Monday, August 18, 2008

Blind Woman's Curse

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Director: Teruo Ishii
Starring: Meiko Kaji
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"This variation on the Japanese "yakuza" (organized crime) genre focuses on a female yakuza leader in turn-of-the-century Japan. During a fight with a rival gang, she accidentally blinds a woman from another clan. The guilt she feels over this incident starts to affect her psychologically, leading her to question her commitment to the yakuza lifestyle."-© Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Black Caesar

Black Caesar (1973)
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Fred Williamson
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"Cult director Larry Cohen directed this violent blaxploitation film. Nasty racist John McKinney cripples a black shoeshine boy, who grows up to be Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), the Godfather of Harlem. The crimelord now has his tormentor McKinney (Art Lund) in his pocket, based on the cop's mob ties. Tommy's traitorous girlfriend Helen (Gloria Hendry) hands over the evidence, and McKinney moves in for the kill. But he may have underestimated the violent Tommy, who makes him shine his shoes in blackface while singing "Mammy." Rick Baker provided makeup effects, and James Brown did the music for this bloody oddity, followed the same year by Hell Up in Harlem."-© Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

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Monday, August 11, 2008

The Cave of Silken Web

The Cave of Silken Web (1967)
Director: Ho Meng-Hua
Starring: Ho Fan, Peng Peng, Angela Yu Chien, Shen Yi
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"The popular Journey to the West series continues with this installment that finds Monkey, Pig, and Friar Sand joining their master Xuanzhang in a battle against the siren-like Seven Spiders - who are convinced that they can live forever by feeding on the flesh of monks."-© Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1981)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"The townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible 'accidents,' and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. But when suspicion falls on a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead, the grisly deaths take on a sinister twist. Is a deranged murderer on the loose, or is an even more shocking evil silently stalking in the night?"

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Portrait In Crystal

Portrait In Crystal (1983)
Director: Hua Shan
Starring: Jason Pai Piao
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Hua Shan combined the skills of directing both The Criminals trilogy as well as the superheroic Super Inframan in this "Martial Arts World" adventure of a mystical mass murderer loose in the underworld.

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Pai Piao discovers that the killings are the work of a living statue trained to assassinate by the title demon … and that more murderous statues are on their way if he doesn't stop them. The poison darts and booby traps keep flying in this unusual and popular epic."

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