Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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Vomitron
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Writer: Hangan Oguri
Release year: 2009
Japanese title: Yomigaeri No Chi
Simply beyond and back, with the sound of rock.
Japan during the middle ages, a time when mysticism and dark overlords still ruled the land. A deviant tyrant, master of a ruthless clan, calls on a respectable masseur to ease his physical burdens. The masseur agrees to help, and for this he pays with his life. But his refusal to enter the hereafter, has him coming back as a ‘hungry ghost’ to take care of unfinished business…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Reviews Tags: Afterlife, Rebirth, Sacrifice, Transcendence
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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Vomitron
Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco
Release year: 1977
German title: Greta – Haus Ohne Männer
Germo-Latino tabsploitation
Abbie Phillips (Tania Busselier) suspects her sister – lets call her Sophie, shall we? – is being mistreated in a mental hospital. When she looses all contact with Sophie, she comes up with a plan to have herself committed to the asylum by Dr. Arcos (Jess Franco), who on his terms also suspects foul play within the walls of the institute. That’s her way to try and find out what happened to her sister. With holding the friendly Dr. Arcos at gunpoint while explaining her idea, you can already suspect that she didn’t think things through properly, let alone this being one of the more clever ideas she ever came up with. A poor girl with a plan doomed to failure, as the place she so desperately wants to get into is run be Greta (that’s Ilsa, the She Wolf of the SS re-incarnated as the exact spitting image of Dyanne Thorne), a very nasty warden who’s only joy in life seems to be torturing women, throwing depraved sex & rape parties, playing vicious S&M games and a bit of that good old killing for pleasure too.
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Drama, Horror, Reviews Tags: Euro Horror, Exploitation, Lesbians, Sexploitation, Slaves, Sleaze, Torture, Trash, Women In Prison
Friday, March 5th, 2010
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Vomitron
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda based on a manga by Yoshiie Gouda
Release year: 2009
Japanese title: Kûki Ningyô
Cold hands, warm heart
Hirokazu Koreeda already gained critical acclaim with splendid features like After Life (1998) and Nobody Knows (2004). In his latest, Air Doll, Korean actress Du-Na Bae (Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance & The Host) portrays an inflatable sex doll that grows a heart – technically, it’s something closer to a soul and a conscious – leaves her natural bedroom habitat and sets off into the city to discover what life has to offer (and very much unaware of it all). She finds her way to a video store. By far not the worst place to start with your first job.
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Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Reviews Tags: Existential, Transcendence, Transformation
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
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Severed Survival
Director: Eddie Nicart
Writer: Cora Cabelles
Release Year: 1981
Making a monkey out of the forces of evil
Dr. Kohler is kidnapped upon his arrival in the Philippines by an evil organization headed by the enigmatic Mr. Giant. It seems the good doctor invented a little something called an N-bomb and Mr. Giant wants to use it to hold the world hostage. Enter Agent 00 (Ernesto de la Cruz aka Weng Weng), a 2′9″ super spy who is sent to thwart the syndicate that is filled with loudly dressed, drug dealing, incompetent mooks. Agent 00 uses his skills of seduction and partners up with various women (some more than others) before working with Irma (Beth Sandoval), a female agent who has infiltrated the organization. The two join to mount an all out assault to foil Mr. Giant and his numbskull minions’ plan of world domination.
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Action, Reviews Tags: Dwarfsploitation, Exploitation, Midgets, Parody, Secret Agents
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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Vomitron
Director: Alberto De Martino (as Herbert Martin)
Writer: Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino and Alberto De Martino
Release year: 1985
Quite an amazing piece of utter nonsense
Reporter Graig Milford (David Warbeck) has seen it all… Vietnam war crimes, cannibal tribes, political shenanigans and what not else. It’s all fine by him and nowadays he’s comfortable working for television in Miami. After interviewing Dr. Schweiker ‘The Nazi’ (Sergio Rossi) about a scientific breakthrough, involving the solution to a puzzling enigma of genetic engeneering, he gets permission to hang around the lab to shoot some additional footage of the newly bred organism. Milford doesn’t mind, so hanging around the lab is what he does. But an accidental electrocution causes the tiny organism – which looks like strawberry-flavored jelly pudding sprinkled with bits of puke – to die… briefly, as it comes back to life seconds later. But then, suddenly, the room is filled with ghostly imagery and eerie moaning sounds. What the hell? Luckily, Milford still had his camera rolling…
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Action, Horror, Reviews, Science Fiction Tags: Aliens, Invasion, Psychokinesis, Supernatural
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
