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Shocking Asia II: The Last Taboos

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Shocking Asia II: The Last Taboos

Story : Author: haildevilman from Tokyo, Japan wrote
This film is more of a travelogue that you'll never see on public TV. It's actually pretty good in a haunting way. The Hobbit House still exists in Manila. Apparently it does great business despite the constantly changing owners. The prostitution scenes were clearly exaggerated. And did anyone else notice the shark fishermen (In footage seen previously in Mondo Cane.) were all missing the same limb. (Except for the poor guy missing both arms.) I get the impression part 1 and 2 were filmed on the same trip. Both had a lot of sex and violence in them but not so much to cause disgust. except maybe the sex-change operation in part 1. I wonder how many of those places still exist the way they were. I live in Asia and sometimes wonder. My Japanese friends thought this doc was a scream.

Video Distributor : VDS Video

Year : 1986

Running time : 90 Minutes

Actors : /

Director :Emerson Fox

Red Dawn

Red Dawn

Story : It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops....under the banner of 'Woverines'!

Video Distributor : Warner Home Video

Year : 1985

Running time : 109 minutes

Actors : Patrick Swayze, C.Thomas Howell, lea Thompson, Ben Johnson

Director : John Milius

Mannaja

Mannaja

Story : Arriving in the mining town Suttonville, after claiming the bounty of a outlaw known as Burt Craven, a bounty hunter named Blade (armed with a hatchet instead of a gun) is hired by the town's wheelchair bound mayor McGowan and his corrupt associate Voller to track down McGowan's daughter Debra who has gone missing. Blade is unaware that Voller kidnapped Debra and is secretly working for a group of outlaws who are looting shipment of silver from the silver mines that are run the mine owner McGregor. Caught up in Suttonville's affairs, Blade not only has Voller and the outlaws to deal with, he also goes to settle a score with McGowan (who was responsible for the death of Blade's father) and takes on Voller and his gang who are out to gun him down.

Video Distributor : Muntel International

Year :1984

Running time :91 minutes

Actors : Maurizio Merli, John Steiner, Sonja Jeannine, Donal O' Brian

Director :Sergio Martino

Blood Beach

Blood Beach

Story : Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.

Video Distributor : Media

Year ; 1984

Running time : 92 minutes

Actors : David Huffman, mariana Hill, John Saxon, Burt Young

Director : Jeffrey Bloom

Connan the Barbarian

Connan The Barbarian

Story : A village is attacked by the evil ruler of the Snake Cult, Thulsa Doom and his evil warriors, when Thulsa Doom and his warriors kills his parents, a young boy named Conan is enslaved. Years later, Conan grows up and becomes a mighty warrior and is trained as a fighter. After years as a slave and as a gladiator, Conan is set free. Conan sets out on a quest as he vows to avenge his parents and solve the riddle of steel. Joined by a archer named Subotai, a beautiful thief who falls in love with Conan, Valeria and a Chinese wizard, Conan and his companions sets out to rescue Princess Yasmina, daughter of King Osric, from the Snake Cult, and get his revenge on Thulsa Doom and avenge his parents.

Video Distributor : Thorn EMI

Year : 1983

Running time :124 minutes

Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones , Sandhal Bergman, Ben Davidson

Director : John Milius

Wild Thing

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Wild Thing

Story : A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1988

Running time : 92 minutes

Actors : Rob Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi, Betty Buckley

Director : Max Reid

Savage Dawn

Savage Dawn

Story : A motorcycle gang take over a small city in Arizona.

Video Distributor : Video Screen

Year : 1986

Running time :98 minutes

Actors : Karen Black, George Kennedy, Richard Lynch

Director : Simon Nuchtern

Rambo's Revenge

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Rambo's Revenge

Aka : Il Giustiziere sfida la città

Story : A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.

Video Distributor : Eagle 6 Video

Year : 1984

Running time : 92 minutes

Actors : Thomas Milian, Joseph Cotten, Maria Fiore

Director : Umberto Lenzi

Golden Temple Amazons

Golden Temple Amazons

Aka : Les Amazones du temple D'or

Story : A missionary and his wife are killed by natives when they accidentally discover their golden temple, but his daughter is spared and is raised by the tribe. Fifteen years later, she seeks vengeance for her parents' murders and joins an expedition searching for the same golden temple.

