GODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
PINK LADY’S MOTION PICTURE
Pink Lady was the 1970s Japanese forerunner to the Spice Girls, and this was their unimpressive film debut
SQUAREWORLD
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
HAUNTED SAMURAI
This 1970 Nikkatsu release is allegedly “the most gory ninja film of its era”
THE BURNING BUDDHA MAN
Cut-out animation, H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie and Buddhism—an irresistible combination, I say
VIOLENCE VOYAGER
The second feature by Japan’s Ujicha, following the mind-roasting BURNING BUDDHA MAN
LADY EXTERMINATOR
Shaw Brothers action movie madness!
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
TURNING JAPANESE
A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film