638 Bounty Hunter (75) aka: Shokin kasegi  The first 10 episodes of this action samurai show starring the immortal Tomisaburo Wakayama as Shikoro Ichebe, the Bounty Hunter.  This could very well be Japan's answer to 'Kung Fu' over here in the states.  Each episode, a story, as the adventures continue, of course faster and more violent making 'Kung Fu' seem like a show for little kids, this is not.   The titles of the episodes are as follows.  Disc One: Soldiers with No Graves and Ballad of the Massacre.  Disc Two: Gunmen of the Gokumondai and Path of Hyenas.  Disc Three: Hunters of the Underworld and Wolf of the Ghost Town.  Disc Four: A Samurai's Elegy and The Red Deadline.  Disc Five: Godmother of a Ruined Family and Pro Fighter's Code.   Five Disc counts as 5 selections, or get one at a time, however you want.  Japanese with English subtitles on all

Q768 Breakout from Oppression (82) aka: Leng yan sha ji  aka: Exposed to Danger   Psycho Killer!  A young woman is released from prison after serving eight years for murder.  She settles in with a job at a newspaper.  But strange things are happening at work, and at home.  It seems she is not clear of her past.  Written by Godfrey Ho and the way the editing jumps about you would swear he is the one who cobbled this together as well.  But this is one film, not two or three.  Once things get going a pleasant ballet of violence and weirdness spills as we see a psychotic killer, maggots on a corpse, brutal bloody stabbing, a vicious catfight that ends in death and a shot-for-shot decapitation rip-off scene copying 'Friday the 13th'. 

AA651 Bubba Until It Hurts (85) Not just another pretty workout, this one stars Bubba Smith (of the 'Police Academy' films) himself.  I think there are a couple dudes in the room working out with Bubba, but mostly just hot chicks!  Bubba is soaked in sweat as he talks, encouraging you to join him into getting fit.  Lisa Coppenolle, Gloria Hayes and Kim Waltrip are some of the girls working out with Bubba.  Hopefully, he got to take them home after.  Sadly Bubba's health kick didn't continue forever, he died from a drug overdose in 2011 at age 66.   BA

X977 Bye Bye Vietnam (88) Filmed in the Dominican Republic.  A helicopter has crashed in Viet Nam the year 1965.  A platoon, slated to leave the war zone are given one last task.  They must journey into the deep jungles and when they do, they find the man they need to rescue is being held in an enemy camp.  Directed by Camillo Testi, the man who directed one of the nastier giallos 'The Killer is Still Among Us'.  An Italian made war action starring Antonio Sabato as 'Razor'.   BA

AA571 Cat, The (88) aka: Die Katze  There he is, observing, The Cat, watching from outside the bank, the true criminal mastermind of the robbery inside.  The robbers have taken hostages, and demanded three million in German marks.  The police are trying to pull a bait and switch, but 'The Cat' is really running the show.  Probek (the cat) thinks he has every angle covered, but he didn't anticipate the bank manager's wife.  She's one tough cookie.  Maybe even smarter than Probek.  But the surprise...    The waiting, the moments in-between, the tension boils, close to exploding.  Eric Burdon song 'Good Times' is played.  Some have declared this is the best German crime film ever and reminds them of 'Dog Day Afternoon'.   German with English subtitles  BA

AA639 Catamount Killing, The (74) aka:  Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut   In a remote town in New England, Mark Kalvin (Horst Bucholz) seduces local matriarch Kit (Anne Wedgeworth), and both being disgruntled with their lot in life, convinces her to help him rob the bank that he manages.  Bank clerk Alice is too smart for her own good.  Kalvin takes care of her.  Their flawless plan backfires, badly.  Filmed in Vermont.   English dubbed  BA

AA647 Chains (89) No man's land in South Chicago, where two of the toughest gangs go head-to-head in an explosion of rage and fury, prompted by the murder of the 'Chains' notorious leader 'The Colonel'.  Suburban couples are caught in the middle of the mayhem after taking a wrong turn into the heart of the conflict.  Can you dig it?  BA

AA648 Charlie Bravo (80) A crack commando unit is ordered to rescue a nurse who has been captured by those nasty Viet Kong.  Each member of the elite unit Charlie Bravo is a trained killer.  Well gee, I hope so, being war and all.  Soldiers of death on a suicide mission.  Their orders are to take no prisoners.  When they become trapped, they realize that no one is coming, like Rambo abandonment.  Now, they must rely on their killer instincts for survival.  All the horror and savagery of war explode as the commandos burn, massacre and destroy in their relentless struggle...  to get out alive!  English dubbed   BA

