Thanks Jacky!
Another thing Im not sure where to place certain films is the ones that are based around sci fi experiments but are also horror monster movies (Twilight People, Blood Island, Bloody Apes). Same with Environmental Sci Fi Horror (Frogs, Pirahna)
Where should I put those? In Science Fiction or in Horror/Thrillers?
Are those review pages that are missing the review (but are still listed, possiby with trailer etc.) under construction or really missing a review?
I could contribute some pinky violence and Chiba reviews
And with or without dvd comments?
The Exterminator(1980) Written/Directed By: James Glickenhaus
While in vietnam an soldier is captured by the enemy and is about to be killed when a another soldier saves him. After the war the two become best friends and even happen to work together at some type of a loading dock. One day while John is getting ready to put up a crate of beer when he sees a gang putting the beer in their trunk so he begs them to leave but they disagree and hold a switchblade to his neck then Michael comes out of nowhere and saves John’s ass again after John thanks Michael for helping they go have a beer together. Michael drinks his beer and tells John that he has to get home to see his wife and kids. After seeing his children telling them how much he loves them he leaves and on the way out the gangmembers beat him to a bloody pulp so much Michael is in a bodycast, after the incident Johnny goes to see Michael’s wife at the playground to tell her that her husband is the hospital. Johnny promises Michael that he will get the people who did this so then he goes on the street asking questions and gets answers from a gang member, he didn’t have anything to say at first but that all changes when the gang member sees the flame thrower in his face and gives directions where the other gang members are. When he gets to the location where they are he knocks down the door and makes all the whores leave so he can get down to business, he kills everyone that is in there but leaves one guy alive for fun. Soon after he leaves the cops arrive with a corny detective to investigate the massacre so cheesy detective gets answers from a prostitute with an heroin addiction that needs her fix so she gives in and gives some answers. Even after getting revenge on the gang members John doesn’t stop killing , he goes to kill a crime boss by wanting to turn him into hamburger meat after turning him into nice red meat he leaves. Later on he sees the rest of th gang members so he steals some guys bike and drives out ot kill them the gang thinks its the same guy they met earlier but when he takes off his helmet the get a good surprise and after one of their members is killed the rest drive off but later the car blows up. The Exterminator is mainly inspired by Taxi Driver and Death wish. The Exterminator is a lost Grindhouse 80’s classic and is one hell of a vigilante revenge movie.
Pete:I’ll try to do more later
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Are those review pages that are missing the review (but are still listed, possiby with trailer etc.) under construction or really missing a review?
I could contribute some pinky violence and Chiba reviews
And with or without dvd comments?
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All the pages with no reviews are open to be added to. All ya gotta do is post your reviews in here until the site accepts new contributors.
If you want to add DVD info, you can but the DVD spec info isnt esp needed for reviews. We’re mainly interested in just the films themselves.
Me: Thanks man! Ill add it asap for ya! Ill be putting it under Genre Mix Em Ups (revenge, nam vet, vigilante)
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NOTE: If you guys want to have writing pseudonyms esp for The Deuce, you can do that too.
ok, here goes
Viva Chiba
The Bodyguard (1976)
The Bodyguard is best known for a scene that doesn’t even belong to the movie. Bodyguard Kiba was originally released in 1973 but before it hit the US grindhouses it had not only been blessed with a typically poor english dub but also some extra flesh. Starting with the famous opening monologue, â€
btw, these were originally written to another board so if you see some weird references or something else nonsensical let me know
The Executioner (Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken) (1974)
Teruo Ishii’s The Executioner just might be the most over the top martial arts film in Shinichi Chiba’s career. Endless silly humour is accompanied by quality action and some incredibly brutal violence. You’re likely to fall off your chair during some of the comedy bits… although the humour can’t be described very intelligent or clever. The martial arts scenes are pretty good too, and definitely brutal. Near the end Yasuaki Kurata enters the screen and delivers his best Bruce Lee imitation with a straigh face. The camerawork pretty good throughout and not too shaky, although for some reason I recall once thinking so. Anyone with a taste for â€
some non-Toei pinky and Roman
Rica (Konketsuji Rika) (1972)
Toho’s take on the Toei dominated bad girl genre doesn’t open so good. There’s certain off putting elements (related to pregnancy) and the shiny visuals of their competitor are nowhere to be found. I was already missing Toei’s iconic pinky violence queens. But I changed my mind real fast. 15 minutes in and I had realized Rica is a fucking fusion of great genre elements. It may not have the glossy look but but it’s got plenty of kick and ass. It’s mean, violent, fun and sounds good. Just like our lovely heroine, Rica.