Video Distributor : Shock Video

Year ; 1987

Running time : 86 minutes

Actors : Lina Romay, Analía Ivars, William Berger, Antonio Mayans, Eva León, Françoise Blanchard

Directors : Alain Payet & Jesus Franco (uncredited)

Phenomena

Phenomena

Story : In Switzerland, the teenager Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly), daughter of a famous actor, arrives in an expensive board school and shares her room with the French schoolmate Sophie (Federica Mastroianni). Jennifer is a sleepwalker, is capable of telepathically communicate with insects and has adaptation problem in the new school. While sleepwalking, she meets and becomes friend of a Scottish entomologist, Prof. John McGregor (Donald Pleasence), and his chimpanzee Tonga. Jennifer decides to help the investigation of Dr. McGregor about a serial killer that is killing young girls in that area. When her friend Sophie disappears and Dr. McGregor is killed, the scared Jennifer decides to call her lawyer and return to Los Angeles. She is invited to stay in the house of Frau Brückner (Daria Nicolodi) waiting for her flight, but the serial killer is already chasing her

Video Distributor : EVC

Year : 1985

Running time : 117 minutes

Actors : Dalila Di Lazzaro, Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Connely, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau

Director : Dario Argento

Prison For Women

Prison For Women

Aka : Prigione di donne

Story : Author: lazarillo wrote :
The Italians are famous for jumping on bandwagons, but it took them a little while (really until the 1980's) to jump on the WIP (women in prison) movie bandwagon in earnest. The 1970's Italian-made WIP films were few and far between and didn't really achieve either the action of of US-Filipino versions or the unmitigated sleaze of the Jess Franco ones (they were also overshadowed by the far more sleazy Italian "Nazi sexploitation" films of the era). The 1970's Italian WIP films usually weren't pure WIP films. "Women in Cellblock 7" is more of a Italian crime thriller. "Escape from a Woman's Prison" is more of hostage drama or a "terror" film. And this is partly a "nunsploitation" film since all the jailers here are nuns for some reason

Video Distributor : Thorn EMI

Year : 1984

Running time : 89 minutes

Actors : Erna Schürer, Marilù Tolo, Martine Brochard, Katia Christine, Cristina Galbó

Director : Brunello Rondi

Hitman

Hitman

Aka : American Commandos

Story : A group of Vietnam vets are sent to Southeast Asia to destroy drug-smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle. When they get there, they find that many of the drug gangs are run by other Vietnam vets

Video Distributor : Video Screen

Year : 1986

Running time : 89 minutes

Actors : Christopher Mitchum, John Philip Law, Franco Guerrero

Director : Bobby A. Suarez

Pieces

Pieces

Aka ; Mil gritos tiene la noche

Story : While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall (Ian Sera), they try to find the identity of the killer.

Video Distributor : CBS FOX

Year : 1985

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Ian Sera

Director : Juan Piquer Simón

Saigon

Saigon

Aka : Off Limits

Story : McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.

Video Distributor : CBS/FOX

Year : 1989

Running time :102 minutes

Actors : William Daffoe, Gregory Hines, Fred Ward, Amanda Pays

Director : Christopher Crowe

Bloodbath at the House of Death

Bloodbath at the House of Death

Story : Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a minister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.

Video Distributor : Thorn EMI

Year : 1984

Running time : 88 minutes

Actors : Vincent Price, Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson

Director : ray Cameron

Mission Force

Mission Force

Aka : Mai nei dak gung dui

Story : Set at some point during the thirties or forties, Japan is at war with China. During an attack on the Chinese forces, the Japanese capture four Western Generals. Fearing that if this news were to reach their troops it would affect their morale greatly, the Chinese hire Captain Don Wen (Jimmy Wang Yu) to form a commando squad and get the Generals back in four days. Don decides to regroup his old squad (consisting of thief Old Sun [Sun Yeuh], escape artist Grease Lightning [Gou Ling Feng], con artist Billy [David Tao] and his ex-girlfriend Lily [Brigitte Lin], the bumbling and apparently unnamed General [Fong Ching] and his buddy Stone [Shiu Bu Lia]) one last time to get the Generals back. Don is apparently killed in an attack but the group continues on regardless, with the aid of ex-wrestler Sammy (Jackie Chan in a small role) and his former manager Emily (Chang Ling) who trail the group to make sure they stay alive, so they'll have a share of the reward. Towards the end, the previously comical film takes a bizzare turn and climaxes at a Japanese bunker where the group go kamakaze and fight off a small army in the hope that the last survivor will be able to claim the reward. But are the Japanese the only villians?