AA619 Checkerboard (59) aka: Les tripes au soleil   After a young white man asks a black girl to the annual dance all racial hell breaks out in a dying desert town.  This French/Italian production seems to be a slam on Americanism, depicting the whites as degenerates, the blacks as oppressed.  The man with the black girl is beaten up by white men, a white hooker pins it on black men, giving an excuse to form a lynch mob, some participants the same ones who actually did the beating.  English dubbed  Widescreen   BA

AA646 Close to Home (86) For Michelle (Jillian Fargey), home means heartbreak, from sexual and emotional abuse.  Like millions of teenagers before her, she runs away, in search of a better life.  On the streets she meets Donna (Anne Petrie), a television journalist looking for a story.  Michelle is a prostitute at this point, the 'better life' she fell into.   Mixing fiction with non-fiction, we meet a seasoned gay hustler, real social workers and more sad characters. 

AA581 Death of a Killer (64) aka: La mort d'un tueur  aka: Concerto per un assassino   Ex-con Pierre Massa (Robert Hossein) returns after a five year stay in the slammer because of a botched armored car robbery.  Hooking up with some of his former gang, together they try to figure out who set him up.  The evidence seems to point to his best buddy, who is now shacked up with his sister (Marie-France Pisier in a dual role), for whom Massa has an unnatural incestuous attraction to.  Massa follows his old friend, he himself also followed, but by who?  Massa meets his sister's doppelganger and has sex with her and things tip into even stranger territory.  Flashbacks clipped in silence tell us why we are here.  Melancholic Revenge Thriller, with a hum-dinger crackerjack of an ending.  Marie-France Pisier would drown in her own swimming pool in 2011 at age 66, in France.  Widescreen   French with English subtitles  BA

AA497 Desert Sands (55) aka: Wüstensand  aka: La figlia dello sceicco  Crazed Arabs battle those encroaching upon their territory.  The French Foreign Legion, led by Captain David Malcom (Ralph Meeker).   Marla English as Princess Zara rides in and cracks a whip striking Captain David Malcom before her first line!  The slave girl Alita is the quite sizzling Lita Milan who had one hell of a life straight out of an epic novel.  J. Carrol Naish and John Carradine also star.  Filmed in the Mojave Deserts of Arizona.  Marla English will be remembered for Desert Sands, The She Creature, and Voodoo Woman (her last film in 1958).  Going out on a high note?  BA

AA554 Girl in the Kremlin (57) aka: Stalin is Alive  Effective cheap spy scare.  Joseph Stalin has changed his identity through plastic surgery and escaped justice, along with four women he has kidnapped, one a beautiful blonde who is the sister of Zsa Zsa Gabor (in a dual role).  OSS agent Steve Anderson (Lex Barker) is on his trail!  Stalin watches as a beautiful brunette has her head shaved.  It's a long, disturbing scene, he gets his kicks watching this, smoking on his pipe.  Also on the run is the villainous son of Stalin (William Schallert).  A brutal bloody flogging.  A dark little shocker.  Doubled up with 'The Deadly Mantis' in theaters of 1957.  Best line" 'The Devil has gone back to Hell'.  Oh, in 1957, Zsa Zsa Gabor was a knockout!  BA

AA453 Harry and the Hookers (70) aka: Bullet Machine, The   aka: Clegg  aka: Andate all'inferno e dite al Diavolo che vi manda Clegg   A low-budget mixture of 'Get Carter' and an American hardboiled detective film directed by the one and only Lindsay Shonteff.  Ex-cop turned P.I.  Harry Clegg (Gilbert Wynne) spends his time banging various women when he is not fist-fighting goons, all in a day's work I suppose.  Clegg is drawn into the world of 'Suzy the Slag' (Gilly Grant who played 'Sally G-String' in 'Carry On Camping') a former porn actress/hooker (there's a difference?) who has gone rogue and is now a hit woman.  Suzy will seduce and kill salivating old geezers.  Clegg is an amoral anti-hero who has no problem shooting people in the back with a machine gun or sending a terrified man to a violent death.  The way he goes through women makes James Bond seem celibate by comparison.  The kind of outing you want to attend.  BA

AA586 In Search of Anna (78) The South coast along the Melbourne to Sydney route and the unmolested realism of Sydney locked in time is realized as Tony (Richard Moir), freshly released from prison, searches for the only thing he ever knew as good, Anna, whom he may never find.  It's a road movie.  As Tony travels along, his story is told in flashbacks.  Tony meets Sam (Judy Morris) and they become a thing, still traveling Highway One.  AC/DC and Rose Tattoo are only a few of the bands on the soundtrack.  A road trip well worth taking. 

