SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX
An evangelical film with a difference, which is to say that unlike most such films SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX, hailing from 1972, is almost good
HEAVEN CAN HELP
An uber-rarity that for years has been near the top of the want lists of quite a few film collectors (this one included), HEAVEN CAN HELP was made by the late LA based, Iranian born trash movie auteur Tony Zarindast (1934-2016)
THE WANDERING EARTH
Here we have China’s attempt at Hollywood-styled blockbuster moviemaking: an unapologetically loud, unharmonious science fiction themed epic that prizes aggressive escapism above all else
A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1997)
The one and only animated version of the Hong Kong fantasy-romance classic A CHINESE GHOST STORY, scripted, produced and voiced (in part) by the original film’s producer Tsui Hark
THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE
This 1969 science fiction mindbender hails from Denmark, and remains one of the better films of its type
THE HANGED MAN
An interesting American made “weird western” that premiered on the small screen
THE MANSON MASSACRE
The most notorious of the “Manson-sploitation” movies, an unabashedly exploitive sixty nine minute spectacle that purports to dramatize the August 1969 killings of Sharon Tate and her companions
YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
ULVETID
A most interesting and unorthodox “horror” movie from Denmark
DEFIANCE
THE DEFIANCE OF GOOD was one of the better films to emerge from the golden age of porn, and this novelization was written by the famed porn novelist and poet Michael Perkins