Horror

Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Hirô Matsuda based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1973
Japanese title: Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya

Bird of Prey, Bird of Retaliation

Nami Matsushima (aka Sasori aka Scorpion) is loose in the city streets, continuing her frantic quest for freedom. Driven by her instinct for survival and desire to lead a normal life. Having fled from prison once again, she will now enter an urban world of crime & prostitution, while being hunted down by a one-armed cop out for revenge.

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Director: Allan Holzman
Writer: Tim Curnen, Jim Wynorski and R.J. Robertson
Release year: 1982

A world full of pleasures. The guilty kind.

The members of an isolated research facility on a distant planet in a galaxy far, far away have gotten themselves in a bit of trouble. A genetic experiment did not go according plan. These things rarely do go down as planned and scientists will never learn not to meddle with things they shouldn’t be meddling with. Now some alien hybrid-thing is lose and it’s growing. Not only in size, but also with appetite. A federation marshal is sent in to prevent the scientist from becoming late night monster snacks.

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Director: Roger Earl
Writers: Laurei I. Lee & Dorothee Psaw
Release Year: 1983

And people say Twilight is gay…

Count Gaylord (Tim Kramer) and his servant Boris (Rand Remington) head to Los Angeles after one of the Count’s converts, the Marquis de Suede (Steve Collins) appears there. There’s a hell of a lot more gay sex than plot, which makes it a lot harder … tougher to discuss this one than usual. Not because there’s anything wrong with gayness, but when a film is 93% scenes of sexual activity, there’s painfully little plot left….

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Director: Paul Solet
Writer: Paul Solet
Release year: 2009

Not Without My Bloodthirsty Daughter

Madeline is pregnant, and that’s all that matters to her. She’ll give birth, one way or the other, dead or alive. Actually, dead and alive. The newborn baby, that is.

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Director: David DeCoteau
Writer: Arne Olsen
Release Year: 2007

That’s a beautiful bear. I want one too.

I desperately try to not watch one single David DeCoteau movie every year, yet for some reason I always seem to end up watching one of them every single year. This has been going on for some years now. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.

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