AA473 Main Line to Terror (75) aka: Dynamic Islands  aka: Dômyaku rettô  Bullet Train noise and pollution drives a hospital intern to extreme measures when his twisted mind concludes the train is the reason for the deaths of his patients.  The bomb is set close to the railway, while a game of cat and mouse ensues with the cops and the terrorist.  Widescreen   Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA491 Make Mine Chartreuse (87) aka: Shades of Love   That's right, another romantic abomination!  Romance novelist Steve (Joseph Bottoms) puts the moves on workaholic Rosemary (Catherine Colvey) and the sparks fly!  Receiveth unto us oh lord, another 'Harlequin novel' type put to film.  If putting you in the mood is the aim, well, this is not it (or, is it?).  Still, it might work on getting you laid on movie night, so....  And lastly, if you want to see a picture of what woman would get turned on by this, check out Catherine Colvey's IMDB picture. 

AA488 Many Passed By (56) aka: Viele kamen vorbei  aka: Le sadique de l'autoroute   A serial killer prowls the freeways, raping and strangling young teenage hitchhikers.  Catching this monster becomes the obsession of a detective as his family life crumbles.  Three parallel stories - the girl, the killer, and the inspector- converge at a roadside diner.  The killer strangles and murders three women before the opening credits.  Berman with English subtitles  BA

AA460 Mister Deathman (83) Filmed in South Africa Action!   Ex-secret agent Geoffrey Graves (David Broadnax) is called back into service to locate a kidnapped aerospace engineer.  Stella Stevens (showing up halfway through the movie!) is a villainous she-bitch (this part she played so well) who surrounds herself with affectionate females that cater to her and spits out lines like 'Bring me his head, or at least an ear!'.  It's a spy film.  It's a South African Blaxploitation film.  Who exactly is 'Mr. Deathman'?  Let's face it, David Broadnax is a black James Bond!  Sadly his next film the following year 'Zombie Island Massacre' would be his last (and only other).  BA

AA485 Moment of Terror (66) aka: Hikinige   The new maid Kuninko has ulterior motives.  Her employer is the man wed to the cheating wife who killed her child in a hit and run.  Now, embraced in the household, Kuniko fantasizes how to do in the young boy, her ward of sorts.  Meanwhile, the adulteress is spinning out mentally as her lover is about to leave town.  What happens in this revenge thriller is a surprise.  Japanese with English subtitles - slight Widescreen

W504 Monsoon (52) An American couple (played by George Nader and Diana Douglas) go to visit the wife's parents in far off India.  Tagging along, the husband's mother (Ellen Corby) is not very happy with the condition of the living quarters.  Enter the sister played by Ursula Thiess who tries to steal away her sister's new beau as she turns on the heat.  Meow!   Meanwhile, the rains are coming.  Maybe to cool everybody off before things go too far?  BA

AA597 Night They Killed Rasputin, The (60) aka: Les nuits de Raspoutine   Before the 1966 Hammer version, Edmund (Pieces) Purdom stars as our titular hero.  Was he a healer, a heretic, patriot or peasant.  Maybe all of these.  Women hungrily sought his embraces as he taught them salvation through sin.  Now see the incredible life of a wild lunatic whose indiscretions were the shame of a nation!  Also starring John Drew Barrymore, Jany Clair, Gianna Maria Canale, Yvette Lebon and more.  BA

AA455 One Summer of Happiness (51) aka: Hon dansade en sommar  aka: Ha ballato una sola estate   Young Swedish Goran (Folke Sundquist) arrives in the countryside to live with his uncle and once there takes an immediate liking to Kerstin (Ulla Jacobsson).  No loud message, but rather a candid slice of life when things begin, sweet and butterfly stomach inside.  The soundtrack of folk songs works, the brief scene of skinny-dipping (which shocked audiences of 1951) is innocent and tame.  The film was banned and shunned, attacked as indecent in 1951.  My how times have changed.   Swedish with English subtitles  BA

