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142. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008)

Tôkyô Zankoku Keisatsu

“She is the only actress in the world who can look so beautiful just standing in the midst of a gushing spray of blood.”–Yoshihiro Nishimura on Eihi Shiina

“I wouldn’t say I liked being covered in blood… [but] I really love the surrealism and beauty of these scenes, while I’m getting covered . . . → Read More: 142. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008)

366 UNDERGROUND: DEAR GOD, NO! (2011)

DIRECTED BY: James Anthony Bickart

FEATURING: Jett Bryant, Madeline Brumby, Paul McComiskey, Olivia LaCroix, John Collins, Shane Morton, Nick Morgan, Rusty Stache, Nick Hood, Jim Sligh, Rachelle Lynn, Jim Stacy

PLOT: The Impalers are a vicious motorcycle gang rampaging across the land indulging in drug

trafficking and other antisocial behavior, like rape and nun . . . → Read More: 366 UNDERGROUND: DEAR GOD, NO! (2011)

LIST CANDIDATE: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1962)

DIRECTED BY: Joseph Green

FEATURING: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels

PLOT: Against her wishes, a surgeon keeps his fiancée’s severed head alive while he searches

for a new body for her. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die bypasses the rational portion of the frontal cortex and directly stimulates . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1962)

ISLE OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE (1971)

* This is the fifth installment in the series “Karloff’s Bizarre and Final Six Pack.” Snake People (AKA Isle Of The Snake People) feels like pure Jack Hill; that is, Jack Hill the exploitation guru to whom Quentin Tarantino has built an altar. The opening narration is a duller variant of Criswell’s repetitive but puerile Plan . . . → Read More: ISLE OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE (1971)

HOUSE OF EVIL (1968)

* This is the second installment in the series “Karloff’s Bizarre and Final Six Pack.” Boris Karloff‘s series of Mexican films is anything but routine.  Of the entire ill-reputed group, House of Evil (1968) has something that most resembles a traditional plot.  It is orthodox only in that it is a retread of the old dark . . . → Read More: HOUSE OF EVIL (1968)

FEAR CHAMBER (1968)

*This is the first part of “Karloff’s Bizarre and Final Six Pack,” a series examining Karloff’s final films. A lot of people have expressed the wish that horror icon Boris Karloff could have ended his career with Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets (1968).  But Karloff, on his last leg, pushed himself through six more movies, four of which were . . . → Read More: FEAR CHAMBER (1968)

ROGER CORMAN’S THE TERROR (1963)

Roger Corman‘s The Terror has been in public domain for half of forever.  The result, predictably, has been a plethora of DVD prints, ranging from wretched to execrable.  It is a legendary film that his its equal share of fans and detractors.  The Terror marks the only time Boris Karloff actually “starred” in a film directed . . . → Read More: ROGER CORMAN’S THE TERROR (1963)

CAPSULE: OBLIVION (1994)

DIRECTED BY: Sam Irvin

FEATURING: Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, Jimmie F. Skaggs, a parade of C-list all-stars

PLOT:  Many years from now, on a faraway planet, a one-eyed alien villain comes to the frontier

outpost of Oblivion to raise a ruckus and murder the sheriff in cold blood.  It’s up to the sheriff’s . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: OBLIVION (1994)

CAPSULE: MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! (2010)

DIRECTED BY: Mark Hartley

FEATURING: Roger Corman, Eddie Romero, Sid Haig, Pete Tombs, Jack Hill, Joe Dante, John Landis,  Marlene Clark, Judy Brown, R. Lee Ermey, Danny Peary, Dick Miller

PLOT: Documentary covering exploitation films made in the Philippines in the 1970s and 1980s,

both by Filipinos and by American companies looking for cheap labor . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! (2010)

CAPSULE: THE MANSTER (1959)

DIRECTED BY: George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane

FEATURING: Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Jane Hylton, Terri Zimmern

PLOT:  A Japanese scientist corrupts an American foreign correspondent in Tokyo, eventually

turning him into a two-headed monster…. um, man-ster. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: When you’re titling your movie The Manster, you’re probably not expecting to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE MANSTER (1959)

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