Like a shot of adrenaline reviving an overdose victim, this here Crimson Screens zine is lean and mean on the scene. I was fortunate enough to get issues 7 and 8. Issue #7 is the awesome action issue. As a person who has purposefully purchased Bruno Mattei's "Strike Commando" twice, this surely did make me one smiling schmuck. The issue focuses on VHS and DVD treasures with short and sweet reviews that are funny, blunt and even does bios for Reb Brown and Michael Dudikoff. Top tier stuff with a double whammy of The Executioner 1 and 2 posters adorned on the back of the issue! Issue #8 goes back to the horror scene. A great zine and a worthwhile read and it's always great to support a fellow film fan. He graced me with these issues no questions asked. The least I can do is help spread the word.
Ah, how I miss having free time and no life. Why not be productive? Sure, here you go. Long time, no see. I'll be posting from time to time, do fun stuff and all that bonus stuff that usually come with reading a blog.
Taken from the Harmony Vision VHS release of the Golden Harvest film "Stoner" with Angela Mao and George Lazenby, here's three terrific trailers to tide you over. The films are 1977's "The Hills Have Eyes," 1978's "Patrick" and 1973's "The Cheerleaders." Enjoy!
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Jim Kelly and Gloria Hendry train with Scatman Crothers. And from the looks of it, Crothers can teach kung fu and have the gift of 'The Shining' years later and still is able to hang out with Scott Baio a few years later? What a teacher, and what a soundtrack. The music by Dennis Coffey & Luchi De Jesus is pretty interesting. You get actual music tracks and repeats with the sound effects or audio from the film used in the mix. Bootleg? Still, it is funky beyond belief, and enjoy the funk! http://www.mediafire.com/?dtqzzrzzvmx
Hi! I know, it has been a while. No, I didn't forget about the "Three on a Meathook" post I used as an excuse to update, but didn't follow through on. Really? All in due time. This clip is the raison d'etre of the blog! Take one hunchbacked Paul Naschy, give him a violent streak when picked on, add some Frankenstein elements and Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and gabs of gore and grue... Euro Horror delights await! Don't take my word for it, here's a sneak peek.
Trick or Treat! 'Tis the season for Halloween fun, and here's a little something just for you! The third episode of Jonathan Ross' show, that shines its spotlight on the "Godfather of Gore" himself! Enjoy!
Johnny Rotten once said "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" and in regards to the euro-trash film "Mad Foxes", this is one great swindle. When is a rape-revenge, karate fight squad, Nazi obsessed biker gang movie not what it promises to be? By having the main character care not about his girl's rape, but rather his car and honor and picking up other women along the way, the karate scenes are poorly done and despite the fact the "bikers" (who actually ride dirt bikes) love swastika armbands, they politely wear them inside out and only show the symbol when they mean business. The film starts off with Swiss heavy metal band Krokus, and also ends with a ballad by the band as well. This movie is the equivalent of a bad mix tape, since not many movies use music that ranges from heavy metal to swing jazz and disco. And despite compiling extremely different genre elements together like a bad mix tape, it is a hugely enjoyable and entertainingly fast-paced 76 minutes. From the bored, indifferent dubbing job its given and the hilarious emoting, this is a prime example of an exploitation/trash film.
Our anti-hero of the film, Hal (Robert O'Neil, aka, José Gras, of 'Hell of the Living Dead') is an older, greasy looking yuppie who's out for a drive on the town with a girlfriend who barely turned Eighteen and what better way to celebrate than getting her drunk at a club? When our lothario and his little lady reach a stoplight and start making out, the head biker (who is keen on dressing up like a gestapo) knocks on the car window and interrupts the mood by belittling Hal, judging him on his car and spits on his face and drives off. While Hal drives away, a biker following him crashes into a car for no apparent reason, having his dirt bike explode. Shaking off this sheer insanity, our couple enters the club where he's apparently a regular. After ordering the last bottle of champagne and watching a swing dance scene that seems to go on for more than necessary, he offers his young gal more liquor at his place.
Walking towards his car, the couple is interrupted by the gang yet again, judging him on his car (again) and blaming Hal for their friend's death. Since the gang has their swastikas showing, you can tell they aren't in a nice mood. Hal gets beaten badly, while his underage girl gets groped and they strip her down, find out she's a virgin (How? Bloody fingers.) and rape her, they leave and laugh and mention a funeral service at the amphitheater. After Hal leaves the hospital, he calls up his friend who just happens to be a sensei for a karate dojo. The training scenes of his class show that the bunch probably wouldn't even graduate to yellow belt. Hal asks his pal to get some poorly done chop socky revenge on his biker enemies at the amphitheater where they'll have an alcohol funeral pyre for their fallen comrade.