AA623 Operation Orient (78) aka: Ishyri dosi... sex   Picturesque Rome, Cyprus, Athens and the Greek Islands are the pit stops in this risky fast paced rescue mission with plenty of action and nudity.  International criminals rub shoulders with sun seekers, drug traffickers and killers cross paths with lovers.  A statue will be stuffed with the purest of heroin from the Middle East.  Wait!  It's been stolen!  Gordon Mitchell, Anna Maria Clementi, Gianna Gori and more star.  BA

AA486 Our Blood Will Not Forgive (64) aka: Ore-tachi no chi ga yurusanai   The Yazkuza has another thing coming after they kill the father of two able brothers who are now hell-bent on revenge.  Japanese New Wave styled, fanning obscured shot framing, slick panning camera moves and exaggerated zoom-ins.  The ad agency is splashed in lush, vibrant colors and the ballet of bullets finale sweeps the rugged terrain as gangsters fall to the ground in a blood-drenched fatal last stand.  Color and Widescreen   Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA544 Queen of the Gypsies (76) aka: Gypsies are Found Near Heaven  aka: Tabor ukhodit v nebo  aka: Los gitanos se van al cielo   Tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious gypsy witch girl Rada, and Zobar (Grigore Grigoriu), the dashing horse thief in 20th century Bessarbia, now part of Moldova.  The gypsy life is sold as pleasant.  The music is mesmerizing.  It is impossible to not be seduced by the striking Svetlana Toma's eyes, and the singing of a haunting rhythmic tune by Svetlana, will captivate.  The countryside is breathtaking and unforgettable.  The music score, as good as any you will hear.  There's an (almost) village hanging, and when Svetlana strips to topless by the water you will wish you were a gypsy, for that moment.  Take that Elena Verdugo!  The end of this film simply shocked the hell out of me.  Widescreen   Russian with English subtitles  BA

AA466 Rebel, The (80) aka: poliziotto solitudine e rabbia   Adrenaline fueled action as retired cop Nick Rossi (Maurizio Merli) is hired (by old partner Tony) as a bodyguard to protect a German banker from an assassins bullet (bullets?).  Tony (Francisco Rabal) has failed to protect the last two clients, both of who were killed.  This is his last chance.  Off to Venice.  The German banker is shot and killed.  This is when the film opens up and kicks you in the head as Nick Rossi goes all-guns-blazing, no-holds-barred, all-violence at any cost!  Tony's fling with Vivien (Jutta Speidel) is even violent, one of those weird volatile relationships.  Merli pushing the barriers of his physicality, it's no wonder he was dead at 49 from overexerting himself playing tennis in 1980.  Widescreen English Dub  BA

AA531 Red Zone Cuba (66) aka: Night Train to Mundo Fine  Three men escape from the cops, train in some kind of military camp, take a plane to Cuba, ride a train, lay on cots, and then take part in a not-so-massive eight man invasion of an island where Castro is supposed to be.  They fail (and we also get a funny fake-bearded Castro).  The film is devoid of any type of sense.  The characters return to America, and toss an old guy down a well while his blind daughter plunks away at a piano.  In some weird mysterious psychotronic world, this all makes sense.  Bay of Pigs? This line will make you howl when it happens.  John Carradine roped into this, no surprise there, straight off the set of 'Billy the Kid Meets Dracula'.  Directed by and starring the man who also brought us 'The Beast of Yucca Flats', Coleman Francis.  Widescreen

AA593 Return of Dr. Mabuse, The (61) aka: Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse   The diabolical Dr.  Mabuse is using brainwashed convicts to commit murder.  They are able to escape their cells, kill their target,  and return with no one the wiser.  Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe stars as police commissioner Lohmann, the man assigned to figure out the case, along with help from an American FBI agent (Lex Barker) who is involved with a sexy reporter (Daliah Lavi).  Surprisingly violent at times.  From the director of 'The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism' Harald Reinl.  English dubbed  BA

AA499 Scheming Woman, The (54) aka: Les Intrigantes   A theater director may have pushed his associate from a footbridge.  Under the direction of his scheming wife Mora (Jeanne Moreau) he commits to an insane asylum.  Later, a letter incriminates him.  Femme Fatale Mora has a lover, and sinister intentions.   Lies, lust, betrayal and murder in this pleasantly dark French noir.  Mora's furs look to have killed a score of felines, but of course, showcase clothing for one scorching hot dame at the time Jeanne Moreau.  Another time, another place.  Over twenty years later Jeanne Moreau would marry William Friedkin for a spell.  French with English subtitles  BA