Video Distributor : Review ( Muntel)

Year : 1984

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Jacky Chan, Yu Wang , Brigitte Lin, Yueh Sun, David Tao

Director : Yen-ping Chu

Kommando Leopard

Kommando Leopard

Story : A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government...

Video Distributor : Video Screen

Year : 1986

Running time : 102 minutes

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Lewis Collins, Cristina Donadio, Manfred Lehmann

Director : Antonio Margheriti

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul

Story : Dr. Eduardo Plarr, despite the name is an Anglo working in a Latin American country. His work is a return home after several years. He begins to form and re-establish friendships and begins an affair. All of this comes together to create problems when he is asked to help revolutionaries kidnap a diplomat.

Video distributor : Thorn EMI

Year : 1984

Running time : 96 minutes

Actors : Michael Caine, Richard Gere, bob Hoskins

Director : John MacKenzie

Getting Even

Monday, April 6, 2009

Getting Even

Aka : Deadbeat

Story : When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.

Video Distributor : Coverge Video

Year : 1985

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Chris Mulkey, Polly King, Scott Lawrence

Director : Harry Kerwin

Red Heat

Red Heat

Story ; An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with sadistic guards and in-mates. As she tries to survive in a world of deprivation and rape, her fiancée fights his own bureaucracy in an attempt to find her

Video Distributor : VDS

Year : 1986

Running time : 105 minutes

Actors : Linda Blair, Sylvia Kristel, William Ostrander, Sue kiel, Albert Fortell

Director : Robert Collector

Et Dieu... créa la femme

Et Dieu... créa la femme

Aka : En God Shiep de Vrouw, And God Created Woman

Story : In St. Tropez, the orphan Juliete Hardy is an eighteen years old woman sexually active and ahead of time, strongly desired by the wealthy middle age man Eric Carradine. She has a crush on Antoine Tardieu, the older son that works in Toulon of a poor family that owns a modest shipyard, but he just want to have one nightstand with her. When Juliete's stepparents decide to send her back to the orphanage because of her bad reputation in the town, Antoine's brother Michel Tardieu proposes to marry her and she accepts, and she begins to love him. But when the Tardieu family decides to sell the shipyard to Eric and Antoine returns to St. Tropez, her lust for him blossoms again and becomes an announced tragedy.

Video Distributor : Spectrum

Year : 1983

Running time : 95 minutes

Actors : Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean Louis Trintignant

Director : Roger Vadim

Silk

Silk

Story : Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens

Video Distributor : CNR Video

Year : 1987

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Cec Verrell, Bill McLaughlin, Fred Bailey

Director : Cirio H. Santiago

Les Démoniaques

Les Démoniaques

Aka : Duivelse Maagden , Demoniacs, Curse of the Living dead

Story : Four pirates(..labeled "wreckers" for they draw ships with light crashing into the shore to pillage them)ruthlessly rape and assault two blond young women as they walk to shore, appearing from the darkness in nothing but gowns. Soon the Captain(John Rico), already insane, is haunted by ghostly apparitions of those two girls they left for dead on the shore. Yet, somehow, the girls survive fending off yet another proposed attack by the pirates, making their way to the "haunted ruins" which holds a demonic presence, imprisoned by two guardians who can give them the power they seek in weakness needed for revenge.

Video Distributor : Video For Pleasure

Year ; 1983

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Joelle Coeur, Livea Lone, John Rico, Willy Braque, Paul Bisciglia

Director : Jean Rollin

Fleshburn

Fleshburn

Story : A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was sentenced to a mental hospital. One day, he escapes and kidnaps them and leaves them all in the middle of the desert.

Video Distributor : Van Gils Video

Year : 1986

Actors : Steve Kanaly, Karen Carlson, Macon McCalman, Robert Chimento

Director : George Gage

Bad Girls

Bad Girls

Aka : Bad Girls Dormitory

Story : Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout

Video Distributor : R.C.V 2001

Year : 1987

Running Time : 92 minutes

Actors : Carey Zuris, Teresa Farley, Natalie O'Connell, Rick Gianasi, Marita

Director : Tim Kincaid

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