Hal crashes the service, calling on his karate cronies to exact revenge. Some sorry fight choreography later, the biker leader willingly lets his penis be grasped by the sensei who then asks Hal: "What should I do?" and what do you think his reply will be? "CUT IT OFF!" His manhood is hacked off and shoved in his mouth. Definitely not kosher! After a sense of accomplishment, Hal happens to get another gal and forget all about his Eighteen year old sweetie, while the karate class gets their training cut short by a grenade and a bullet barrage by the biker baddies. Before lodging a bullet in sensei's brain, they get the home address of Hal and locate his fancy car, beat up an old man for information while a kid watches and warns Hal to go.
Getting in his car, bikers in pursuit, the film goes from chase scene to sex on the beach. The woman changes her mind, tells her mate to help hitchhike a ride. As luck would have it, Hal lost the bikers and happens across the lady in need of a lift. As the lady asks for a ride for two, Hal says there's only room for one and it better be her. The gal leaves her companion behind for a potentially erotic and possibly deadly ride with Hal. Where does he go with his new lady in tow? His family's house out in the country. And what a house! They have horses, maids and a groundskeeper. Mom's in a wheelchair, but Dad can still walk and they both talk about their riches until Hal interrupts and they are treated to idle chat and dinner. Hal and the hitchhiker get kinky at the table, play footsie and excuse themselves and get hot and heavy in the hallway and also in a bathtub filled with grotesque yellow water! Golden baths instead of showers for the lovers, perhaps?
How can Hal and his lady top last night's antics? By going sight-seeing, hunting, fornicating in the woods and horseback riding. Things aren't calm and cool, for our biker pals are getting drunk and rowdy while one of them gets fully nude to take a piss and starts kicking his pals playfully. The bikers get to Hal's house, swastika armbands in full view and the gardener gets a bit too sassy and gets gardening shears shoved in his mouth for his troubles. While some of the help gets shot, the parents get it just as bad. Hal's mom gets shot in the head, causing her wheelchair to rapidly roll back and daddy gets a bullet spray. While Hal and this gal return to the stable, another housekeeper gets brutally stabbed in the stomach, causing her intestines to spew out.
The bikers feel happy avenging their leader's lopped-off phallus and their dead comrade as well. Hal's none to happy to return home and seeing everyone dead, so he starts snooping around to find the motor psychos. He finds the big nude, kickboxing rapist hanging out in the back of a bar on the toilet. Despite the biker's penchant to show his genitalia, Hal quickly shoots a hole in his hand and ends the nude nazi biker's life by dropping a grenade in the toilet. His next destination is a junkyard where another biker is in sight, and a game of shotgun hide and seek turns into a car chase that seals the fate of the biker in an homage to the film "Easy Rider." Finding the rest of the biker lackeys hanging out in a film studio. One of miscreants, already knowing Hal is on the rampage, is waiting in the wings with his switchblade while other bloke is in the middle of an S & M Nazi sex session with a 3rd rate Ilsa clone.
Switchblade biker rumbles with Hal, only to fail miserably and get his throat slashed and gut gored. Then Hal crashes the Nazi sexcapades, shoots the Ilsa clone and her submissive biker lover. Vengeance is Hal's... right? He drives off home, celebrating his victory with Krokus blaring on the soundtrack, but wait a minute. Having eliminated all those insignificant biker lackeys... the castrated kommandant is nowhere to be found. Coming home to celebrate with his lady, he holds Hal and the señorita hostage with a surprise ending that you won't forget. Also known as "Los Violadores" (the rapists), this film is available on a region free widescreen PAL DVD released by ABC DVD, that comes dubbed in English, (Castillian) Spanish, and German. But the notorious JEF Films, under the label Euroland Movies, released a region free NTSC copy of the PAL disc. So, that means you have two options for seeking this one out.
Here's the uncut(!) trailer, which gives away the whole movie and may not be up for much longer:
See the Mad Foxes engage in brutality and bloodshed:
Growing up consisted of having the folks and friends taking me along to double/triple features at shitty theaters and drive-ins, leaving a television in my room to fight sleep with horror movie hosts, late-night features, samurai sundays and then they topped it off with vhs rentals acting as babysitters. I've never looked back.
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