AA602 Secret Agent Fireball (65) aka: Le spie uccidono a Beirut   Two Russian scientists, hoping to defect are both assassinated.  They were supposed to be in possession of secrets important to the west.  Bob Fleming (Richard Harrison) is tasked with finding the microfilm before the Russians.   His path is blocked by a plethora of villains, sexy women, car chases, guns explosions and action with nicely filmed location shots in Italy, Germany....   Wandisa Guida, Dominique Boschero and more star.   BA

AA512 Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu, The (62) aka: Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu   When an astronomer is found dead at Helskinki Observatory Hill, false rumors as to the cause begin to spread throughout the populace, and the usual purposeful slanting of the truth by the press certainly doesn't help matters.  Enter the always reliable Sherlock Holmes of Finland Inspector Palmu.  Whodunit?  Finnish with English subtitles

AA452 Suicide Commandos (68) aka: Commando suicida   The Germans have built a secret airfield that threatens the D-Day Invasion.  Fighting in the area is so thick, Allied Forces cannot get through by air.  Four misfit (oddballs, rag-tags, you pick 'em!) commandos, led by Sergeant Cloadec (Aldo Ray, in a similar 'The Dirty Dozen' turn) are sent behind enemy lines to take out the Luftwaffe airbase.  What is really special is the not-so-special-effects.  The planes and miniatures look like something I set up with my models and set on fire when I was twelve.  This adds to the charm.  The actors play it straight, visual style close-ups, detailed expressions that fit the scenes.  Entertaining, and action-packed!  BA 

AA461 Terminator Woman (93) aka: Backlash   More incredible action from South Africa.  Two cops with problems against each other, Jay Handlin ('Golden Boy' ass-kicking kickboxing champ Jerry Trimble) and Julie Parish (karate champ Karen Sheperd) are enlisted to escort a prisoner back to Africa because he knows where a cache of gold is located.  Julie is not a robot, but she sure knows how to kick ass, and Karen Sheperd was the real deal!  Effective well-staged fights and action!   Not to be confused with 'Lady Terminator'.   BA

AA522 Thirty Million Dollar Rush (87) aka: Heng cai san qian wan  Caper heist film about the attempts to steal currency that was slated for incineration (similar idea in the recent hit 'Den of Thieves').  This is an action comedy from Hong Kong containing one wacky situation after another.  Sarcastic, deadpan, and oh the ladies!   Cantonese with English subtitles

AA583 Vengeance of a Snowgirl (71) aka: Bing tian xia nu  Movies were just better fifty years ago.  A crippled swordswoman is out for revenge against the murderers of her parents, only to be offered a cure for her injured legs in a distant snow field.  She wields a rare jade sword.  In the opening, she hops (flies) on building rooftops, entering the sleeping chambers of an enemy and stealing one of his clawed gloves.  Not bad for a cripple.  Imaginative, colorful outing with an oddball surprising saran wrap up finale.  Now that's loyalty!  Widescreen   Mandarin with English subtitles  BA

AA541 Viper (94) aka: Bad Blood   A trucker comes to the rescue when his loser brother rips off some gangsters who are now after him.  Most would let him rot, but then be denied the action that follows.  The Asian villain is particularly nasty, and the film is ultra-violent in every since of the word, plus, a homage of sorts to the trucker films of old.  Includes the killing in the park of the couple and their child in the opening sequence cut from other versions.  Damn, that was cold.  Kimberly Kates is a knockout.  Also with John P. Ryan in a good guy role for a change.  You will certainly recognize some of the fighters here.  BA

AA518 We Still Kill the Old Way (67) aka: A ciascuno il suo  aka: A cada uno lo suyo   Two men have been murdered in 'honor killings' in Sicily, and Professor Paolo Laurana (Gian Maria Volonte) investigates, The trail is not quite cold as he encounters a tangle mix of the usual suspects.  Corrupt politicians, the Mafia, the Church, and the widow of one of the dead men.  The beautiful Sicilian landscape in all of it's harsh brightness puts you in the scene.  A hornet's nest of intrigue and backroom dealings.  Irene Papas and Luigi Pistilli also star (among others) in this thriller directed by Elio Petri the man who brought us a few giallos some years later.  Italian with English subtitles  BA