Rika Aoki is something different from the usual genre stars. Her character is young and so is she. Toei stars like Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto were barely legal when they entered the business but they both looked and acted older. They were also more distant, more movie star kind of personalities. Rika on the other hand feels more like a real life girl. She displays more energy, less gloss and some great teen angst. You could argue she’s got lesser looks than her Toei sisters but in fact that made me like her even more. She’s far more approachable and she’s got more real eroticism that Miki and Reiko put together. Double the effect if you got a thing for school girls.
And lets not forget the final knock down; she sings in the movie. And she sings well, better than most genre stars. Her singing is included as a minor sub-plot (that won’t develop anywhere) which is good example of the movie’s structure. Appart from the firm backstory (rare in the genre) the plot is pretty much non-existent but the storyline makes great use of different elements from several sub-genres, mostly girl gang and high school films. You probably won’t notice the lack of actual plot until during the second half, which is a bit less wild than the first. The ending however is so damn cool that it’s easy to forgive. Besides, after the satisfying finale we’re treated with one of the coolest ending credits sequences I of the 70’s.
The R1 dvd release by Media Blasters’ sister company Exploitation Digital isn’t too bad. There’s a problem with pixelization in some scenes, and the sharp and grainy presentation doesn’t make it any less noticable. It bothered be a bit in the beginning, so I turned sharpness down by a bit which gave the image a more solid look. The transfer is also interlaced. Other than those problems this is very good job with minimal edge enhancement and excellent colours. No problems with sharpness or contrast levels either. Overall very acceptable presentation on smaller screens but I don’t know if this is gonna fare well on bigger screens. Extras feature a nice photo gallery, original trailers for the Rica series plus bonus trailers. The subtitle colour is yellow.
Hana to hebi (Flower and Snake) (1974)
Media Blasters does an heroic job by finally bringing some Nikkatsu to US markets. Appart from Artsmagic’s Angel Guts box set don’t think there’s any official releases available. MB’s choise of title is not a very surprising one; Masaru Konuma’s original 1974 Hana to hebi. The new generation Flower and Snake films by Takashi Ishii were already released on dvd so it’s time to move back to the famous original. As the dvd case states; â€
Awesome work HF! Adding it right now.
If you guys can remember to include the GENRE/SUBGENRE, release year, distributor and director with your reviews it would be great help too. Thanks!
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The Executioner (1974)
Toei
Teruo Ishii
Karate Inferno: The Executioner 2 (1974)
Toei
Teruo Ishii
Karate Warriors (1976)
Toei
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
The Bodyguard (1973 / 1976)
Toei
Tatsuichi Takamori / Simon Nuchtern (US version)
Rica (1972)
Toho
Ko Nakahira
Flower and Snake (1974)
Nikkatsu
Masaru Konuma
pinky violence
Deliquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (Zubeko bancho: zange no neuchi mo nai) (1971)
Worthless to Confess, the fourt part in the Deliquent Girl Boss series, opens with a scene where the girls are watching Abashiri bangaichi film in prison and going crazy over Ken Takakura. Reminded me of how I watch some idol films myself… okay, back to the movie; One year later the girls are all out, although released at different times, and trying honest living and staying out of trouble. The film follows mainly Rika, played by the sweet Reiko Oshida.
