Beware scaless manling, for the Sleaze-A-Saurus has unearthed even more radioactive trash cinema for your internet viewing pleasure! Coming in August, William "The King Of Cartoons" Marshall in the sequel to Blacula ... the bone-chilling Scream, Blacula, Scream! (1973). Plus, Canadian director Thomas Newman proves that genre confusion is what genre confusion does in Bong Of The Dead (2009).
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In the futuristic of year of 2000 road rage is America's fastest flowing blood sport.
The original Death Race 2000 (1975) remains an awesome Roger Corman fantasy-violence epic. Death Race stars Sylvester Stallone, before Rocky and Rambo, as Machine Gun Joe while Kung Fu and Kill Bill's David Carradine stars as the eccentric cyborg Frankenstein - the movie also co-stars Mary Woronov whose credits include Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), Chopping Mall (1986) and Prison-A-Go-Go! (2003).
Tons of unnecessary neo-Apocalyptic heavy shit takes place in an American dictatorship where all out Vehicular Manslaughter is the country's most revered sport. In fact, the Death Race takes place in the city streets of America, where racers battle for points by making Kills. These Kills are dutifully recorded in the best of CBS's Wide World of Sports telegraphics tradition with a scoreboard that contains outlines of deceased nurses, the elderly and of course fellow Death Race drivers.
This script comes from long-time exploitation writer Charles Griffith, who started working with Corman on the wretched Monster From The Sea Floor (1954). Griffith's screen play takes a campy approach into state-sanctioned Vehicular Manslaughter as a society wide spectator sport.
Sister Street Fighter teams up with Sonny Chiba to face Reiko Ike and Jun Jo.
Sonny Chiba, reprising his role as Terry "#1 Man" Tsurugi appears for the second half this great chop sockey/crime-action movie. Production values are slightly better with more characters and Toei studio actors appearing including a hokey Hong Kong heroin boss and Japanese actress and model Reiko Ike. It should be noted that Reiko Ike was a cult persona herself. Reiko had also co-starred in Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974) with Chiba as well as two very successful "pinky" (Japsploitation) movies: The Sex And Fury (1973) and Female Yakuza Tale (1971).
In Sister Street Fighter, Jun Jo, minus the trach box from Return of Sreet Fighter appears as another different-but-still-evil karate master-villain in another blockbuster kung fu epic. This film was followed by The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974), which featured much higher production values as the genre earned more money for Toei and international distributors.
Every infamous Hollywood villain BUT the Sleaze-A-Saurus? The sheer nerve of these arrogant manlings!
A really, rea-a-lly good site for all things Krueger, Kruug, Leatherface, Vorhees and many more obscure-o cinematic slashers can be found at Retro Slashers. A team of writers and designers have put together an exhaustive database of horror, giallo, zombie, andmaniac films (w/collectibles!) as a top shelf resource for all fans of gore and splatter movies.
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First, came Black Samson. Now: Chinese Hercules... God bless you, Mr. B-movie script writer.
“Kill ‘em. Dump ‘em.” So sez perennial Kung-Fu baddie Bolo Heung in Chinese Hercules (1973) - a meditation on the ageless value of chop sockey in on-going labor disputes that gave future Transporter (2002) and DOA: Dead Or Alive (2006) director Corey Yuen Kwai his start as a Fight Co-Ordinator.
Bolo "The Beast From The East" Yeung, co-villain of Chinese Hercules, was long known as the Arnold Schwarzenegger of China. Over his long film career Bolo repeatedly portrayed himself as a kind of an evil doppelganger to the Governator whose punchlines usually erupted in bloody clouds instead of dim-witted one liners.
In fact, Bolo became a marital arts student at 10, trained w/good friend Bruce Lee and was a body-building legend in Hong Kong in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He appeared in Enter the Dragon (1973), Bloodsport (1988) and Double Impact (1991) and has a part in The Expendables II set for a 2012 release...
Today, Bolo, now a full-fledged imperialist citizen, lives and works as a fight trainer in his own gyms in LA.
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