AA489 Woman In the Typhoon Area (48) aka: Taifuken no onna   Weathermen on an island are set upon by pirates as a violent storm approaches.  The supply ship, that which was intended for robbery, will be delayed.  Setsuko Hara is Kuriko, a bad dirty girl for a change, maybe looking for redemption.  She may just find it by the final reel.  The pirates begin to argue and kill as the typhoon begins to do it's thing.  Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA558 Young Animals, The (68) aka: Born Wild  aka: Die Cadillac-Bande von San Francisco   'Did you say something Taco?'  Racist white students with plenty of slang words versus Mexican-American students who hate whites as well.  In the open, the rich white boys beat a Mexican, and gang rape his girl.  Then they threaten her to stay quiet, or else.  They plant weed on the beaten passed out Mexican, and he is busted.  Things go downhill for everybody from here.  Patty McCormack stars, once again a schoolgirl, this time at 23.  Well, she's blonde.  A hot one.  When she pulls up to the school in the passenger seat with the new 'greaser' student (Tom Nardini), the kids get pretty rude.  The Mexican kids tell him not to be a 'gringo lover'.  There is racism on both sides here.  In some ways, similar to 'Halls of Anger' from 1970.  Will they give peace a chance?  BA

MODERATE AND MADE FOR TV FILMS

AA640 Acts of Violence (85) The tragic McDonald's restaurant massacre, John Hinckley Jr.'s near assassination of President Reagan, Henry Lee Lucas....  these incidents and cases and more are explored, portraits of their warped motives to murder and violence.  Are we safe, or just waiting our turn? Redundant in this age of ultra violence and apathy, brought on by technologies that make society less human (as a whole).  Don't be a victim.  Carry.  And if in doubt, shoot to kill. 

AA661 Affair, The (73) aka: El Asunto  Courtney Patterson (Natalie Wood) as a disabled with polio, bitchy songwriter romanced by Marcus Simon (real life husband Robert Wagner).  Marcus is divorced, and has two boys aged eight and nine who hate Courtney for no reason.  When Marcus's ex-wife remarries, Marcus dumps Courtney who flips her lid, hurts herself and ends up in the hospital.  The movie has a wonderfully pessimistic outcome.  BA

AA642 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (80)  An all-star cast dominates this fact based account of the 1946 attempted escape from the rock.  Clarence Carnes (Michael Beck) is the mastermind behind the scheme that seems like a good idea, because lifers have nothing to lose.  Art Carney, Will Sampson, Telly Savalas, Ronny Cox, Richard Lynch, Robert Davi, John Amos, Ed Lauter, and many more star.  Told in two parts on two discs counts as two.  BA

AA643 Angel City (80) Forced to sell their farm, Jared Teeter (Ralph Waite), family in tow, heads to Florida for a better life for he and his family.  Teeter winds up in a squalid labor camp controlled by a corrupt and ruthless foreman.  Brutality and kidnapping ensue.  Also in the camp, Paul Winfield who warns/helps Teeter and his family.  Jennifer Jason Leigh is Teeters daughter 'Kristy'.  This movie will make you angry, and root for Teeter as he gets screwed over at every turn.  This is where the promised land becomes the devil's playground. 

AA641 B.A.D. Cats (80) Officers of Burglary Auto Detail = B.A.D. Cats (Asher Brauner and Steve Hanks), hot on the trail of what appears to be  stolen Mercedes Benz ring, leading to murder, a million dollar heist and some pretty cool car chases.  Who's who of actors with Michelle Pfeiffer as a bright back-up cop, Vic Morrow as the captain, LaWanda Page as 'Ma', Jimmie Walker as Rodney, Lance Henriksen, Ted Danson and more.  BA

AA481 Bobbie Gentry (68-71) Three episodes of the beautiful talented Bobbie Gentry with guest stars that include Donovan, The Hollies sing 'Blowin' in the Wind' and Bobbie does Chickasaw County.....  and the third and final episode with Long John Baldry.  Bobbie sports some cool pants outfits of various colors, not hippie-drippy but more mod or Euro, less flash, more class.  Made up like the hottest modest 60's babe, jump cut  music scenes with mining town clips that try to place you in Bobbie's heritage (?) and failing miserably, but always entertainingly. 