Worthless to Confess is nice fresh air in the pinky violence genre. None of the usual madness and psychedelia of Ishii and the likes is here to be found. Instead the film is enormously entertaining and loaded with humour, music, ultra cool 70’s fashion, positive girl gang attitude and a very cute lead. I’m happy Reiko Oshida never agreed to â€
Got it! Thanks again HF!
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LB: What do you think? Vampyros Lesbos in the Dykesploitation subgenre or under the Horror or the Surreal Cinema genre?
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Hmmm. It’s not clear-cut horror, of course, and the “Dyke” stuff is quite minimal for the most part. So I’d go with Surreal.
Here’s a pic that could be added to the “Theaters” section: Detroit’s United Artists theater
I made a small edit for the Criminal Woman review (see the bolded part). I reviewed these in a row so I only mentioned Panik House in the first review but now it’s better to mention it in each review
Girl Boss Guerilla (Sukeban gerira) (1972)
Norifumi Suzuki’s third instalment in the Sukeban series isn’t quite what it seems. It’s a biker gang film but goes agains most genre traditions in both story and style. It’s also one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. Once again we get to witness Suzuki’s grudge against the authorities as he spends the first 20 minutes making fun of almost every authority figure imaginable. Monks and nuns get their share, as do doctors, husbands and men in general. There’s a few short glipses of strong violence later in the film but mainly Girl Boss Guerilla is all about light weight entertainment and girls kicking ass. Most of the film takes place in Kyoto where many scenes shot on public areas with real people instead of fully staged scenes with studio actors. This works nicely and brings some freshess to the outdoor scenes.
While Reiko Ike (who’s plays a supporting role here) really got to shine in Criminal Woman, this is Miki Sugimoto’s moment of glamour. Well, maybe not glamour but she looks really good and even a little bit sweet in Girl Boss Guerilla. Miki also sings one of the songs on the soundtrack. While she not the greatest singer it’s always nice to have one of the main actresses singing instead of a professional singer. There’s another and much better song in the film when Ichiro’s (Michitaro Mizushima) old pal arrives and writes a song for the lovers. You could argue there’s a minor glitch in the scene where he performs the song as he’s using a guitar but all you can hear coming out from the speakers is piano tunes…
Suzuki often revisits the same themes in his movies and in Girl Boss Guerilla I spotted one of the more interesting ones. There’s s brief moment of Reiko walking on the streets of Kyoto that kinda reminded me of the numerous festival scenes in Suzuki’s hugely popular mid/late 70’s Truck Yaro series (although I’m not sure if anyone else is gonna see a connection here). In Truck Yaro Bunta Sugawara (and usually Kinya Aikawa) would visit one local festival around Japan in almost every movie. The scene in Girl Boss Guerilla is not a festival scene but has similiar feel and immediately brought Truck Yaro to my mind.
One thing I love about the movie is that it has the most awesome nude scenes. These scenes are cool as hell and often humoristic (especially some of the sex scenes) and Suzuki has managed to shoot them basically without any perverted voyeurism fell. Miki arriving the beach toppless is my second favourite nude scene of all time right behind Michael Caine in Get Carter. Suzuki’s always been good with these scenes and I think it’s because he himself would get easily bored and always felt the need to spice the scenes up and do things differently compared to other directors. But then again, it’s hardly surprising Suzuki excels in this area as too. There’s no denying he was one of the most gifted men working on japanese cinema in the late 60’s and 70’s. Although Girl Boss Guerilla does not rank among his most ambitious work it’s an extremely enjoyable film for those who don’t mind some very lowbrow comedy.
