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Uchu kara no messeji DIRECTED BY: Kinji Fukasaku FEATURING: Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Masazumi Okabe, Vic Morrow, Makoto Satô, Etsuko Shihomi, Sonny Chiba PLOT: A race of evil robotic samurai conquer a peaceful tribe of leaf-headed aliens, who send out eight magic space nuts to track down reluctant heroes to save their planet. . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MESSAGE FROM SPACE (1978) DIRECTED BY: Russell Mulcahy FEATURING: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside, Virginia Madsen PLOT: Opposed by a ruthless corporation, an Immortal investigates whether it’s time to remove the ozone shield blanketing the Earth, while he’s being hunted by another Immortal. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Highlander II is just crazy enough that it . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: HIGHLANDER II: RENEGADE VERSION (1991) Ju Ma Pao DIRECTED BY: Yu Chick-Lim FEATURING: Polly Kwan (as Sun Kuan Rin Feng), Cheung Lik, Li Chung-Chien, Hsiao Wang PLOT: A teenage princess learns kung fu so that she can return from exile inside a magic mountain to claim her kingdom from usurpers.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: RETURN OF THE KUNG FU DRAGON (1976) AKA The Incredible Torture Show DIRECTED BY: Joel Reed FEATURING: Seamus O’Brien, Luis de Jesus PLOT: A sadist who runs a Grand Guignol off-off-Broadway show as a cover for his white slavery ring kidnaps a theater critic and a ballerina to design his greatest production yet. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: I . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976) DIRECTOR: John Guillermin FEATURING: Peter Elliot, George Antoni, Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton PLOT: As the title explains, Kong didn’t die at the end of the previous film, and this time round he gets a girlfriend—one his own size for a change. Do they live happily ever after? No, of course not. Mean-spirited people attack them . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: KING KONG LIVES (1986) To the alternative cineaste, Doris Wishman is somewhat akin to what Mary, the Mother of Christ, is to Catholics. She was a considerable influence on luminaries such as John Waters, Roger Corman, and Quentin Tarantino. Like them, Wishman approached genre films with an idiosyncratic enthusiasm for the art and the business. Her films are sexploitation roughies, nudie-cuties, . . . → Read More: BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (1965) 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) 3 Mighty Men; 3 Giant Men DIRECTED BY: Tevfik Fikrat Ucat FEATURING: Aytekin Akkaya, Yavuz Selekman, Dogan Tamer PLOT: Captain America and Mexican wrestling champion Santo travel to Istanbul to help defeat evil antiques stealer Spider. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It has its illucid moments, but there’s not enough consistent high absurdity . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: 3 DEV ADAM (1973) DIRECTED BY: Michael Schultz FEATURING: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, George Burns PLOT: Four loveable lads from Heartland, America form a band, overcome the corrupting influences of the music industry, and save their town from the evil forces that want to steal four prized musical instruments which can guarantee peace and love . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (1978) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Olivier Rollin (as Oliver Martin), Maurice Lemaître, Caroline Cartier, Ursule Pauly, Catherine Castel (as Cathy Tricot), Marie-Pierre Castel (as Pony Tricot), Michel Delahaye PLOT: A young man discovers his father has kidnapped a vampire and is studying her in hopes of learning the secret of immortality. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE NUDE VAMPIRE [LA VAMPIRE NUE] (1970) |
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