AA644 California Kid, The (74) Sheriff Roy Childress (Vic Morrow) is a serial killer who gets his kicks forcing people off the road to their deaths in a mountainous area.  Michael McCord (Martin Sheen) comes, driving his hotrod, a black, flamed '34 Ford coupe.   Michael's brother, a former victim of Childress.  Nick Nolte works in a wrecking yard.  Michelle Philips is a cafe worker.  What a neighborhood.  BA

AA645 City, The (77) Lt. Matt Lewis (Robert Forster) and Sgt.  Brian Scott (Don Johnson) are tracking the disturbed young Eugene (Mark Hamill, same year as that other movie).  Eugene, abandoned by his father in youth, thinks Wes Collins (Jimmy Dean, that's right, the singer, the sausage guy Jimmy Dean) is his real father, and he goes after the country singer, and tries to kill him.  Hamill is unhinged here, galaxies away from that other character, at least in 1977.  BA

AA567 Destination Inner Space (66) Previously #U927, this new print boasts incredible sharp colors and is now an Upgrade!  BA

AA568 Enchanted, The (84) When Royce Hagen returns to the backwoods of Florida to claim the land left to him by his father, he is greeted by long time family friend Booker T. (Julius Harris, the claw hand man from 'Live and Let Die'), who knows the land, and it's legends.  Booker T. is not pleased when Royce takes a liking to a strange young woman, daughter of a squatter clan.  She moves in to help Royce build his nest.  But is her family even human? Is she?  Uniquely atmospheric rural spooker like a latter-day Val Lewton.  The ending will surprise you.  Enchanting. 

AA509 Forgotten Made For Television Volume Three (various)   1.Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie (88) Comedy special with Teri Garr as a woman with an addiction to flapjacks in the late 1940's. Extra syrup! Also with Toni Basil and Larraine Newman. This will never air again because it also has a large black woman dressed like Hattie McDaniel in 'Gone with the Wind'.  The story is told in flashback to later, detailing her addiction, therapy, like a play. 2. Dick Powell Theatre: Crazy Sunday (62) Rip Torn, Vera Miles, Dana Andrews and Barry Sullivan star. A screenwriter (Torn) makes a fool of himself at a Hollywood party, this, an updated version of a Scott Fitzgerald short story which really has a fascinating history.  3. Zane Grey Theatre: Heritage (59) A very downbeat tale with Edward G. Robinson and Robert Blake as father and son during civil war era.  4. Zane Grey Theater: A Thread of Respect (59) Western tale with Charles Coburn and his buddies menacing new arrivals in town, an immigrant (Danny Thomas) and his son (Nick Adams).  5. Jack Benny: Honolulu Trip (53) Marilyn Monroe guest stars and is so sexy and suggestively seductive in 1953 at age 27 televisions melted or started on fire all over the America. You would think anyway.

AA617 Haunting of Rosalind, The (73) Spooky made for television based on a Henry James story, filmed like an episode of gothic-era 'Dark Shadows' as far as production values go with a slow burn candelabra ghost story for the patient.  Rosalind (the sad and haunted looking Pamela Payton-Wright), adorned in chartreuse period dress) is being haunted (or is she?).  The ending is chilling enough, and the movie does not outstay it's welcome.  Frank Converse (in hilarious British accent) would be Moving On after this performance, and Susan Sarandan stars as well, two years before 'Rocky Horror'. 

W508 Inn on Dartmoor, The (64) aka: Das Wirtshaus von Dartmoor   From the Victor Gunn novel, not to be confused with the 1929 film 'A Cottage on Dartmoor'.  Prisoners have vanished from the swampy territory prison of Dartmoor.   P.I. Nash (Heinz Drache, a man who is no stranger to this type of film) is at loggerheads with Inspector Cornwell of Scotland Yard.  Nash believes that they were all a part of some secret organization, and were disappeared for what they knew.  German with English subtitles

AA581 Mae West (82) Mae West deserved an 'R' rated biography ('X'?) but this MFTV white-wash with Ann Jillian in the title role will have to do.  Jillian is pretty, but can't hold a candle to the dry wit delivery of the real Mae West.  The era is captured well, many lines from the lady herself, pushing the limits in the 30's with bawdy material that would shock and delight most.  Roddy McDowall's character Rene Valentine was based on the legendary stage and film star Julian Eltinge, a man who pretty much helped create Mae West, although you wouldn't know it (look him up).  This is very colorful, and okay, but needs a much sleazier realistic remake.  Piper Laurie is the mother, Nicholas Meyer is George Raft, Chuck McCann is W.C. Fields.  

AA574 Night of the Hunter (91) In this different remake of the Robert Mitchum classic, the tale unfolds not through the eyes of the children, instead their experienced horror secondary to the antics of the preacher, played with sinister gusto and a slice of ham by Richard Chamberlin, who seems shifty from the start, seemingly unnoticed by Lylah the mother (Diana Scarwid).  If you like the story, this is a nice suspenseful color interpretation, added credibility with Burgess Meredith and Ray McKinnon in supporting roles. 