The Panik House dvd displanys some edge enhancement at times which prevents the transfer from being perfect. It does not however prevent the transfer from being one of the best looking presentations I have ever seen for a 70’s movie. On the audio commentary we have asian cinema columnist Wyatt Doyle and the (former) Panik House president Matt Kennedy. I haven’t listened to the whole track but it seemed like a great improvement over the previous Panik House commentaries. Both men seem to know what they’re talking about and tell some interesting behing the scenes stories.
The original trailer comes with a few glimpses of interesting deleted footage + footage from some other film, possibly another instalment in the series. Toei often promoted their films with footage taken from other pictures that sometimes had no other connection than the leading star. Interestingly the sunset scene looks totally different in the trailer. In the film it’s all yellow and orange, but in the trailer there’s no sunset anywhere. Pure daylight colour scheme. And the thing is, both look 100% natural. I don’t know what to think of it so won’t. The rest of the extras consist of photo galleries and useless production notes by Chris D.
(Toei, Norifumi Suzuki) ← not a part of the review, don’t copy paste this
Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Kyofu joshikoko: boko rinchi kyoshitsu) (1973)
What do you get when you mix all girls’ high school and pinky violence? Lots of lesbian sex in the school bathroom that’s for sure. But since were’re not interested in such things, what else? Well, first of all, this is no ordinary high school but a school for girls that didn’t quite fit the normal schools. The young chicks the government couldn’t handle. The opening scene with the girls punishing the poor deliquent by draing her blood out should give you some taste of what’s to come.
Terrifying Girls’ High School is the second Norifumi Suzuki film in the box set and comes with the same leading cast as Sukeban gerira; Miki Sugimoto as the lead, Ema Ryoko (who once again gets her shirt ripped in a fight against Miki) as the villain, and Reiko Ike, who’s given probably the coolest introduction scene of the decade, in a supporting role. Yoko Mihara also appears in small role. But unlike Girl Boss Guerilla, this film is much darker in tone and more violent. Some scenes are genuinely disturbing although there’s also lots of humour and a very cool soundtrack to lighten the tone a bit.
Suzuki’s usual mockery of the authorities goes so over the top that it’s hard to say if he’s really aiming at a political target or just having fun his own way. However, when the torture methods used by American soldiers in Vietnam find their way into the movie I don’t think there’s two ways about it. Suzuki himself has stated that he liked to insert (more or less) indirect political and social messages to his movies, as did many other japanese directors of the 70’s. In terms of exploitation content Lynch Law Classroom is clearly stronger than the other three films in the collection. It’s an excellent, anarchistic film although not my favorite of the four films. But it’s quaranteed to find its fans.
The Panik House transfer features edge enhancement and sometimes an occational notch in quality. But this is still better than what most other studios can come up with, so generally speaking the transfer is very good. Extras are the usual ones (and Chris D back for commentary). The original trailer features shots from what seem like another instalment in the Terrifying Girls’ High School series (Lynch Law Classroom was the second film in the series).
(Toei, Norifumi Suzuki) ← not a part of the review, don’t copy paste this
ok, enough for the day ;D
LB: Added the UA Theater pic. Thanks man!
HF: All reviews added. Thanks! I just need the directors/distrib.
I have two reviews, one for Sword of Vengeance and the other, Baby Cart at The River Styx.
I’ll post them later.
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HF: All reviews added. Thanks! I just need the directors/distrib.
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huh? Distributor and director are mentioned at the end of each review like this:
(Toei, Norifumi Suzuki) ← not a part of the review, don’t copy paste this
Finished my first review. Or my latest effort anyway - 
Don’t know if Night Of The Living Dead is GrindHouse, but it’s really the iniation of all zombie films -here it is, you can use it if you want.
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HF: Sorry, I overlooked that. I added all the info. All set.
Bio: I forgot, we already have a NOTLD review, but we still need the other Dead film reviews. Thanks!
How dare you?!?! - Just kittenz’, I’ll have my Dawn review later. Me sleepy, me bed.
Im tired myself, Ive worked outside lugging wood around and worked on the site all day. I gotta take a break for today.