AA576 Sinners of Hell, The (60) aka: Jigoku   This is a tale of things not of this world, the eternal limbo of dead children of Earth.  We will spend time with three very much alive sinners as they engage in betrayals, revenge, adultery, deceit...  just name the mortal sin, a human condition, cards stacked against us all in this concept of what's after.  These who have sinned will meet at the gates of hell.  The film proceeds from one disaster to the other, leading us to the pits of Hell, where we see the true results of the film's budget.  You will lose count of the number of people killed in the first hour.  A film so nihilistic and downbeat, no one could handle it in 1960.  The sequences in Hell disturb because they are played straight.  Widescreen   Japanese with English subtitles  BA

AA582 Sins of Silence (96) Isn't that a Simon and Garfunkel song?  Former nun Molly (Lindsay Wagner) now rape counselor, refuses to release interview files of a rape victim against the order of the court.  The rape victim, also a nun, engaged in sexual encounters with young men, and partied hard, behavior that will make the trial difficult for her.  And also, the lies the raped nun tells may result in her losing her case against the rapist.  The raped woman okays the release of the files, which are subsequently used against her in court.  Is her case doomed?

AA605 Vampire Doll, The (70) aka: Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu: Chi wo sû ningyô  aka: La muñeca que bebe sangre   The dead girlfriend is not in her grave, and her boyfriend Yuko has disappeared.  His sister and her boyfriend travel to Yuko's  ancestral home and are given a cold welcome by Yuko's mother.  A nearby town reveals the dark history as we learn the terrible secret of the vampire doll.  Green cat eyes and a knife in the back, a vampire, ghost or ghoul?  One of these, since a mannequin is all that is inside her coffin.   Widescreen  Japanese with English subtitles  BA

SOUTH OF THE BORDER AND MEXI MONSTER FILMS

AA540 Crying Woman, The (33) aka: La llorona  The wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her children returns from the dead to haunt the living, and infect minds causing more death and horror.  This a  staple of Mexican horror, and this is the first sound version of the lore.  The creepy cry comes from a ghostly apparition.  Spooky for 1933.  The Mexican banshee, ghost, boogeyman (woman) all mixed into one.  Spanish with English subtitles  BA

AA528 Fury of the Karate Experts, The (82) aka: La furia de los karatecas   Two sisters, one good, the other, bad, fight over a magic crystal from outer space.  Santo in battles with karate killers who are controlled by the evil sister.  Filmed in Florida, a companion piece to 'Fist of Death'.  Jiggling boobs, killer gorillas, bongo-playing natives, assassins, Satanic rituals.....  This being the 'last' true Santo film, it's really loaded.  English dubbed  BA

AA577 Trampa Infernal (89) aka: Hell's Trap   Burrito Horror slasher from Mexico that delivers the goods.  Paintball enthusiasts Nacho and Maurico decide to up their fierce spirit of competitiveness by traveling to a remote forest where numerous people are being butchered by what locals believe to be a rogue bear.  The contest?  Slaying the beast.  But the killings are not from a bear, but a sadistic Viet Nam vet psycho killer who considers all humans his enemy.  Luckily for us, there are more people involved for him to kill.  A serene lake, busty babes, mullet-haired Mexi man that thinks he's Rambo, a creepy-Slipknot-masked finger-knifed killer that out blades Freddy when doing painful barbaric kills (serrated, no clean slice, but jagged tearing!), jungle traps, action....  Be careful Nacho!  A Frank Stallone song would have been so apropos for the closing credits but alas.  Spanish with English subtitles  BA

WESTERNS

AA459 Hate Thy Neighbor (68) aka: Odia il prossimo tuo  Listed in catalog at #L207 with a brief description, this is a much needed upgrade!  With George Eastman.  English Dubbed  

AA552 Reward's Yours, the Man's Mine, The (69) aka: El Puro  aka: La taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io   Cute saloon girl Rosie (Rosalba Neri) shelters an alcoholic gun slinging outlaw drifter named El Puro (Robert Woods) from a group of relentless bounty hunters after he is beaten in the saloon after refusing to leave.  Very cinematic, with vivid colors and damaged characters, violent shootouts and really, did the bounty hunters have to beat Rosie to death in a scene so violent I felt like I was watching a giallo? I mean, I'm glad they did, always up for a shock, but man.  El Puro is (almost) tired of running (riding?).  Time to Kill.  Also starring the guy who most resembled Klaus Kinski, Aldo Berti, and let's not forget Lisa Seagram.   Widescreen English Dubbed Upgrade!   BA

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